Episode # 171 - Indie Theater Now: November 2007
The November edition of our monthly podcast series spotlighting what’s new in the world of NYC indie theater feature features our host, Trav S.D., talking to folks from six current productions:
- Ko’olau: Puppet designer/creator Tom Lee talks about this puppet theatre piece at Chocolate Factory Theatre, based on a true story from Hawaiian history
- The Pioneer: Director Mark Harborth discusses this evening of short early plays by Eugene O’Neill at Metropolitan Playhouse; and Alex Roe performs a brief excerpt from one of them, The Last Will and Testament of Silverdene Emblem O’Neill
- Humans Anonymous: Actor Esther Barlow and playwright/actor Kate Hewlett discuss this new play from Canada, presented by the Bridge Theatre Company; Esther performs an excerpt from the play
- Unrestricted Acts: Co-artistic directors Stephanie Pistello and Sarah Moon of the New Mummer Group, and actor Jim Kane preview this double-bill of new plays, one by a New Yorker, the other by a Kentuckian
- Mina: Tony Award-nominated playwright Leslie Lee (The First Breeze of Summer) talks about his newest play, which is being presented by La MaMa and is about the life of Mina Loy, a poet and artist who thrived in the early 20th century
- KLEYNKUNST: Rebecca Joy Fletcher, creator and one of the performers of this musical revue from National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene, about the Yiddish cabaret of the Warsaw ghetto between the wars; she also presents a brief musical excerpt from the show performed by herself and Stephen Mo Hanan
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