What is the role of mythology in theater? What is the role of the document, of the act of witnessing? How can the two combine to reach the deeper personal and artistic truths in a time and place of crisis, and what happens when that place is both you …Read more
“Bi” the webseries premiered last week on YouTube, offering a refreshing look at otherwise unspoken subjects including New York youths, race, and Bisexuality. We met with writer and creator David Cork to talk about the show. What inspired you to make …Read more
When I sat down the other day with Steven Gallagher, I made up my mind to be a doofus. (Yes, sometimes it is a choice.) More exactly, I determined to ask the obvious, and from the get-go: just how much of his extraordinary Stealing Sam is autobiograp …Read more
In Grind writer/director Zachary Halley poses the question: do we ever really know who we’re talking to? Using a Grindr-like app to frame his story, he introduces us to the awkward, but brilliant Vincent (Anthony Rapp) and model Thane (Pasha Pellosie …Read more
Who knew that if it wasn’t for Robert Redford we wouldn’t have Spring Awakening, The Light in the Piazza, Fun Home or A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder? Yes, that Robert Redford, the same guy who made Barbra swoon in The Way We Were and who won …Read more
On a rainy Thursday, we sat down to catch up with Craig muMs Grant, fresh off his critically acclaimed one man show, A Sucker Emcee at Labyrinth Theater (now playing through October 5th). Grant may be the busiest man in the Bronx but he took a few mo …Read more
#1 – See her in-person October 5th! More info at bottom of this article! Marge’s father, Ernest Belcher, worked with Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett. He did the opening shows at the Hollywood Bowl. Marge made her debut at the Bowl at age 11. …Read more
PigPen Theatre Co. returns to New York City this Fall to open the New Victory 2014-15 season with their acclaimed production of The Old Man and the Old Moon, an original, epic tale about a man who must abandon his duties of filling up the moon with l …Read more
Everyone knows the story of the three blind men and the elephant. As ablest as it may be (which it is), the metaphor points to one invaluable truth: E Pluribus Unim. Out of many, comes one. In I Like to Be Here: Jackson Heights Revisited, or, This is …Read more
Having been completely charmed by Deborah Berenson’s performance in Sex, Lies and Earl Grey at the New York International Fringe Festival, I was literally bouncing in my shoes when I heard that she’d been chosen for the Fringe Encore performances. I …Read more
