Under St. Marks

I Married A Nun: 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium January 31, 2012 Festivals

Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? I Married A Nun! A one-woman show that dramatically depicts D’yan’s search for love and meaning in life, finding the answers—at age 77—in the smoldering cabarets and demimonde of Paris. With humor, art and her ukulele, she reveals the truth that’s valid [...]

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Love In The Time Of Chlamydia: 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium January 31, 2012 Festivals

Five Questions. Five Answers. And one big decision: Rock, Paper, or Scissors? Love In The Time Of Chlamydia Company: Hard Sparks Love In The Time Of Chlamydia is one woman’s search for love in a world full of absent dads, dirtbag boyfriends, and premature ejaculators. Your first time wasn’t weirder – and your best [...]

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BREATHE LOVE REPEAT: a near-life experience – 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium January 30, 2012 Festivals

Five Questions. Five Answers. And one big decision: Rock, Paper, or Scissors? BREATHE LOVE REPEAT:a near-life experience Produced by: The Mustique Projects A samurai super daughter struggles with her mother at the crossroads between east and west to affirm life between this world and the next. Show Times: Wed. 2/22 @ 10:30pm Fri. [...]

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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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I’m Not Sure I Like The Way You Licked Me – She Takes A Lickin’ And Keeps On: Bricken

by Karen Tortora-Lee April 8, 2011 Manhattan

Bricken Sparacino sure has been licked a lot in her life … but not exactly the way you’d expect from a show titled I’m Not Sure I Like The Way You Licked Me!. I mean, of course, there is the requisite anecdote about the guy who french kissed her in a way that [...]

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Early Risers / Night Owls … Come With Me – Help Save UNDER St. Marks

by Karen Tortora-Lee April 4, 2011 Manhattan

Linda Evangelista is the source of the oft-quoted line “I won’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.” I’ve often paraphrased and said that I won’t get out of bed before six a.m. unless a number like that is mentioned. Yeah, well … how about a number like over 5 million? [...]

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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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Women’s History Month: Celebrating Women In The Arts – Spotlight On GiGi La Femme

by Karen Tortora-Lee March 28, 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 GiGi La Femme. The first time I saw Ms. La Femme it was [...]

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Women’s History Month: Celebrating Women In The Arts – Spotlight On Heidi Grumelot

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 Heidi G. Grumelot. Heidi Grumelot is the Artistic Director of Horse Trade Theater Group. [...]

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Women’s History Month: Celebrating Women In The Arts – Spotlight On Penny Pollak

by Karen Tortora-Lee March 16, 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 Penny Pollak. I picked this photo above ‘specially for her: “DON’T let your woman [...]

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Pretty-n-Papi, The Pickle To My Fluff? (FRIGID New York 2011)

by Antonio Miniño March 4, 2011 Festivals

In Pretty-n-Papi (written by Leah James Abel, Cody Schreger, and Olivia Lehrman) Ms. Pretty Smart is pretty ready for her pretty man to walk into her life, but things aren’t looking that bright for this girl in the love department so she decides to start online dating, why not! Haunted by a radio commercial of “Princess [...]

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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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Inside Straight: The Twisty Path Of Personal Investigation In A Modern Age (FRIGID New York 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee March 1, 2011 Festivals

In poker terms an inside straight means you have everything you need to get all the cards in your hand in order except you’re missing the one in the middle. In actor/writer George Ridgeway’s Inside Straight the play/docudrama/solo show illustrates that as we progress through the second decade of the 21st century, we as individuals, [...]

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I Love You (We’re F*#ked) (FRIGID New York 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson March 1, 2011 Festivals

Kevin J. Thornton nimbly takes the stage at 4 in the afternoon for another performance of his one-man show, I Love You (We’re F*#ked). “It’s early in the day, isn’t it?” he asks. “I feel like I’ve just gotten up.” And looking at him, with a slight rawness around the eyes and a gracefully rumpled [...]

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ONEymoon – Is ONE Enough? (FRIGID New York 2011)

by Antonio Miniño February 28, 2011 FRIGID 2011

The road to self can be a very bumpy one – even bumpier is the road to finding your other half – unless that other half is yourself? The need for that special someone is the favorite topic of most of our happiest mediums, being the center crux in hundreds of books, movies and theatre. [...]

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The Bitter Poet: Finding Irony In All The Right Places (FRIGID New York 2011)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee February 27, 2011 Festivals

According to The Bitter Poet (real name, Kevin Draine) when the audience first meets him, he makes it clear that this is no “show”, and that he has no “narrative”. He has no pretenses, just poetry. He also has a ruffled red shirt as well as a beautiful and rich perspective and the “luck” to [...]

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FUNNY A Trunk Show – Filled With Heart (FRIGID New York 2011)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson February 26, 2011 Festivals

Titling a show FUNNY A Trunk Show is perhaps somewhat daring, if not theatrical wishful thinking. Some people’s funny is other people’s camp. So it’s a good thing that Denmo Ibrahim’s one-woman show, just opened in the FRIGID New York Festival, knows what it is about, and blithely transcends its title. Related Posts:FRIGID New York [...]

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