So, FYI, the new astrological signs don't matter unless you were born after 2009.

Went yesterday to see Jim Allen in the hospital. Chris Stansfield had said he was going at the party the night before, and asked if I wanted to come along.
He's in Gouverneur Hospital. It's a largely Chinese elder care facility (they literally had to send away for ( Read more... )

Wow, had such a nice time at the The Theater Company benefit last night.
Food was great- really, any sort of bacon-wrapped anything will make me happy, and on top of that there were wieners in puff pastry, my other favorite finger food. Ali Baba donated some hummus and those little spicy things. kellygirlnyc brought tons of her homemade sweets, which were ( Read more... )

Wednesday night went to go see In Fields Where They Lay, a workshop reading of a new in-process play about the Christmas Truce. Alan (from Suckers) was in it, as the upper-class British officer, as well as the cockney mail deliverer. A lot of it was really good ( Read more... )

In the Heights is creating a scholarship, inspired by Nina's story in the play. Graduate to New Heights (or Graduate Tone Wheights)

Today is the reading of The 40-Foot-Jesus Statue and Hate Myself in the Morning. Excited and nervous.

Last night's performance of Suckers went well; it was a quieter audience than our opening night, but people ( Read more... )

Oooh, Patricia's going to be in I Hate Love! w00t!
And it appears we'll be in the Dorothy Strelsin. That's gonna be a tight fit with a cast of 19.

Loooong day yesterday. Met Eva at 11am in Tomkins Square Park to shoot an interview for Hi!Drama promoting Suckers. She also asked if I was doing something in the MITF this year, and I mentioned ( Read more... )

...always said that was like peanuts.

Our antepenultimate performance of Ore, or Or is tonight at 8!! After that there's Friday at 6:30, then Saturday at 3:45.

Nytheater.com asked all the Planet Connections folks about their shows for previews. Here they are.
Suckers is listed under Politics/War, Diversity, Gay/Lesbian and Comedy/Parody/Satire ( Read more... )

Happy birthday walltack!

Last night's cue-to-cue for Ore, or Or was very long, but things are going to be beautiful ( Read more... )

So much to write, and so little time.

Easter Bonnet Competition Monday was awesome, though the jokes were nearly all

• Let's do half our show in Spanish
• Let's fight the recession by ______
• Lupone don't like cameras
• Liza Minelli exists

Naked Boys Singing did a startlingly classy dance piece, Wicked did hilarious stuff with "More" from Dick Tracy ( Read more... )

Went to see Arol's short film last night, "Breakup Breakdown". It was very clever. He's going to post it on his Facebook soon, and then I'll link it here; since it's only 7 minutes, to describe it is to spoil everything about it ( Read more... )

David Hernandez (who played Andrew in my first production of Amazing Dædalus) sent me this photo- he says he named him Andrew. :)
Os nom shoos!Thursday after our producer's meeting I'd planned to hit Marie's Crisis. I had some time to kill after the meeting before Marie's opened, and I was going to check out my new laptop that I got for free, ( Read more... )