Irene Molloy’s story is incredible. She has been all over…emotionally, mentally, and physically…and she has absolutely come out on top. Getting to hear her story was extremely interesting, and I felt really privileged to experience it. Show Pony was a show that I think I could watch over and over again and still learn and gain more from it. Irene is a strong woman in so many ways, and it made her show all the more interesting. I think I was a lot more captivated by Show P

I never thought I’d be sitting down to write a post about a musical about Siegfried & Roy. But here we are, now that I’ve seen Shangri-La-La. And yes, it was a musical about the famous pair of Las Vegas magicians. Honestly, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like it. And I’ve seen a lot of musicals. This one fit the basic bill. It was bright and colorful. The songs were catchy and fit with the story that was being told. For a small show, the costumes, set, effects,

There are a lot of types of humor in this world. There’s typical humor, of course, but so many little branches that grow from that. There’s self-deprecating humor. There’s sad humor. There’s Jewish humor (trust me on that one, okay?) There is just so much, and My Needy Letters to Keith Urban collects all of these different kinds of humors and puts them into one sixty minute show. There was a lot more to the show, of course, but that variety of types of humor is what rea

Want to read some pre-show questions with Michael Hagins? Check them out here! Shakespeare can be really hard for people. Elizabethan English can be hard to follow…twisted plots and relationships can be hard to grasp. But there are people out there (myself included) who love Shakespeare. Yeah, we’re Shakespeare nerds. And one of the most amazing ones I’ve ever met, and had the pleasure to see on stage, was Michael Hagins. He’s someone who has a firm grasp on Shakespeare

You know those shows that are completely not what you thought they were going to be? That’s what Show Pony was for me. I walked in expecting one thing, and not too sure about what we’d be seeing, and I walked out thoroughly impressed and, in a way, changed. I absolutely love when that happens, honestly…these are the types of shows where I have preconceived notions, and I’m ecstatic that I’m proved wrong. From the small description I got about Show Pony, I thought I was go

The idea behind Conquering the Canon is extremely simple, but also extremely complicated. It’s a one-man show about Michael Hagins, the only African-American man to have been in all of Shakespeare’s canon. Well, sign me up yesterday! First of all, I am a huge Shakespeare fan, so I’ll eat up anything about the Bard. Secondly, I love when Shakespeare is performed differently from the way it was written. There’s a lot of that these days, with gender swapping and such. And

For me, there’s something about one-person shows that evokes so much in me. Especially when I’m watching something autobiographical. Some shows bring out more, and Is This Thing On? is one of those shows. Is This Thing On? is a one hour show by Adam Bradley, and one that was something completely eye opening and beautiful. There was so much to this play…there were moments to laugh, moments to cringe out, moments to cry, and so much more. I definitely ran the gamut of emot

Any Fringe can be a great vehicle to a new show. Writing and developing a show takes time, and when you’re pouring everything into that piece, you need a different kind of audience than you would get elsewhere. Fringe is good for a test. It’s sort of a smaller scale type of thing, and audiences going in know they’re going to be seeing something a bit different. You get to talk more about it, and continue to make it into something that will, someday, be absolutely grand. A

September is a busy month. With everything from theatres starting their seasons to Philly Fringe, there’s a lot going on. I think it’s absolutely amazing, and it’s super exciting for me and Zoe Writes Theatre, because we are raring to go. I have a super busy, but super exciting, three weeks coming up. Stuffing seven shows into a very narrow time window is quite the endeavor, but I know it will be so worth it. Can I just say I’m excited for all the one-person shows? Here

Philly Fringe is probably something in the know to everyone in the Philly theatre scene. For a glorious couple of weeks, venues known, unknown, and completely wacky, show plays that you probably wouldn’t see anywhere else. Fringe is all about doing something different…doing something daring. There are all sorts of shows that you would see at Fringe. The Yellow Bicycle Company in center city Philadelphia is one of those venues showing some truly remarkable looking plays. J

Okay, I can’t lie…I love plays that take me back to certain points in my life. It’s fun, and makes for an enjoyable watching...

I know I’ve expressed on here how much I love one man/one woman shows. I’ve seen a bunch in my time, and they’ve always proven to be...