I’m about to start running lines for tonight’s performance of Love & Taxes, benefitting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. (A few tix remain! Click here for details.) Every time I do a show that I haven’t done in a while, I run the lines — usually, just to myself, in my motel room, or wherever. (Today I’m … Read more
Well, you can find out this Friday and Saturday, Aug. 6 and 7, when I’ll be doing my latest monologue, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?, at the lovely 142 Throckmorton Theatre in Marin County’s very own Mill Valley. Both performances are at 8 p.m. For tix and info, click here.
Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?, my latest collaboration with director David Dower, opens tonight (March 10) at Theater J in Washington D.C., and runs here through March 21. For each of my shows, with the help of my friends (always including Scott Rosenberg, and this time also including great suggestions from my Facebook and … Read more
What I do on stage is called “solo performance,” and people sometimes ask me (with real sympathy), “Isn’t it lonely up there?” And I tell them, emphatically, No, it isn’t! There’s my crew — up in a booth (possibly knitting during the long stretches between cues). There are all the characters in my monologues — … Read more
I’m just about to do the second preview performance of Ben Franklin: Unplugged at Portland Center Stage. I’ve been having a great time: the theater staff is amazingly friendly, helpful, and erudite; the first preview audience, last night, was warm and receptive; and, thrillingly, I’ve been able to hang out a bunch with my theatrical … Read more