Episode # 178 - Indie Theater Now: December 2007 Edition
This is a mostly holiday-themed episode of our monthly Indie Theater Now series, celebrating and shining a spotlight on some of the nifty new shows heading to indie theaters in New York City.
The indefatigable Trav S.D. is once again the host of this variety show. This month he welcomes these guests:
- Sandra Nordgren, Ari Jacobson, and Sam Antar from 13th Street Rep’s production of A Christmas Carol — Sandra is the author of this very traditional and faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic; Ari and Samuel perform an excerpt (they play the Ghost of Christmas Present and Scrooge)
- Amy Overman and Pete Schuyler of The Eight: Reindeer Monologues, which is being revived by Dysfunctional Theatre Company — Amy plays Comet and Pete plays Cupid, two of Santa’s reindeer, in this raunchy comedy by Jeff Goode … Amy and Pete both perform brief excerpts from the show!
- Lynn Marie Macy and Karen Eterovich from Theater Ten Ten’s Innocent Diversions: A Christmas Entertainment With Jane Austen & Friends — Lynn Marie is the writer/director, while Karen AS JANE AUSTEN is interviewed by our intrepid host
- Dan Barnes, director of The City That Cried Wolf, a nursery-rhyme-meets-film-noir by Brooks Reeves, now playing at 59E59 Theater – Dan talks about the show and its development
- Playwright Eric Bland and director Scott Eckert of The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg — Eric reads an excerpt from his funny, sweet play Mother Mary Come to Me, which is one of a dozen short new works featured in this annual holiday festival
- Daniel Kelley, Katie Hartman, John Moreno, Rachel Risen, and Henry Zebrowski of Love, Death, and Vengeance — this is a new play by Daniel that premieres at the Gene Frankel Underground this month … Daniel says it’s like Euripides writing for DeGrassi High … Katie, John, Rachel, and Henry give us a brief sample scene
Episode Links:
- 13th Street Rep website
- Dysfunctional Theatre Company website
- Theater Ten Ten website
- Lisa Ferber’s review of Innocent Diversions on nytheatre.com
- Karen Eterovich’s website
- The City That Cried Wolf official website
- Josephine Cashman’s review of The City That Cried Wolf (last year’s FringeNYC)
- Brick Theater website
- Old Kent Road Theater website (Eric Bland & Scott Eckert’s company)
- Love, Death, and Vengeance official website
- Daniel Kelley’s reviewer’s page on nytheatre.com
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