And why would you want to? “The Unfortunates,” as seen at its Thursday, Feb. 18, press opening at ACT’s Strand Theater, is musical theater as an unpretentiously homemade delight. It’s ...

The siren song of the blues leads us to the promised land in “The Unfortunates.” A wonderfully demented antiwar parable steeped in Louis Armstrong’s classic “St. James Infirmary,” this ...

and sending her off to what must be her doom. It’s but one chilling and comedic instant in the dark and fantastical world of “The Unfortunates,” an unusual new musical that blends the fervor ...

Inspired by the classic and mysterious blues song, "St. James Infirmary," made famous in the 1920s by Louis Armstrong, The Unfortunates tells the story of Big Joe, a stalwart, tough-talking ...

These poor unfortunates (there but for the grace of God go I) pass through my care on a regular basis. Limited professional detachment has allowed me to remain effective at my job for 22 years.

Her first novel, "The Unfortunates," merges Old World elegance and modern irony in a brilliant social satire of life among the 1 percent of the 1 percent. The result is a novel about money and ...

The music moves in mysterious ways in “The Unfortunates.” So do the performances, in this richly imagined, slightly surreal musical folk tale. Created by Jon Beavers, Kristoffer Diaz ...

“The Unfortunates,” his most daring work, published in 1969, is now available, along with “House Mother Normal,” “Albert Angelo” (which has a hole cut into the pages to reveal a ...

We’ve included a version of the VUX diagram for The Unfortunates here. Excerpt of the user experience flow in The Unfortunates - click for full version Our other main challenge was managing the ...

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