I’m in a nice hotel room in the Boston area. It’s late-ish, but my body is running on Pacific Time, plus I’ve been drinking lots of coffee, so I’m not sleepy. Tomorrow and Sunday I’ll be doing my Andy Warhol show — info here. Since the last time I performed it, in Santa Fe, I’ve … Read more
My show Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? opens tonight at the magnificent Actors Theatre of Phoenix (through March 20). Tix and info here. Arizona is … different. The doors to the theater have placards that say, “No Weapons. No Smoking.” I think my usual audience members will take this as a sign to leave … Read more
Had a lovely time last night at the opening performance of my run of Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley. (The run — tix and info here — goes through Feb. 27.) Monologues are what I do, and there is an extent to which I don’t feel fully myself … Read more
Even my lovely and powerful computer is getting fed up with all the multitasking. When I ask it to let me use Firefox, it rope-a-dopes me — asking, in effect, “Do you really need to use Firefox? Wouldn’t you be just as happy sticking with your email application?” I need to click on the little … 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