Indie Theater Now! returns with the May edition featuring six shows that will be opening this month.  You’ll hear excerpts from some and conversations with Trav S.D., our host, for all.  There’s a discount offer at the end from Looking Glass Theater, so listen carefully and save.

We lead off with a short selection, like nothing you’ve probably ever heard before, by Rob Erickson (aka Lumberob). He describes his work which plays at Dixon Place, Off the Hozzle, as a vocal show.  It’s a mic plugged into a pedal, plugged into etc., etc.  Listen to find out more about this fascinating way of making music.

James Comtois is up next to chat about his new play, Colorful World, produced by his company, Nosedive Productions.  It’s about comic book superheros, but not the kind Trav expects.

The Lone Wolf Series is a festival of sorts — short solo plays by members of Coyote Rep.  Artistic director Jeanne LaSala describes the series and the plays that are part of it.  She then turns the mic over to Heidi Tokheim, author and performer of one of the plays included, Stella by Starlight, which it turns out is the impetus for the series.  

Milk Can Theatre’s artistic director, Julie Balzer talks to Trav S.D. about the company, introduces a short musical selection performed by Ashley Griffin and Mike Steinmetz from the company’s 5 Borough Plays and concludes with info about this themed evening of short plays set in each of the boroughs of New York.

GayfestNYC opens mid-month with five world premieres.  Co-producer Bruce Robert Harris talks about the festival in general and a bit about each of the plays.  Playwright Tim O’Leary, whose play The Wrath of Aphrodute is one of the selections, tells us a bit about the play.  

Shannon Ward, artistic director of Looking Glass Theatre talks a bit about their production of Everyman, where the title character is a woman and called Every.  She introduces Phillip Chavira, Megan Gaffney, Kimberlee Walker, and Christopher Williams who recite a short excerpt from the play. And there is a discount offer for listeners.

Episode Links:

• Looking Glass Theatre Company website
• Nosedive Productions website
• James Comtois’ blog
• Coyote REP website
• Dixon Place website
• GayfestNYC website
• Milk Can Theatre website 

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