Well here's a how-de-do! You have a theatre company named Bedlam, and I think that's the very last thing you'd want in an adaptation of a Jane Austen novel! Shakespeare's language can take that kind of onslaught, as proved in Bedlam's Twelfth Night, but Austen? Not to put down Jane (or Wil...
The burlesque scene in New York is an especially vibrant place, a place I do not often frequent, although in the handful of times I have journeyed forth, I have had the best time, and SwitchNPlay's event at Brooklyn's Branded Saloon was no exception. It was a somewhat special night—the first ti...
Doomocracy's dystopian perspective seems awfully close-at-hand with an election just around the corner! Skillfully situated in the Brooklyn Army Terminal, with it's concrete balconies and disused train cars, this intense production of a potentially fast-approaching future was a treat to watch and p...
My friend, Charles Ward, had kindly invited me to the New Yorker Festival (October 7-9), to be in the audience of an interview/talkback with Jay and Mark Duplass (HBO's 'Togetherness' amongst many others). As the lights lowered Charles elbowed me to notify me of our snafu—we were in the wrong theatr...
Many moons ago, I sat in a theatre with my business partner as guests of the Obie awards. I believe it was 2007. One of the winning shows, for music & lyrics, was 'In The Heights' by Lin-Manuel Miranda. I had not yet seen the show, I did not know who this gentleman was. My business partner reminded...
The quote, taken from my latest directorial escapade, 'Tales from the Trundle', just opened as part of the 7th Annual United Solo Festival at Theatre Row here in New York. Starring and written by the fabulous Francesca Van Horne, the play tells the story of a mother’s survival from a...
