Believe it or not, it’s been over a year since I’ve been on a stage. Yup, one whole year (and a summer) since Shane Nickerson organized the first L.A. blogger performance thingy I’d ever heard of, “Subject Line Here.” Since then, Leah Peterson of LeahPeah has taken on the heinous task of riding nerd herd [...]
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A rare personal plug for a rare personal appearance onstage: Me. As Tanya, the Whore. THE STRIP. Satiddy night. Details posted at blogging.la. Be there or be a snatch-sniffin’, crank-smokin’, degenerate hillybilly sister-daughter. xxx c Photo by John Zalewski.
TO: Colleen Wainwright [email redacted] FROM: Sidney [email redacted] DATE: November 1, 2005 SUBJECT: (no subject) Margie, I am looking for a brilliant Mormon composer to write the score for “An American Prophet,” a wonderful, touching, and quite factual show about Joseph Smith and his book of Mormon; Perhaps the most important musical about Mormon [...]
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Hot chicks, cool cats – 20 bucks
My theater company, Evidence Room, turned 10 this year. We’re celebrating with a kick-ass event/show/party tonight, tomorrow and Sunday: a live radio-concert restaging of our hit pulp/noir classic, No Orchids for Miss Blandish, by James Hadley Chase. Lots of cocktails, live music and aforementioned hot chicks/cool cats (theater company + L.A. = lots of good-looking [...]
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Closer to Python: My Mike Nichols Day, Part II
As I’m currently in the process of converting a play with music into a musical play, I’m newly fascinated by musical theater, especially the newer forms cropping up today: Avenue Q, Caroline or Change, all of Ken Roht‘s work, the Ramayana 2K4, which I guess better start calling itself R2K5 so it doesn’t sign its [...]
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Pee at Bob’s
Only two weekends left to catch the funniest filthy show of the season (as opposed to the funniest clean show of the season, which also runs for two more weekends). Bob’s Holiday Office Party is hilarious from start to finish. The actual show runs just over an hour, but with the (masterful) ad libbing I’ve [...]
One of the 99¢ show‘s Weird Family was out with strep throat tonight, so a longtime friend of and dramaturg for Orphean Circus gamely stepped in for him tonight at a moment’s notice. (I swear, they’re dropping like flies, it’s starting to sound like a TB ward in that dressing room.) We were all a [...]
It’s official: the “real” media have declared Peace Squad Goes 99: The Greatest 99¢ Only Story Ever Told…Ever!, a.k.a. “the 99¢ show”, a hit. We got a thumbs-up review in today’s L.A. Times. There was also an excellent feature in yesterday’s Times in which my gal Heseon Park catalogues her 99¢ experience from the Wine [...]
One of my continual frustrations as a theater rat with a scrabbly foot in the design world is the unforgivable lack of pretty in most show flyers. They’ll pay the lighting designer, they’ll pay the costume designer, they’ll sure as shit pay the director, they’ll get everything on stage looking Sunday-go-to-meetin’ purty, and then crap [...]
