Joe Brack is the last elf standing
December 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Performers in holiday shows have lots to be merry about this season as box office sales have earned extensions for their shows. Synetic’s Romeo and Juliet added a week, closing today, STC’s Much Ado About Nothing carries over to 2012, closing January 7th, and at Olney, the cast of The Sound of Music will be in their 9th week when they close January 22nd. [Read more...]
The Santaland Diaries
December 8, 2011 By 2 Comments
If anyone can find the dark side of the happiest time of the year, it’s David Sedaris. The master of sardonic storytelling has found a talented vessel in Joe Brack, who has concocted an animated, multi-layered spin on Sedaris’ painfully funny Christmas chronicle, The Santaland Diaries. [Read more...]
Santaland Diaries
December 12, 2009 By 1 Comment
For the unemployed – and, brothers and sisters, I know you have been there, at least once – Christmas is a sad, sad season. For those who have dreamed of a career in the creative arts, [Read more...]
7(x1) Samurai
October 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment
7(x1) Samurai: An epic tale … told by an idiotwritten and performed by David Gaines
directed by David Gaines
produced by City Artistic Partnerships
reviewed by Leslie Weisman
There’s been an astonishing crop of one-man shows here lately, from Rick Miller’s MacHomer at Warehouse, to Josh Kornbluth’s Citizen Josh at Arena Stage, to Scott Renz’s Abe Lincoln at Cole Studio. Perhaps the daddy of them all was Mike Daisy’s If You See Something, Say Something, a Fringe favorite this past summer that later played to sold-out audiences at Woolly Mammoth. But Fringe-goers had another pick in mind when they voted for Best Solo Performance of Fringe Fest 2008: [Read more...]
