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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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Let’s Keep Dancing … At The Company XIV Workshop

by Karen Tortora-Lee on March 8, 2012 · 0 comments

in Brooklyn, Dance, Event, Off-Off-Broadway, Theatre

  Even casual readers of The Happiest Medium know that when it comes to Company XIV and Austin McCormick I am reduced to a screaming fan-girl.  I am older, of course -not a girl, so my screaming is done on the inside (most of the time), but when it comes to this neo-baroque dance ensemble [...]

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Company XIV – The Workshop You’ve All Been Waiting For …

by Karen Tortora-Lee on February 7, 2012 · 0 comments

in Dance, Event, Theatre

If you read THM with any frequency you already know that I am a HUGE fan of Austin McCormick and his amazing Company XIV. What comes out of the 303 Bond Street Theatre is almost impossible to describe – because how can you describe the way your life is changed, over and over again? The [...]

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The 2012 National Newborn Festival Is Almost Here!

by Karen Tortora-Lee January 31, 2012 Event

As part of the Board of Directors of MTWorks I’m really proud to be involved with the National Newborn Festival. Part of my job was to help choose the Excellence in Playwriting Award (see below for the winner!) and this year I’ll be introducing one of the plays — but I won’t tell you which [...]

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Radio City – Just For Tourists? Think Again …

by Karen Tortora-Lee December 16, 2011 Event

If Christmas in New York could be found on the map I think most people would agree that its address would be Rockefeller Center, filled as it is with the tree and the giant decorations, and the fabled City of Radio … where Rockettes dress up as reindeer and dance their little hearts out, doling [...]

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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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Wasabassco Extravaganza: Better Than Promised … Night One

by Karen Tortora-Lee November 5, 2011 Brooklyn

      Temperatures were rising last night at the first evening of the two part celebration for Doc Wasabassco’s 7th Anniversary Extravaganza. The blazing hot belles were ravishing, revealing and  resplendant as they strutted, sauntered and slowly stripped their way across the stage of The Bell House last night. But that was only part of [...]

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Wasabassco Burlesque – Celebrating Seven Years And Still Going Strong

by Karen Tortora-Lee November 3, 2011 Brooklyn

If you’re any kind of regular reader of THM then you know that around here we sure love Burlesque.  Lucky us!  Living in New York City as we do, there is no shortage of fantastic Burlesque performers who constantly and consistently have us hooting and hollering and calling out for more. If you, too, are [...]

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Doric Wilson – Gone But Not Forgotten: Help Celebrate His Life

by Karen Tortora-Lee October 9, 2011 Event

  Doric Wilson passed away May 7th of this year.  Some may know him as an American playwright, director, producer, critic and gay rights activist. Others may know him as the founder of TOSOS (The Other Side Of Silence) which was the first professional gay theatre company.   But to many he was much, much more [...]

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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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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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Creation Mythology, Rock Opera, BYOB – Just Another Night For Eric Sanders

by Karen Tortora-Lee February 9, 2011 Event

I’m always happy when I have an excuse to talk to Eric Sanders – he’s one of the most talented people I’ve run across and I love that doing what I do allows me to periodically get him to update me on what he’s doing.  A quick brush up: I first met Eric when he [...]

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Entrevista: ESPA’s Tessa LaNeve

by Antonio Miniño February 1, 2011 Entrevista

Tessa LaNeve is the Literary Manager and Director of The Primary Stages and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts. She was kind enough to answer some questions in the middle of auditions for their next semester and planning DETENTION, a new performance series she will speak more of. What is ESPA? When was it formed [...]

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The National Newborn Festival: Celebrating Emerging Playwrights In Style

by Diánna Martin January 28, 2011 Event

The National Newborn Festival has become, over the last four years, one of the premiere playwriting festivals in the country for emerging playwrights. A flagship program created and produced by MTWorks, an ever-growing, non-profit theatre company, Newborn allows playwrights to have a work never produced in New York be read in a festival setting. Free [...]

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Burlesque Blitz – The Strip Down Before The Count Down

by Karen Tortora-Lee December 27, 2010 Event

Wondering what to do with the last week of the year?  Maybe 2010 hasn’t been steamy enough for you and you need a little more sexiness before counting down to 2011?  If that sounds like your kinda heat – especially in this snowy weather, then get yourself to the  2010 BURLESQUE BLITZ!  For Four Nights Only (December [...]

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A VERY YOGA CHRISTMAS (3rd annual) – Come! It’ll Be Super Fun!

by Karen Tortora-Lee December 21, 2010 Event

Don’t forget, boys and girls, that there is so much fun to be had at A VERY YOGA CHRISTMAS (3rd annual) you may not want to keep going for REAL CHRISTMAS.  Does REAL CHRISTMAS have Coach (the greatest rock band in the world?)  Mine doesn’t!  Does REAL CHRISTMAS have comedy and music and dark weirdness? [...]

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The Children!!!! Who Will Think Of The Children??? – Alter Ego Will. They Always Do

by Karen Tortora-Lee December 13, 2010 Dance

Okay, so – yeah . . . maybe Alter Ego is actually not usually appropriate for children.  But you can be there, thinking of them!  Because this Sunday – December 19th Alter Ego is having a very special Toys for Tots benefit performance party  – at Fontana’s which is exactly the place you wanna be [...]

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