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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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Don’t Forget! The Dog Walking Diva At Don’t Tell Mama

by Karen Tortora-Lee October 31, 2011 Event

Champagne Pam is The Dog Walking Diva! Vocalist “Champagne Pam” returns to Don’t Tell Mama’s in her cabaret show The Dog-Walking Diva. Bubbling with a spectrum of sound from contemporary music to jazz, this show is intended to pop with the cabaret devotee as well as dog lovers everywhere! Donald Rebic, piano, and John Hurley, [...]

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Take A Stroll With The Dog Walking Diva – Champagne Pam Comes To Don’t Tell Mama

by Karen Tortora-Lee October 2, 2011 Event

Champagne Pam is The Dog Walking Diva! Vocalist “Champagne Pam” returns to Don’t Tell Mama’s in her cabaret show The Dog-Walking Diva. Bubbling with a spectrum of sound from contemporary music to jazz, this show is intended to pop with the cabaret devotee as well as dog lovers everywhere! Donald Rebic, piano, and John Hurley, [...]

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Mike Milazzo — Open Mike

by The Happiest Medium September 15, 2011 Event

interview done by Karen + Stephen Tortora-Lee Mike Milazzo – The Show from Mads Jeppesen on Vimeo. If you’ve ever seen Mike Milazzo play the guitar then you already know what an amazing experience it is to watch him – his fingers fly effortlessly over the strings producing almost unbelievably complex sounds that are not [...]

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Open Mic Night And Post-Irene PARTY!

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 30, 2011 Event

Monologues! Comedy! Improv! Ukulele music! Friday, Sept. 2nd, 7-9pm –> Bowery Poetry Club <– Hosted by award-winning playwright Monica Bauer (Outstanding New Script, MITF 2008; nominee writing for Best Solo Show, Planet Connections 2010; finalist, Heideman Award). Performers include: playwright Monica Bauer performing the Breast Pride Movement from the Diet Monologues John Fico performing a [...]

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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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Anna & The Annadroids: Memoirs Of A Robot Girl (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee August 20, 2011 Art

Meet Anna. In Anna & The Annadroids: Memoirs of a Robot Girl – an interesting combination of modern dance, techno music, social commentary, science fiction, multimedia, and a bit of burlesque – Anna is an android who is made of ”pure synthetic organic flesh”. So instead of being made only of metal with a “mind [...]

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Smoke The New Cigarette (Fringe Festival 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson August 20, 2011 Art

It’s pretty clever when a theatrical production adopts the stance that what it is about to present you with is nothing more than offensive, odious rubbish. And when it does so persistently, warning you at each interval that things are only going to get worse, more unbearable, it seems cleverer, because you have no one [...]

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Some Time For The OTHERS

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 13, 2011 Dance

Yes, we may have Fringe on the brain, but that doesn’t mean that other things aren’t going on this weekend. And, quite fittingly one of those other things is something called The OTHERS Project. Paul Bedard, co artistic director for Theater in Asylum, took a moment to chat with me about a very exciting [...]

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Judgement Of Paris: Morningside Opera Is At It Again And I Can’t Wait

by Karen Tortora-Lee August 12, 2011 Event

I like nothing better than being naughty at the Opera. Neophytes might consider this akin to making out in the last pew of church but, actually, it’s not. I mean, really. Generally, no matter which opera you’re attending there’s all this drama unfolding in front of you … all this intense emotion, this deep passion, [...]

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Chasing Amy – What’s Inside Her Never Dies

by Karen Tortora-Lee July 24, 2011 Event

All I can ever be to you, Is a darkness that we knew, And this regret I’ve grown accustom to. – “Tears Dry On Their Own” / Amy Winehouse There’s always a little bit of “what if” and “why didn’t someone” and “stop demonizing / vilifying / glorifying them now just because they’re dead” [...]

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She’s Mad But She’s Magic: LOVER. MUSE. MOCKINGBIRD. WHORE

by Karen Tortora-Lee April 18, 2011 Brooklyn

I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave. I’m glad when I hear their heels approaching my door and I’m glad when those heels walk away. I’m glad to fuck. I’m glad to care. And I’m glad when it’s over. And since it’s always either starting or finishing I’m glad most of [...]

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Women’s History Month GRAND FINALE: Celebrating Women In The Arts – It Ain’t Over Till The Phat Ladies Sing

by Karen Tortora-Lee April 2, 2011 Karen's Interviews

On the last day of March Women’s History Month came to a close but today we have one final curtain call – with two amazing women from the world of opera: Brooke Bryant and Minou Arjomand. Yes, March is officially over. But, like I said in the title, it’s over when *I* say it’s [...]

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Women’s History Month: Celebrating Women In The Arts – Spotlight On Brett Umlauf

by Karen Tortora-Lee March 24, 2011 Karen's Interviews

These women of the arts hail from different disciplines, but they all have an indomitable spirit and a luminescent spark that makes them amazing human beings who are out there every day, doing amazing work. Today we continue our series with Brett Umlauf. The first time I saw Brett she was decked out in a [...]

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Women’s History Month: Celebrating Women In The Arts – Spotlight On Franca Vercelloni

by Karen Tortora-Lee March 23, 2011 Karen's Interviews

These women of the arts hail from different disciplines, but they all have an indomitable spirit and a luminescent spark that makes them amazing human beings who are out there every day, doing amazing work. Today we continue our series with Franca Vercelloni. The first time I saw Franca she was on a stage and [...]

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A Creation Story: An Interview With Eric Sanders And Dave Nuss – The Team Behind “Original Innocence”

by Karen Tortora-Lee March 22, 2011 Art

In early February I did a mini-interview with Eric Sanders knowing that I’d soon have the opportunity to have a much longer conversation with him and his collaborator, Dave Nuss. Together they have created Original Innocence – The Rock Opera and I’m already fascinated by what I’ve seen. This Friday, March 25th I’ll be [...]

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Saving Tania’s Privates, The Bravura of Ms. Katan (FRIGID New York 2011)

by Antonio Miniño March 2, 2011 FRIGID 2011

Theatre magic doesn’t happen every day or in every show. Those instances when time stops and you are transported from every day life into the world of a writer or a performer are happening right now at the FRIGID New York festival in a basement theater called Under St. Marks. The mastermind behind all this [...]

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