For the past ten days, I have been inside the Theater for the New City. I have been hanging lights, building platforms, dressing dummies, hanging dummies, and more often than not felt like a dummy. But it has all been worth it because I’ve been working on Pipeline Theatre Company’s production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, which is phenomenal. You should see it. Seriously. It runs through March 19th, features some very talented friends of mine, and is absolutely stunning. It’s been called “a tour-de-force fueled by an extraordinary cast” (NYTheatre.com). Here’s a video of audience reactions (which are positive) by The Orange Hats:
The show runs Wednesday-Sunday at Theater for the New City, 155 1st Avenue. 8PM, $18, $15 with student ID. More ticket information is available here. More information on Pipeline Theatre Company can be found at their website, or on Facebook. It’s Brecht, but funny. And good. What more could you ask?
Welcome to Colby Day’s Friday Film Review of The Shawshank Redemption. Everyone always said this movie’s really good, and it has Morgan Freeman, and blah, blah, blah, but let me tell you something, it’s really long. Even though I fell asleep during it, I don’t think I missed a whole lot. read more…
Here’s a video of William Shatner performing “It Was a Very Good Year,” which Sinatra originally made famous. Let’s hope Shatner someday covers all of Sinatra’s classics.
Fooled you with that “singing,” huh? It’s still just William Shatner saying stuff… like William Shatner, always… does. Thanks Freewilliamsburg for posting this a few days ago.
Welcome to Colby Day’s Friday Film Review of 28 Days Later. I watched this movie because I love seeing zombies kill things, and it was directed by the Slumdog guy. Unfortunately, there are more people laughing and running around grocery stores than there are zombies eating people to death. read more…
Welcome to Colby Day’s Friday Film Review of Home Alone. Everyone’s always talking about this movie being really good, and since it’s about Christmas, I thought I’d check it out instead of talking with my family. Also, I know a lot of people get hit in the balls, and that’s always funny!
Disclaimer: After watching the movie, only one person gets hit in the balls. Boring! read more…
This ran on the NY Times website, so if you care about news or Christmas you may have already seen it. But, a couple in New York has somehow started receiving hundreds of letters addressed to Santa Clause at their apartment in Chelsea, and decided, instead of burning them all, to actually try and help all of these children get what they want for Christmas. It’s actually nice people doing nice things. That’s a very rare thing, especially on this blog.
I can’t help but notice that the one guy seems like he really didn’t want to get these kids anything for Christmas, but they edited around that mostly.
Here’s the NMA’s (the Taiwanese animation station that does all news bizarrely) newly minted animation of the entire debacle surrounding all of the injuries on the Broadway musical “SpiderMan: Turn Down the Opposite of Light.”
Once again, I’m going to try not to comment on the musical’s safety record here, because, hey, more people die every year Alaskan crab fishing, you know? And we all love eating crab meat, just like we all love Spidermen.
Merry Wednesday, everyone. Did you realize the Inception score syncs up remarkably well with this year’s Coca Cola Christmas advertisement? NO? Well, it does.
This ad also does a great job of reminding us that Coca Cola and Santa are both frightening empires with control over our dreams. Thanks to The Daily What for bringing this to my attention.