Didja hear? Avenue Q is coming back to town! The Tony Award-winning Best Musical will be playing the Orpheum from February 15 to February 27. Get tickets here. With that, here's a clip from the original Broadway production of the tune "If You Were Gay." Here's some clearer audio, if you like, and you might also enjoy "The Internet Was Made for Porn." more ›

This particular spoof episode of the 1970s British children's show "Rainbow" is real (not over-dubbed, like so much of such similar material on YouTube), but it never went on air for the public. It was made as an inside joke at Thames TV, for a company holiday party, and only made it onto the extra-small screen for our enjoyment in the last couple of years. BTW, we're totally going to start saying "twanger" now. more ›

La Liberazione di Ruggiero is arguably the first opera written by a woman, and features strong feminist themes and a challenge to patriarchal society, but honestly, they had us at Puppet Opera. And not just any kind of puppets: three foot tall, forty pound puppets from Sicily, getting into sword fights and romance. It is actually quite common that your opera singers act stiff and wooden, and these puppets are no exception. more ›