Go See a Show! Robert A. K. Gonyo

Listen in as Erin B. Mee, conceiver & director of Play In Your Bathtub: An Immersive Audio Spa for Physical Distancing, discusses why we should call it “physical” distancing as opposed to “social” distancing, getting inspiration from quarantine, engaging all five senses, inviting the audience to be creative themselves, putting everyone on the same time-line from their respective locations, and the importance of giving us a sense that we’re going to an “event” in these strange days.

“A lot of our work is really co-created with the audience, in the sense that we have all kinds of ‘invitations’ …and I think this play is almost all invitation…because that’s where we are at this moment…”



This is Not a Theatre Company presents

Play In Your Bathtub:

An Immersive Audio Spa for Physical Distancing

conceived & directed by Erin B. Mee

thru Sunday, April 19, 2020

Your Bathroom

Your Street

Your City

tickets: FREE (but donations encouraged), reserved via Artful.ly

Listen in as Really Really Gorgeous playwright Nick Mecikalski discusses what happens when the media is filtered through only one lens, trust in personal relationships, the journey from digging a script out of a drawer to getting on the stage, the power of celebrity, and “what happens when climate change gets personal.”

“We know this is already happening for people around the world…the really scary questions that I think creep in the back of our minds…will it change whether I can follow my dreams? Will it change my career? Will it change where I have to live? Will it change my relationships?…”



The Tank in association with Lucy Powis and The Hodgepodge Group presents

Really Really Gorgeous

written by Nick Mecikalski

directed by Miranda Haymon

thru February 9, 2020

The Tank

312 W. 36th Street, 1st Floor

Manhattan

tickets: $20, $30 premium, available via Vendini

photos by Mari Uchida

Listen in as playwright Johnny G. Lloyd and director William Steinberger of Or, An Astronaut Play discuss capitalism, Emerson, childlike wonder, designing to your space, stealing kids’ artwork, and why the play goes to space school (as well as literal space).

“…it’s a play about race, and privilege, and access, but also, still, about finding access to that inner child, and finding a way to negotiate that…”



InVersion Theatre presents

Or, An Astronaut Play

written by Johnny G. Lloyd

directed by William Steinberger

thru January 26, 2020

The Tank

312 W. 36th Street, Floor 1

Manhattan

tickets: $20 ($30 premium), available via Vendini

photos by Skye Morse-Hodgson

Listen in as the performers of Lizzie Vieh’s new play Monsoon Season, Richard Thieriot & Therese Plaehn, discuss the development of this play from a 7-minute one-night-only solo piece to a set of solos, making something horrifying but also incredibly funny, how your performance changes when a play’s world expands, the benefit of working with smart, generous, welcoming people, and what can can happen when the seed of a piece is tossed into fertile ground.

“…so it’s dark, and the emotional terrain is dark, but there’s also, hopefully, occasionally, laughs […]”

“…I remember being disturbed…and sure enough, it’s funny as hell…”



All For One Theater presents

Monsoon Season

written by Lizzie Vieh

directed by Kristin McCarthy Parker

thru November 23, 2019

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

224 Waverly Place

Manhattan

tickets: $26 general, $36 reserved, $101 Sponsor, available via OvationTix

photos by Maria Baranova

Listen in as GSAS! correspondent Alex Randrup meets with Of the Woman Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die director Kylie M. Brown, along with producer Leigh Honigman, to discuss basement cults, Biblical inspiration & imagery, the marketability of femininity, ushering a new text to maturity, ritual & retail, accepting the weirdness to find the grounded truth, & living under late capitalism while femme.

“…what I see this show as, is femmes living in boxes, and trying their best to get out of said boxes. And we burn the boxes down. Simple enough.”



Normal Ave and Leigh Honigman present

Of the Woman Came the Beginning of Sin and Through Her We All Die

written by Lily Houghton

directed by Kylie M. Brown

thru October 26, 2019

Medicine Show Theatre

549 W. 52nd Street, 3rd Floor

Manhattan

tickets: $30 premium, $20 general, available via the Normal Ave website

photos by Sub/Urban Photography

Listen in as “Strangers in the Night” contributing playwrights Patricia Lynn (writer of Screwed, portrayer of “Molly”, director of Frank) & Philip Estrera (writer of the Frank monologues, who also performs “Stranger” in Bottling Dreams of the Tearful Don’t-Knower), along with fellow Bottling… actor Natalie Hegg (“Other Half”), discuss creating a complete theatrical experience out of one act plays, sketches in rehearsal, provocative nocturnal stories, doing that one thing well, collaboration, different extremes of theatricality, & the intimacy that can develop between total strangers.

“…one little thing would totally change the way the scene would go…a creative, supportive battleground…”



Hunger and Thirst Theatre presents

Strangers in the Night

written by Patricia Lynn, Emily Kitchens, & Philip Estrera

directed by Caitlin Davies, Paul Kite, & Patricia Lynn

thru October 26, 2019

The West End Theatre

263 W. 86th Street

Manhattan

tickets: $20, available via artful.ly







photos by Al Foote III