Heidi’s Picks is a weekly selection of restaurant suggestions from Review-Journal critic Heidi Knapp Rinella.
It has, as you know, become a widespread practice for Mexican restaurants in this country to start meals with a basket of chips and a bowl (or two or three) of salsa and/or bean dip — so widespread, in fact, that the practice actually has started to spread to Mexico, if you’re interested in a little bit of coals-to-Newcastle trivia.
The news release certainly catches your eye: “What do you do when you’re a male musical theater performer with a big belting voice and an affinity for Broadway’s greatest leading ladies?” it asks. “If you’re resourceful, you create your own one-man ‘woman’ musical.”
Time to go, Shrek. Time to go far, far away — back to the land of Far Far Away — and leave us with our fond memories.
Cory Benway looks 20, but he has been performing capably as an adult in local playhouses for more than two decades. Insurgo Theater’s “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” though, releases something triumphant in him.
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