Three New Photo Galleries

Birthday Karaoke

The IT Awards

The Grand Saloon

The Blood Brothers present... PULP

featuring
Gyda Arber, Michael Criscuolo, Jessi Gotta,

Anna Kull, Marc Landers, Brian Silliman

Listening To Reason

by James Comtois

Directed by Matt Johnston

Dead Things Kill Nicely

by Qui Nguyen

Directed by Pete Boisvert & Patrick Shearer

Best Served Cold

by Mac Rogers

Directed by Pete Boisvert & Patrick Shearer

With additional material directed by

Rebecca Comtois and Stephanie Cox-Williams

The 78th Street Theatre Lab

October 11-13, 18-20, 25-27, Thursday through Saturday, 8 p.m.

“For sheer playful fun, make this gory confection your Halloween treat."

Time Out New York

“Sheer, merry sadism, sexual savagery, and witty humor."

The Off-Off-Broadway Review

A deranged psycho killer, deaf to pleas for mercy, tries one last-ditch effort to dodge the cops through the reluctant help of one terrified hostage. Molly, a young teen looking for a quick snog in the woods, now has to cover a zombie hicky. And Brianne has to keep Marybeth from pulling the trigger for just eight more minutes, but learns that, when talking for one’s life, time has a way of slowing down.

This is The Blood Brothers Present: PULP, Nosedive Productions’ follow-up to last year’s Blood Brothers Present: An Evening of Grand Guignol Horror. James Comtois (The Adventures of Nervous-Boy), Qui Nguyen (Men of Steel, Living Dead in Denmark) and Mac Rogers (Universal Robots, Hail Satan), New York indie theatre scene’s hottest — and let’s face it, sickest — playwrights write three original works inspired by the pulp horror comics and short stories of the 1940s and ‘50s.

The Blood Brothers Present: PULP features graphic violence and strong sexual situations and is recommended for adults only.

The Blood Brothers Present will be performed at the 78th Street Theatre Lab (236 West 78th St. at Broadway) October 11-13, 18-20, 25-27 (Thursday through Saturday). All shows are at 8 p.m. and tickets are $18. Subway: 1 to 79th Street; A to 81st Street; or 1 2 or 3 to 72nd Street. For tickets call 212-352-3101 or visit http://www.theatermania.com/.

THE SATURDAY NIGHT SALOON

Come on down to the Battle Ranch in Williamsburg this Saturday night for a chance to check out "Pinkie", James' new Western-Noir serial. Featuring Christopher Yustin, Rebecca Comtois, Brian Silliman and the playwright himself, it should be a lot of fun!

THE SATURDAY NIGHT SALOON
a semi-monthly party at THE BATTLE RANCH
featuring brand new genre-bending serialized plays by NYC's hottest indie theatre artists.

From Sci-fi Teenage Sex Comedies to Old West Film Noir, these new series will have you foaming at the mouth for the next installment.And the best part, it's all FREE!Plus for a $5 donation, all-you-can-drink beer (or until we run out).

BE THERE FROM THE BEGINNING!
DON'T MISS OUT ON THE PILOT EPISODE!
Featuring all new exciting ongoing series by:
James ComtoisCo-Artistic Director of Nosedive Productions
Jeff LewonczykCo-Artistic Director of Piper McKenzie Productions & The Brick Theater
A. Rey PamatmatMember of The Ma-Yi Writers Lab
Robert Ross ParkerCo-Artistic Director of Vampire Cowboys
Webb WilcoxenMember of LAByrinth Theater Company & Developing Artists Theater Company

Saturday, September 29th, 2007 @ 8pmFREE ADMISSION!
at THE BATTLE RANCH111 Conselyea Street, #2LWilliamsburg, Brooklyn
Click here for a map!For more information, check out the VC website

Who Scribbles the Scribbler?

Looks like Jeremy is posting Leave Freeze or Die on a semi-weekly basis these days. Here's one of the latest, which basically recreates my divorce as a Beatles tune. Much fun!



Also, new link up to Jeremy's blog, Improper Pronoun. A funny, funny man... seriously, check him out.

reviewing respite

So with the NY International Fringe Festival and the majority of the other summer fringes closed, it looks like the bulk of my summer reviewing is over. This has been a really interesting experiment for me... I don't think of myself as a writer, and certainly hadn't had to write anything on deadline since college. I got a lot out of it though; the challenge of having to have coherent, relatively text that I feel good about standing behind, delivered within 48 hours has been stressful but ultimately very rewarding.

The cool news is that Martin has asked James and I to continue on as permanent reviewers for nytheatre. I'm taking a brief break at the moment in order to get rehearsals off the ground for the new Blood Brothers show, PULP, but in a few weeks I should be back to reviewing. Looking forward to it...

summer winds down