SketchFest NYC starts tomorrow!!! YAY!!! I really hope you can catch a show or 21. If you wanna come out and support the all lady groups like the ones I’ve mentioned, here are their scheduled dates,

Two Girls for $5 - performing on a bill w/ Tybrus. – Thursday, June 7th, 11pm
MEAT – Friday June 8th, 10pm
Becky & Noelle – performing on a bill w/ kevINda – Saturday, June […]

One week away!!! And for this installment of Countdown to SFNYC I asked Elizabeth Ellis of MEAT (and co-producer of SFNYC) to interview one of her favoritest sketch women around. She picked the totally amazing, wonder woman of a human being Jordana Barnes of Portland’s The 3rd Floor (playing Friday the 8th). Read as they wax philosophical on women in comedy, childhood fantasies, and talk about their sketch relationships. […]

Two Girls for $5 is a comedy duo birthed in Boston and performing all over this great nation. Self described as a “portrayal of lonely ladies who do desperate things”, they have a way of making that fun to watch (and read!) instead of just sad and uncomfortable. You may have caught them during their run last year at The PIT or more recently at the LA Comedy Festival. They will […]

In the deli this morning, waiting for my eggs ‘n’ bacon on a roll, an ad for the new Phil Collins musical, yes musical, came on the radio. As cheesy welling strings filled the room, the involuntary muscle that is my heart filled with it. But just as manipulation was about to overtake me, I smiled a secret smile knowing that I had been touched more deeply than even Phil Collins could […]

In one month (June 7-9th) SketchFest NYC is returning for it’s third year. SketchFest NYC is one of many Sketchfests (sketch comedy festivals) popping up around the nation and Canada since 1999, the first of which was Sketchfest Seattle. There are festivals in Chicago, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto, etc. The talent is supreme and the community something I will cherish for the rest of […]

I hear a lot of people often making cracks about “The Vagina Monologues.”  This is probably just due to lack of awareness of why it is performed so much. Sure, from an outsider’s perspective, the show is over-exposed and overdone. What most people don’t know is that it is done worldwide this time of year as a part of  V-Day– a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. The V-day mission is:  “A catalyst that promotes […]

This is Leslie Kritzer. Learn her name, because she’s going to kick you in the face with her voice when you see her at Joe’s Pub next month. Oh, and you will see her next month. Because I don’t figure you for a moron.

Leslie, in the genius tradition of not Rufus Wainright, and the yet-to-be-staged letter-perfect re-enactment of Liza with a ‘Z’ I intend to do once I am diagnosed with a fatal […]

Hey dudes, this show looks like a really good time, yes? Great space, great folks, great idea!

Cheryl B. Presents:
PVC: The POETRY vs. COMEDY VARIETY SHOW
November 2nd, 8PM
Galapagos Arts Space
70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn
L Train to Bedford Ave.
FREE
www.myspace.com/pvcshow

About the Show:
PVC is neither an ordinary poetry slam nor a stand-up comedy show. The Poetry Vs. Comedy Variety Show is a battle of wits and rhymes where the stanzas and […]

For any former moppet who’s ever donned rags and belted out voice-shredding anthems of Depression-era optimism like “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile,” for an audience of watch-checking parents who hate you for trying too hard, you’re as psyched as I am for this documentary.

Premiering at MTR before its debut on Showtime around Christmas, “Life After Tomorrow” is a documentary featuring over 40 women who have played orphans in the Broadway production […]

Donna Lynne Champlin is more than a triple threat. She can dance, sing and act, for sure, but she’s also a musician, writer, composer, choreographer and more…which makes her a whirling dervish of threatening artistic abilities. Plus, she’s super-bright.

I first saw Champlin as the barber Pirelli in last year’s revolutionary revival of SWEENEY TODD. She stood out, which is no small feat in such a heartstopping ensemble. I left thinking “That gal […]