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Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by...
Mike Daisey was the first to note that there were a few messy spots in his Tuesday night performance of "Tongues Will Wag," the monologue workshopped before a rapt American Repertory Theatre audience at the Zero Arrow. He remarked upon that fact as soon as the standing ovation applause subsided. He was right. "Tongues Will Wag" has a few rough patches - an overly used reference here, a missed identification there. But for a monologue...
Monopoly! will be tonight at 8:00 pm and tomorrow at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm at Zero Arrow. Mike Daisey kicks off his monologue "Monopoly!" with the following statement: "I've always had a love for endless games." And then a torrent of thoughts about the legendary board game of the same name come tumbling out of his mouth, and the game gets "bigger, weirder, and stranger." In the span of an hour and forty-five minutes,...
The storytellers of The Moth will read tomorrow, April 23, at the Calderwood Pavilion. Stories start at 8:00 pm, and tickets are $18. Nothing's worse when someone goes on and on about some random event in their lives, but a master storyteller can make even the most mundane moment absolutely delightful. New York storytelling collective The Moth will be at the Calderwood Pavilion tomorrow night with an impressive lineup. The host is Andy Borowitz, who...
Bostonist told you last night about how a group walked out of monologuist Mike Daisey's performance of "Invincible Summer" at ART on Thursday. One member of the 87-member group poured water onto the original outline Daisey uses for the show as the rest of the group left the space.
Monologuist Mike Daisey's performance of "Invincible Summer" at ART's Zero Arrow was interrupted Thursday night when an 87-member group stood and walked out of the performance space. During the walk-out, one member of the group approached Daisey's performance table and destroyed the outline the performer uses to tell his nightly tale, Daisey told Bostonist on Friday. Daisey posted to both the ART blog and his official website on Friday with a recap of what unfolded:...
Forget small talk or introductions. Mike Daisey hasn't the time. There are 90 minutes available to him to weave New York, subways, family, borscht and 9/11 into "Invincible Summer," the monologue now making its New England premiere at the Zero Arrow, and he's bursting at the seams with information. So, instead, he immediately begins to tell American Repertory Theatre patrons about his wedding. With this comes Daisey's assumption that his audience -- presented with Daisey,...
Mike Daisey is a monologuist. It’s a term that can be broken down into the act of telling stories to an audience through the uses of narrative structure and spontaneity. The Mainer-turned-Brooklynite has a table, glass of water and rough story outline available to him to weave together elements of his life, history and surroundings. "Invincible Summer," currently in a run at the American Repertory Theatre's Zero Arrow in Cambridge, touches upon Daisey's adaptation...