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Duo Baldo a delightful mesh of comedy and classical music

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As seen in Asheville Citizen Times / Scene, Nov. 15, 2024 In 2002, in a small town on the outskirts of Florence, Italy, American violinist Brad Repp walked into a quaint cafe and met pianist and aspiring actor Aldo Gentileschi. At the time, they couldn’t have possibly anticipated what the next 22 years would bring […]

Blessed be the punchlines: Dubac’s ‘Stand-Up Jesus’ preaches the miracles of laughter 

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–as seen in Asheville Citizen Times / Scene, April 26, 2024. Jesus of Nazareth returns after 2,000 years, but this time he’s no carpenter: He’s a stand-up comedian — one who, strangely, bears a striking resemblance to writer, actor and comic Robert Dubac. Asheville audiences may remember Dubac from his previous performance, “The Book of Moron,” […]

Laughing at life’s absurdities: An interview with Cathy Ladman

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On a Thursday morning in February, stand-up comedian Cathy Ladman was scrolling through the Notes app on her phone, stopping to read aloud her most nonsensical self-reminders — comically brief and vague, joke-adjacent, but with long-forgotten punchlines.  “I mean, here I just wrote a title: ‘Forgetting Things.’ That’s it. That’s all I wrote. Ridiculous!” she […]