Michelle Augello-Page

Livia’s Castle of Enchantment

by Michelle Augello-Page on May 7, 2012 · 0 comments

in Event, Improv, Manhattan, Music, Off-Broadway, Reviews, Theatre

Actress and Comedian Livia Scott hosts this monthly variety show, where dead celebrities are brought back to life and stellar guest performances contribute to the experience of Livia’s Castle of Enchantment at the UCB Theater East. I attended Livia’s Castle of Enchantment on Tuesday, April 24, and was pleasantly taken on a whirlwind as Livia [...]

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24th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist Readings In NYC

by Michelle Augello-Page on May 2, 2012 · 0 comments

in Books, Event, Manhattan

  The Lambda Literary Foundation has selected 119 finalists for the prestigious 24th Annual Lambda Literary Award, which identifies and celebrates the best of lesbian and gay books in the year of their publication. Finalist readings are being held in San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles. On Friday, May 11, Lambda [...]

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Book Review: Best Erotic Romance

by Michelle Augello-Page on March 21, 2012 · 2 comments

in Books, Review

Best Erotic Romance (Cleis Press, 2012) offers a sampling of work from some of the best authors writing in the erotic romance genre today. Editor Kristina Wright introduces Best Erotic Romance by saying, “These are the stories that touched my heart and ignited my libido, that made me think about the nature of desire and [...]

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‘Til Love Do Us Part – Love You To Death (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by Michelle Augello-Page February 26, 2012 FRIGID 2012

    ‘T’il Love Do Us Part is a dark play about love, life, and death, written by Andrew Hall and directed by Cameron J. Marcotte. Part absurd, part realism, and part cautionary tale, the whole of this play centers upon the relationship between John and Virginia Walker. The audience is taken on a journey [...]

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Initium / Finis: Bold From Beginning To End (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by Michelle Augello-Page February 25, 2012 Festivals

  Initium / Finis is “a sensual tale of violence and revolution born in a futuristic metropolis. Theatre Reverb combines media, red-light cabaret, live music, Judeo-Christian and Hindu myth, and classical Indian dance-theatre to envelop spectators in a lush sci-fi noir.” This Frigid Festival performance is an excerpt from a larger work,  which will be [...]

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Judge, Yuri, & Executioner: The Verdict Is In (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by Michelle Augello-Page February 25, 2012 FRIGID 2012

Judge, Yuri, & Executioner is a simple, straightforward, character-driven play, and therein lies its brilliance. Written by Ed Malin, directed by DeLisa White, and starring Mac Rogers, this play is the work of three formidable talents. Incredibly strong writing and stellar acting carry the play forward, captivating the audience with wit, humor, and intelligence, as [...]

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Interview: Eden And John’s East River String Band

by Michelle Augello-Page January 3, 2012 Interview

If you haven’t heard Eden and John’s East River String Band yet, then you are in for a treat! Based in the East Village in NYC, Eden Brower and John Heneghan have been entertaining audiences in America, Canada, and Europe for the past several years with their versions of 1920s pre-war blues, jazz, pop, and [...]

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Benefit Concert For Ghar Sita Mutu

by Michelle Augello-Page November 10, 2011 Event

A benefit concert is being held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ghar Sita Mutu – “House with a Heart” – a charity that offers a children’s home, a children’s learning center, a women’s training center, and a family outreach program to those living in extreme poverty in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Ghar Sita Mutu Benefit Concert is [...]

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Joe Yoga: Retrospective NYC Tour

by Michelle Augello-Page November 3, 2011 Event

To celebrate a decade of songwriting and playing music, Joe Yoga has put together a Retrospective NYC Tour – five venues, seven days, ten years of songs. Each show in the tour is centered around a different theme, signifying the stops and signposts along his journey over the past ten years. As a singer/songwriter Joe [...]

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Interview With Mads Jeppesen: Somewhere In The Dark

by Michelle Augello-Page October 1, 2011 Art

Today The Happiest Medium shines the spotlight Somewhere in The Dark, in this interview with Danish filmmaker Mads Jeppesen. “Somewhere in the Dark is an insightful cinema verite documentary that encompasses the raw undiscovered talents within a plethora of individuals and their hunt for somewhere to create and express their art through the dark and [...]

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Before Placing Me On Your Shelf (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Michelle Augello-Page August 24, 2011 Festivals

Before Placing Me on Your Shelf, a Lunar Energy production directed and conceived by Philip Gates and featuring the talents of Jonathan Horvath, Caitlin Johnston, Adam Scott Mazer, Josh Odsess-Rubin, Elizabeth Romanski, Theo Salter, and Nadia Sepsenwol, is inextricably tied to the poetry of James Tate. Nearly all of the dialogue in Before Placing Me [...]

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When The Sky Breaks 3D (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Michelle Augello-Page August 23, 2011 Dance

Break dancing, waving, popping, locking, and expanding the very definition of hip-hop style, the dancers in Decadancetheatre’s When the Sky Breaks 3D weave a radiant and essential story, moving beyond narrative dance and into an abstract world where environment is infused, challenged, and released through the body. When the Sky Breaks 3D is directed by [...]

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Lipshtick (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Michelle Augello-Page August 21, 2011 Festivals

  Lipshtick is an ambitious play, taking the audience on a funny, poignant, and complex journey through what it meant to be a woman in 20th century America amidst a media blitzkrieg mirroring society’s perceptions, ideals, and images, while seeking to expose how women internalize and externalize these expectations as they struggle towards a sense [...]

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Lickin’ With Bricken – An Interview With Bricken Sparacino

by Michelle Augello-Page March 31, 2011 Off-Off-Broadway

  Bricken Sparacino is an award winning/nominated performer, writer and director. She is also a bright, confident woman who has been involved in theatre for most of her life. To watch her work is to watch an artist with a powerful command of her talents. I have seen her ability to transform a space, as [...]

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