'Sylvia' play barks up the wrong tree with boisterous doggy love plot

If you came into this play thinking it would be about poet Sylvia Plath, you would be sorely mistaken.

“Sylvia” is not about the suicidal poet, but rather a dog, and a feisty one at that. Playing at the Edgemar Center for the Arts till July 10, “Sylvia” is a comedy about Greg (Stephen Howard), a middle-aged man seeking solace in a stray dog named Sylvia, played with an overbearing neediness by Tanna Frederick.

Students to get down with Coachella group Thao with The Get Down Stay Down at Royce Hall

This year was the first time the band Thao with The Get Down Stay Down performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and the thing that the band’s vocalist and guitarist, Thao Nguyen, said surprised her the most was the number of celebrity attendees.