{"id":527,"date":"2011-09-13T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c3northampton.org\/?p=527"},"modified":"2015-07-28T02:46:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:46:37","slug":"losing-my-religion-at-noho-center-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Losing My Religion at Noho Center for the Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/c3northampton.org\/?attachment_id=533\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-533\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-533 size-medium\" title=\"Losing My Religion\" src=\"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fringe_postcard_front_updated-590x401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fringe_postcard_front_updated-590x401.jpg 590w, http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/fringe_postcard_front_updated.jpg 938w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>One Night Only!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>C3 collective member Seth Lepore will performing his award-winning show <strong><em>Losing My Religion: Confessions of a New Age Refugee<\/em><\/strong> at Northampton Center for the Arts on Friday September 16hth at 8:00 PM. The show is a hysterical romp through America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spiritual enterprise exposing the blurry line between self-help and faith. Yoga gurus, healthy chocolate peddlers and Buddhists with God complexes ego-trip their way toward absurdity.<\/p>\n<p>Lepore is returning home after an incredibly successful summer tour of the Fringe circuit, winning an Encore Award at the Minnesota Fringe Festival and garnering stellar reviews. One Night Only!!<\/p>\n<p>There are special discount tickets available to readers of the C3 blog for $10 each until Wednesday 9\/14 at midnight. <a title=\"Tickets\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpapertickets.com\/event\/165899\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> and when purchasing tickets enter the discount code\u00c2\u00a0<strong>LOSINGIT\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>and you&#8217;ll see the C3 Special price!<\/p>\n<p>This program is supported in part by a grant from the Northampton Arts Council, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Co-sponsored by C3.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Part of your brain is reminding you that this is a\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 show mocking exploitative &#8220;self-help&#8221; programs, but another part will be telling you to sign up for what the gurus are offering. That&#8217;s the strange danger of these characters, and Lepore conveys it with a precise, polished, unfailingly entertaining performance.&#8221;<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Twin Cities Daily Planet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;[Lepore]\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 shows the perils of trying to embark on a spiritual journey when you have the intensity of a true believer but the direction of a lost soul\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 [and] shows off his integrity as a writer, directing the audience\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s laughter at a commentary on the faux-spirituality industry, rather than the motivations of people who buy into it.&#8221;<\/em> <strong>DCtheatrescene.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lepore comes across a lone, common-man hero\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Possessing a rubber-faced ability to slide cleanly into character and deadly accurate powers of observation, Lepore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s acting is integral to the success of [the piece] and worth the price of admission alone.&#8221;<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Brattleboro Reformer<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; One Night Only!! C3 collective member Seth Lepore will performing his award-winning show Losing My Religion: Confessions of a New Age Refugee at Northampton Center for the Arts on Friday September 16hth at 8:00 PM. The show is a hysterical romp through America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spiritual enterprise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,20],"tags":[27,26,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/c3artscollective.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}