Naperville's Summer Place Theatre Reveals NEWSIES Cast
by Stephi Wild - May 30, 2023
Tickets are now on sale for 'NEWSIES' at Summer Place Theatre in Naperville. 'NEWSIES' opens July 21 and runs 3 weekends in Naperville Central High School's Auditorium. Season, VIP, and Individual tickets can be purchased now
Review: SUMMER + SMOKE at Tennessee Williams Threatre Company
by Tara Bennett - Aug 15, 2022
Beautiful and compelling; will have you in its grip. An emotionally rich production of an unsung work from Tennessee Williams's canon is making waves through the Crescent City with the Tennessee Williams Theatre Company's production of SUMMER + SMOKE.
Striking Matches Release Genre-Bending New Single BORING
by Tori Hartshorn - Jul 22, 2019
Today, genre-defying duo Sarah Zimmermann and Justin Davis, better known as Striking Matches are releasing the first single/lyric video off their upcoming EP, Noon. 'Boring' hits the band at a time where they are fully leaning into their inability to be confined to one genre. 'As we've grown and found ourselves, we've realized that people call us a lot of different things..rock, blues, country, alt-pop, and then some...and truthfully, we LOVE that. We get to live in so many different worlds and experience so many different things, that instead of shying away and trying to fit in someone else's box, we've just made our own,' the band says. Last week, the duo announced their upcoming EP Noon, the second in a series of three releases due out in 2019
Ceremony Reveal Video For New Album's Title Track IN THE SPIRIT WORLD NOW
by Tori Hartshorn - Jul 17, 2019
Today, Ceremony reveal their new video and album title track, 'In the Spirit World Now'. Front man and lyricist Ross Farrar explains, 'The spirit world came about through the reading of Saul Bellow's 'Humboldt's Gift'. The novel's fictitious character, Von Humboldt Fleisher, writes a long letter to the protagonist, Charlie Citrine, which announces, We are not natural beings, but supernatural beings. I understood it as a moment of praise and ran away with it.'
Striking Matches Release New EP 'Morning'
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 6, 2019
Hot on the heels of their performance at Nashville's behemoth NFL Draft Experience, the songwriting duo of Sarah Zimmermann and Justin Davis, better known as Striking Matches, have just released their new EP Morning, the first in a series of three releases due out in 2019. Morning is the first release after a tumultuous year of setbacks for the duo, most notably their departure from Capitol Records. “2018 was a challenging year for us in many ways, but I think sometimes you have to have trials and hurdles to overcome in order to find your best self,” says Zimmermann. “It pushed us, hard, but it also allowed us to be artists and reconnect with ourselves and what we do, and what makes us, us.” Stream Morning here.