The Quest Begins for “Hair” Tickets

Hair begins performances tonight at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park as part of the Public Theatre’s annual Shakespeare in the Park presentations. I’m already on the “virtual” ticket line this morning for two free tickets to the show. I’ll keep getting on the virtual line every day until I get in to see the [...]

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Friday Geek Out: The Last 5 Years

The Last 5 Years made its off-Broadway debut in March 2002 and played a limited run for a couple of months, during which time I saw it twice. Despite it’s short time in New York, it became one of my favorite musicals because of it’s superb music and cast along with it’s unique storytelling method.
The [...]

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Friday Geek Out: Tick, Tick… Boom!

Before Jonathan Larson wrote Rent, he had written other works that had been tried out off- off-Broadway, including a one man show that chronicled his efforts to actually write a show. In 2001, David Auburn (writer of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Proof) adapted the one man show, turning it into a three-person play called [...]

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Die Mommie Die!

We took in a show for the holiday weekend, venturing off-Broadway to see Die Mommie Die!. Charles Busch wrote and stars in this show that is billed as a “riotous comedy-thriller.” We saw the film version of this play back in 2003 and we loved it. The play made it’s New York debut earlier this [...]

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Saturday’s Mixed Topic Post

Reason 3,549 Why Not Being Legally Married is Problem: Signing up for health insurance at the new job, which does offer domestic partner coverage (which is, of course, great), is made all the more difficult because I have to produce a notarized document certifying that we are domestic partners. If we were legally married, I’d [...]

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