Craig Roberts and Alexandra Socha in Red Oaks. You can count on plenty of hair spray, belted leotards, and Billy Ocean songs, but Amazon’s new ’80s-set comedy Red Oaks won’t hit you over the head with a Rubik’s cube. The colorful era simply serves as the backdrop to a charming, romantic story that unfolds in pre-snark times.
Remember those days? Red Oaks co-creators Greg Jacobs and Joe Gangemi sure do. When they were selling the coming-of-age story of college student David Meyer (Craig Roberts), who takes a summer job at a New Jersey country club as a tennis pro in 1985, the producers pitched it as “Caddyshack meets The Graduate. Read More...
OperaReviewLinbury theatre, London
Oliver Mears’s production emphasises the underlying outrage at the centre of Benjamin Britten’s 1946 opera A co-production between the Royal Opera and Britten Pears Arts, Oliver Mears’s new production of Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia was first seen at Snape Maltings last month, before transferring to the Linbury for its London run. It’s a disquieting, uncompromising piece of theatre, though whether Mears succeeds in resolving the dichotomies at the work’s centre is debatable. Read More...
Net worth
Find out what Danny Merk, owner of the famed 'Jersey Shore' Shore Store, is valued at in terms of net worth. Published on June 17, 2020 2 min read Danny Merk first became famous when he rented his home out to eight strangers. Little did he know that the MTV reality series Jersey Shore would become so successful. Find out how much the Jersey Shore entrepreneur is worth.
Danny didn’t think ‘Jersey Shore’ was going to happen Merk has always been a businessman. Read More...