political theater and the Times

http://www.indietheater.org/blog/archives/149

Monday

The 2nd-Ever New York Theater Review 2008 Edition Fundraiser is tomorrow night, Monday, October 22.

The quick skinny:

Performance Space 122

Upstairs Stage (the larger one, not the one around the corner)

150 First Ave. at 9th St.

Manhattan

8-11pm

$25 door/$20 advance.

Advance sales are available thru the Fractured Atlas donation link on the NYTR home page -- www.nytr.org. Just print out whatever Fractured Atlas sends you as a donation acknowledgment and you're in. The donation process will also put you on a list we'll have if you donate up to about noon tomorrow, Monday. But our crack admissions crew will be accepting anything from Fractured Atlas that has your name, our name and $20 (or more) on it.

This is without question the most reasonably-priced fundraiser probably recent NYC memory if not EVER.

Look at what the admission price will get you:

Performances by:

• Banana, Bag & Bodice's musical alter-egos, The Rising Fallen
• The Amazing one-man musical-comedy performance unit that is Reggie Watts
• Singer-songwriter Beth Collins

And that's just part of the entertainment. There will also be 6 brand spankin' new Tiny Plays created especially for the event by downtown theater groups

• Direct Arts
• Bluebox Productions
• The New York Neo-Futurists
• Flux Theatre
• The Shalimar
• Hoi Polloi

AND more auction and raffle items than I can list here and expect you to keep reading, but suffice to say there is some really good stuff going on the block, including a deluxe ticket package of Fall theater events from the likes of

• Classic Stage
• The Flea
• The NY Neo-Futurists
• Performance Space 122
• The Public
• 2nd Stage

PLUS appearances by playwrights Adam Szymkowicz, Anne Washburn, Tommy Smith & Alec Duffy and Seattle's own Marya Sea Kaminski .

Any help you can give us spreading the last-minute word is most appreciated. And if you're in NYC tomorrow night, I hope you'll come on down and say hi. It should be a truly great and memorable evening.

Thanks!

Brook Stowe

New York Theater Review

www.nytr.org

917.838.2747 (questions about the event, probably best to direct them to me, as PS122 BO won't be open Monday night).

Reggie Watts Headlines New York Theater Review Fundraiser October 22

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nov 5

a reading of Herbie

http://clubfreetime.com/vieweventdetails.asp?ID=74100

sticky

short play of mine in early nov

http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=22205

Adam Rapp says

I appreciate good criticism and I think it’s really important. I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature. I’ve written some criticism, and I really enjoy it because I think it’s important for people to know that theatre is vital. Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another. Charles Isherwood and Ben Brantley have a lot of power. I would like to think that Michael Feingold, Jeremy McCarter, David Cote and people who are really interested in new work would have an equal distribution of power. But we’re so governed by the Times. Everyone is so afraid to talk about it, which is what I hate. Now that I’ve been demolished by them, I’m not going to be afraid to talk about it.

Insurance for 800,000 children costs the same as one week in Iraq

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkAvxrgtLr4&eurl=

“We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an M.I.T. physicist whose interrogation of Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy, took place over a chessboard. George Frenkel, 87, recalled that he “never laid hands on anyone” in his many interrogations, adding, “I’m proud to say I never compromised my humanity.” Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those “good Germans” who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo. It’s up to us to wake up our somnambulant Congress to challenge administration policy every day. Let the war’s last supporters filibuster all night if they want to. There is nothing left to lose except whatever remains of our country’s good name.

from Joshua

We should be impeaching a President who broke our laws and perjured himself before the people . . . otherwise, what’s to stop the next person from doing the same?

still looking for a patron

If anyone is looking to support me so that I can write full time
instead of trying to work early in the morning before my dayjob or
after a tiring day and harrowing commute, please get in touch.

thanks.

more about my plays

more about my plays

also ny times

WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 — In a sweeping indictment of the four-year effort in Iraq, the former top commander of American forces there called the Bush administration’s handling of the war “incompetent” and said the result was “a nightmare with no end in sight.”

colbert in ny times

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14dowd.html?em&ex=1192593600&en=72a525f07accb87e&ei=5087%0A

go to 1001, new georges, blood brothers, departures

http://jasongrote.blogspot.com/2007/10/two-new-offers-from-p73.html

http://jamespeak.blogspot.com/2007/10/it-has-begun.html

http://matthewfreeman.blogspot.com/2007/10/review-of-depatures.html

Great post about when theater works

http://splattworks.blogspot.com/2007/10/jonesing-glow.html

Where I will be Oct 22

Hope to see you there!!

http://www.nytr.org/

another good Departures review

http://thatsoundscool.blogspot.com/2007/10/play-departures.html

Bragging or My New Career

I came up with the subtitle my friend Jodi is using for her book. How To Eat Like a Hot Chick: Eat What You Love, Love How You Feel do you need a subtitle for your book, too? Contact me and I'll write you a doozy. My rates are very reasonable. For more on the book Jodi and Cerina wrote: here and here and here