Poster illustration by Jeff Lewoncyzk.
Spell has closed, and rehearsal for Lord Oxford Presents the Second American Revolution, Live! has begun. Wall to wall talent in the cast: Gyda Arber, Lynn Berg, Audrey Crabtree, Rasheed Hinds, Robert Honeywell, Iracel Rivero, Alyssa Simon. Orchestrations by Matt Van Brink. Developed with Sue Morrison. Written and composed by Robert Honeywell. Directed by me(!)
Notes from Underground closes this Saturday. I wish we could extend our run. We're completely sold out, but there are a small number of tickets released each night at 7:45pm to walk-ins.
The Voice and nytheatre.com and The Brooklyn Paper love us, Time Out and Backstage don't. Divisive! Dostoyevsky would be so proud.
Notes from Underground opens on Friday, 15 February. I'm terribly proud of this one. Startling, intense, funny. Also, the tagline "limited and uncomfortable seating" is not hyberbole. Reserve in advance, and don't come if you're claustrophobic.
Lit by fire! And bile!
I'm participating in week 45 the 365 Days/365 Plays project. Two pieces I've directed (!) are at the Public Theater on Sunday, 14 October. Tickets are free.
Every Play Ever Written is a hit! The Times call us "gleefully funny" and nytheatre.com raves.
Come see me in The Pretentious Festival (blog, movie)!
I'm in two shows - Lisa Ferber & Paul Nelson's new musical Dinner at Precisely 8:13 and a theatrical lecture entitled Every Play Ever Written: A Distillation of the Essence of Theatre. The former is delightful, the latter is the most important play ever produced. Ahem. Tickets.
Would that all photo shoots were this fun. The Brick's Pretentious Festival, as photographed by Tim Brown.
Goofballery above committed by me, Robert Honeywell, Berit Johnson, and Jason Robert Bell.
Created by Clove Galilee and Jenny Rogers.
Thursday - Sunday, January 25 - 28th. HERE Arts Center.
Wicketstickets on sale now! With only 4 performances (and only 55 seats), the show is already selling out. And how could it not? - it's Fefu and her Friends set on a jetliner. You, the audience, sit inside a plane (first, business, or coach - arrive early for your choice). We, the actresses, are your stewardesses, and we perform the play around you while serving drinks and snacks. We have drink carts, safety demonstrations and feminist discourse. Watch video of me from August's showing.
Mountain Hotel and The Brick. Identity is a small price to pay for happiness.
(Update: Really thoughtful review at nytheatre.com. And President Havel changed his mind about his own play after visiting our production!)
Gyda Arber, Fred Backus, Danny Bowes, Bryan Enk, Robert Honeywell, Heath Kelts, Devon Ludlow, Michael Marion, Alanna Medlock, R. David Robinson, Alyssa Simon, Moira Stone and Art Wallace.
how to disappear completely performs Friday & Saturday, November 3rd & 4th, in Baltimore at the Creative Alliance.
Still Life is having its premiere on Sunday, 29 October at the Anthology Film Archives as part of the Sinister Six. It was a risky and difficult project; please do come.
I've just started work on Vaclev Havel's The Mountain Hotel, an English-language premiere in Untitled Theatre Co. #61's Havel Festival.
I'm filming Daniel McKleinfeld's Still Life. I play a schizophrenic woman in the middle of a breakdown. I'd say it's Oscar bait, but 8-minute art films don't get noticed by the Academy, do they?
Greed: A Musical Love $tory returns! After our hit run during The $ellout Festival in July, Lindy, Anna Nicole, Joyce, Yeats and J. Howard Smith come back for another go around. See me in the performance that landed me in Time Out.
Wickets. It's Fornes' Fefu and her Friends ... on a plane. I play Fefu, your head stewardess, in this deconstruction/adaptation set on a 1970s jetliner. You sit in coach, business or first class. The actresses are your stewardesses. We wear outfits. We serve drinks and snacks. Indeed. HERE/Mabou Mines artists Jenny Rogers and Clove Galilee are the masterminds and this is only the first showing in what will be an 18 month development process. Two nights only at P.S.122 - Aug 26 & 28. Call 212.529.8696 for reservations.
I've started rehearsal for the dance(!) theatre piece how to disappear completely with Sarah Seely's acclaimed company movement addiction. We'll perform in Baltimore in November and here in New York in 2007.
Greed: A Musical Love $tory. Rapturous reviews. Perplexed audiences. Good times.
Come to The Brick Theater for The $ellout Festival and see me hold the stage for 68 minutes of singing, dancing, accounting fraud, existential crisis, and boobs. Also, Irish poetry. Also, Chinese food. Also, "one of the best new musicals in town..."
Bryan Enk, Gyda Arber, Michael O'Brien, Robert Honeywell, and me. Photo by Sarah Lippmann.
Very exciting. Come to the Metropolitan Museum to see me sing with Steve Ross in A Tribute to Dietz & Schwartz. I'll be appearing alongside Steve, KT Sullivan and Jean Brassard. I'm sinking my my teeth into some gorgeous, and largely forgotten, music. May 16, 8pm. Tickets at 212-570-3956.
Richard Foreman's Symphony of Rats and Film is Evil: Radio is Good in rep at The Brick Theater. Great reviews, most markedly in the later, where I'm dubbed a "fascist temptress."
Roger Nasser, Bryan Enk, Adam Swiderski, Alyssa Simon, Amy Carr, Peter Bean, Carrie Johnson and me. Photo by Ian W. Hill
Peter Bean & me. Photo by Ian W. Hill.
