February 01, 2006
Our Pants are Fancy!
filed under: Idle ChatterLook at us, top-lined and Short-Listed on New York Mag's theater page:
PLUS - it looks like I'm going to be performing in this weekend's Youngblood Sunday Brunch. This is a rare opportunity for me to remind everyone why I stick to directing. Come check it out - Sunday at 1pm. $10 for brunch buffet, first drink included, two new plays, and possibly my very public humiliation.
For info on the new play fest OR the Brunch, go here.
UPDATE: OUR PANTS JUST GOT FANCIER!
From this week's Time Out New York:
The text of the blurb:
Breakfast of champions
In the pantheon of noble dramatic endeavors, dinner theater may rank only slightly higher than cockfighting and monster-truck rallies, but that won’t deter the waggish scribes of Youngblood, a collective of emerging playwrights based at the Ensemble Studio Theatre.
On the first Sunday of each month, the group throws its increasingly popular Youngblood Sunday Brunch, a spread of eggs, bacon, pancakes and Bloody Marys, along with new installments of two irreverent serials: Sexmento and Glory Days at Jesus High.
The toothsome tradition is the brainchild of Youngblood co–artistic director RJ Tolan, who explains that the brunch “lets us further [the group’s] ongoing mission to forge a tighter relationship between theater and alcohol.” On the serious side, he says that he considered a late-night series, but a breakfast-centered event seemed more original. And fresh ideas are essential to Youngblood, a 13-year-old group that distinguishes itself from the city’s other playwriting organizations (New Dramatists, Cherry Lane Theatre’s mentor program) by maintaining a saucy outsider stance. “It’s frustrating for a young writer to feel that, no matter how good your stuff is, nobody will take a chance on you unless you’ve already been baptized by the establishment,” Tolan explains. “So we’re trying to find new ways to get our writers in front of an audience. So far, the pancakes seem to be helping.” See Off-Off Broadway listings for details.
Posted by rjt at February 1, 2006 02:40 PM
Does that mean that the writers are all under 30, or that there were less than 30 writers used(which does not inspire confidence)?
And you're a fine actor, you just play dull people. Just as I always played people who had no idea what to say and who always stared at the ceiling. But given that, I nailed it.
Posted by: perj at February 2, 2006 11:12 AMI am in DC this weekend.
You can tell me that I suck
get there early if you want bacon, infidels. it goes fast. me, i stick to the coffee & perch on a stool with the sunday times book review.
live from astor place,
the lamb
ps, yes, red, you suck. no, i'm just kidding. put down the gin. red. put it down. put...
good.
Posted by: davidlamb at February 2, 2006 04:31 PMYes, we're upping the bacon supply after last month's shortages. By the way, Dave - it had just occurred to me today that you were there last month but in the hubbub I didn't really get to say hi.
So:
Hi.
Thanks for coming!
-R
Posted by: rjt at February 2, 2006 05:02 PMCongratulations. You deserve it. And just as an f.y.i. from an old (very old) print pro: readers may skip the story (and often the review!), but they ALWAYS read the sidebar.
Posted by: Mama-San at February 2, 2006 05:46 PMAmerican Heritage:
Alteration of hallo, alteration of obsolete holla, stop!, perhaps from Old French hola : ho, ho! + la, there (from Latin illc, that way).
Hello = Hola = You there - stop!
Ergo, I am grateful that you did not stop me on the way to the coffee.
Posted by: davidlamb at February 2, 2006 05:59 PMboy, those Phentamine people sure are redundant.
Boo!
Yes - a dozen drug spam comments over the weekend. Boo. All gone now.
Posted by: rjt at February 6, 2006 10:00 AMBoy, the spammers have this post dead to rights. I'm shutting down comments before deleting drug ads becomes a full time job.
Posted by: rjt at February 7, 2006 10:09 AM