“Welcome down to the orchestra. Congratulations on making it down from the loge and not having to work with Baby Jane up there anymore.” Rise of the Usher Premieres at 16th Annual Midtown International Theatre Festival (“MITF”) Written and Performed by Jessica Elkin Rise of the Usher has elements of All About Eve as well as…
Hi Friends, I cannot get enough of this warm weather. I have been spending my weekends on the swing on my front porch with a book and club soda. I hope you’re making time in your busy schedule to spend some time relaxing outside. Here are three books coming out this month that we’re looking…
Hi Friends, When I heard a revival of Gigi was coming to Broadway, I was immediately interested in getting tickets. I had seen the 1958 film with Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, and Louis Jourdan and was curious to see a live performance of this rather odd story. I always found the movie to be flat…
Hello Beautiful People, This weekend, Love Won. And the teacher in me can’t help but make it a teaching moment for you all. I, am straight. There’s never been a question about who I could or could not marry in this country. There’s never been a thought in my mind about my marriage being accepted….
Hello Beautiful People, Recently, Absolutely True Lies by Rachel Stuhler came across my desk. Here’s the official book blurb: Holly Gracin, a fledgling writer in Los Angeles, stumbles into what could be the gig of a lifetime—writing a young starlet’s tell-all “autobiography”—but soon discovers the secrets lurking behind tween icon Daisy May Dixson’s squeaky clean…
San Diego theater company THE TRIP, proudly brings their newly acclaimed cinematic stage adaptation to New York City. ORPHEUS & EURYDICE written and directed by Tom Dugdale (Humana Festival; Contemporary American Theater Festival; Hungarian Theater of Cluj; Princess Grace Award Winner), will play five performances at Theaterlab NYC (357 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor, New…
Hello Beautiful People, When I was teenager, I spent an obscene amount of money on YM and Seventeen. When I was teenager, I felt bad about being tall. About having black hair and brown eyes. About tanning so easily in the summer. About putting on an extra pound or two. When I was teenager, I…
Hello Beautiful, Blake Pfeil is an actor and a songwriter. His debut album Wallpaper, is available on iTunes, Amazon, Google, and many others sites. After a sold-out 2013 NYC debut at Joe’s Pub (Blake Pfeil is in Love with a Girl Named… Irene,) Blake’s music has also been featured in larger venues like the Highline…
Hello Beautiful People, There’s a new theatre art space downtown – the Sheen Center. Their mission is thus- The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture is a forum to highlight the true, the good, and the beautiful as they have been expressed throughout the ages. Cognizant of our creation in the image and likeness of…
Hello Beautiful People, I once had a student who needed me to walk on the right side of him in the hallways. I once had a different student who couldn’t look at the red squiggle of the spell check indicator without having a panic attack. I recently directed a musical at a high school on…