{"id":95290,"date":"2026-07-19T21:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95290"},"modified":"2026-07-19T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T04:20:16","slug":"paranormal-hunk-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/07\/19\/paranormal-hunk-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Paranormal Hunk Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I attempted to flee Boston\u2019s <em>Emerson Colonial Theatre <\/em>in a panic after the opening night performance of the <em>Broadway<\/em>-bound play <strong><em>Paranormal Activity<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; No, the play didn\u2019t scare me.&nbsp; I just wanted to beat the crowd to the parking garage!&nbsp; And in the lobby, I ran smack dab into the <em>doyenne <\/em>of Boston\u2019s entertainment scene, <strong>Joyce Kulhawik<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cI take it you were not convinced,\u201d she said to me with a sly smile.&nbsp; That\u2019s putting it mildly.&nbsp; It truly wasn\u2019t all bad.&nbsp; Leading man <strong>Travis A. Knight <\/strong>is delightful to look at&#8230;particularly when he takes off his shirt (which happens in the first act).&nbsp; It\u2019s the script that doesn\u2019t hold up to scrutiny.&nbsp; Not that I think anyone, including the writer (<strong>Levi Holloway<\/strong>), spent much time scrutinizing it.&nbsp; It strikes me as a play written to shock audiences&#8230;and to make money.&nbsp; It will do both.&nbsp; After a laborious first act that only gets moving in the last 15 minutes, the second act is chock full of twists and turns that become less and less convincing. &nbsp;Still, it\u2019s a handsome production, there\u2019s a hot guy to look at, and you\u2019ll jump out of your seat at least once \u2013 sounds like a guy I met in Boise, but I digress.&nbsp; <em>Paranormal Activity<\/em> plays at bargain prices in Boston until July 30<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; It hits Broadway on August 14<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>We interrupt this column with a late-breaking announcement.&nbsp; <strong><em>Dancing With The Stars<\/em><\/strong> pro <strong>Gleb Savchenko <\/strong>claims that his wife abducted their kids and moved to Hong Kong.&nbsp; I\u2019m shocked!&nbsp; Gleb has kids?&nbsp; And a wife?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attempted to flee Boston\u2019s Emerson Colonial Theatre in a panic after the opening night performance of the Broadway-bound play Paranormal Activity.&nbsp; No, the play didn\u2019t scare me.&nbsp; I just wanted to beat the crowd to the parking garage!&nbsp; And in the lobby, I ran smack dab into the doyenne of Boston\u2019s entertainment scene, Joyce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95291,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95290\/revisions\/95291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}