RoboFudge Chris Blasucci & Cris Hazzard

Romance of Many Dimensions employs cockfighting as a metaphor to explore the politics of theatre, performance, and games in contemporary society. By displacing these questions onto the arena of cockfighting, ideas about gameness (being trained to fight beyond pain), masculinity, control, accumulation and violence can be addressed indirectly. The series questions how situations in everyday life—such as how we act, speak and relate to one another—can be staged and performed. By resorting to the violence of cockfighting and its associated gambling (and profits for the animals’ owners) the work interrogates the rules that govern such a staging, prompting a consideration of the rituals of performance and spectatorship more broadly.

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Amy Cole has her entire life mapped out by her mother, Catherine. Finish high school, attend Juilliard School in New York and become a famous concert violinist. Amy reluctantly agrees to her mother’s plans. Everything changes during summer break after her junior year of high school. That’s when she meets Mason at Carolina Beach. Mason is most unique guy she has ever known. Their innocent summer romance evolves into falling deeply in love.

Amy and Mason are subjected to a series of schemes orchestrated by her mother to end their relationship. They are eventually torn apart.

Years later, Mason receives a mysterious letter written by Amy’s aunt. The letter sends Mason on a quest to visit a mailbox on a beach Amy spoke frequently about. Known as Kindred Spirit at Sunset Beach, Amy and her aunt would frequently visit the mailbox to read the expressions of love and loss left by people from all over the world. What will happen when Mason accepts the letter’s request to be at the Kindred Spirit Mailbox on a certain day and time? It’s an ending that will stay with you a long time.


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Jack, a social outcast, is thrust out of his comfort zone when the outside world bangs on his door and he can't contain his violent past.. Jack's in a rut. Depression and severe anti-social behavior has whittled down his existence to sleeping and watching television. He spends his days in a diner, playing church bingo and sleeping. When some hired thugs show up Jack's life is stirred up and the question of his existence comes to light.


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Marvin Lee Aday was a singer and occasional actor who, for reasons never definitively answered, recorded under the name Meat Loaf. In all likelihood a childhood nickname, the tag stuck, and many puns followed as the performer -- who tipped the scales at well over 300 pounds -- became one of the biggest chart acts of the 1970s before enjoying a commercial renaissance two decades later.

Meat Loaf was born in Dallas, TX. The product of a family of gospel singers, he moved to Los Angeles in 1967 and formed a group known as both Meat Loaf Soul and Popcorn Blizzard. The band earned some renown through opening gigs in support of the Who, the Stooges, and Ted Nugent before Meat Loaf won a role in a West Coast production of the musical Hair. During a tour stop in Detroit, he and a fellow castmate named Stoney teamed to record the 1971 LP Stoney & Meat Loaf for Motown's Rare Earth imprint.

After a tenure in the off-Broadway production Rainbow (In New York), Meat Loaf earned a slot in More Than You Deserve, a musical written by classically trained pianist Jim Steinman. An appearance in the cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show followed, and in 1976 Meat Loaf also handled vocal duties on one side of Nugent's LP Free-for-All. Soon, Meat Loaf reteamed with Steinman for a tour with the National Lampoon Road Show, after which Steinman began composing a musical update of the Peter Pan story titled Never Land.

Ultimately, much of what Steinman composed for Never Land became absorbed into 1977's Bat Out of Hell, the album that made Meat Loaf a star. Produced by Todd Rundgren, the record was pure melodrama, a teen rock opera that spawned three Top 40 singles -- "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," and "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" -- on its way to becoming one of the best-selling albums of the decade.

A sequel was planned, but in 1981 Steinman issued his own solo debut, Bad for Good. After Meat Loaf released his own follow-up, Dead Ringer, rumors began flying, and it was reported that Loaf had been unable to record the songs that comprised the Steinman album due to physical and emotional problems. Eventually, Steinman filed suit against Meat Loaf and his label, Epic, and none of his songs appeared on the 1983 Meat Loaf effort Midnight at the Lost and Found. After subsequent records like 1984's Bad Attitude and 1986's Blind Before I Stop bombed, the singer declared bankruptcy and began physical and psychological rehabilitation to restore his road-ravaged voice.

After several years in relative obscurity, Meat Loaf and Steinman reunited in 1993 for Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, which continued the original's story line and duplicated its thunderous sound. The follow-up proved almost as successful as the first Bat Out of Hell, selling over five million copies and yielding a massive hit single with "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)." Without Steinman, he returned in 1995 with Welcome to the Neighborhood. The career-long concert compilation Live Around the World followed one year later, but Meat Loaf released no more new material until well into the 2000s. Finally he recorded Couldn't Have Said It Better, which was released on Sanctuary in 2003. Three years later, after resolving the disputes surrounding its release, Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose came out -- sans Steinman, though many of his songs were used, which was what caused the problems in the first place -- tracks from which were added to the production of Loaf's Bat Out of Hell play.


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Jean-Georges arrives in the Golden State with a collection of his finest dishes from New York City and beyond.

Breakfast is a modern twist on the traditional, featuring buttermilk pancakes, fluffy omelets, coconut and chia seed pudding, and acai bowls. Enjoy lunch and dinner in a sunlit space surrounded by a sprawling passionfruit vine-coveredterrace. The seasonal menu includes caviar creations, raw dishes, soups, salads, pizzas, and pasta.

You can dine with us indoors or out, or book a private room that accommodates up to 25 people.


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As a Baltimore cop, Nate Burke watched his partner die on the street—and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepted the job as Chief of Police in a tiny, remote Alaskan town with the hopes of starting over. Despite the name, Lunacy provides a balm for Nate's shattered soul—and an unexpected affair with pilot Meg Galloway warms his nights...


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