Join Phil Berman at Puppet Showplace Theater as he plays through his new record “The Battle of Bunker Hill,” featuring an intimate string ensemble and special guest Veronica Barron (that’s…
Aimee Rose Ranger and I are making our first new piece together since we made Winning Higgins’s Love: a clown tragedy way back in 2011. We are excited. (!!!) You…
We’ve had a fun new year season for Winning Higgins’s Love: a clown tragedy: performing at a large public festival (First Night Boston, as part of Puppet Showplace Theater Late Night Puppet Cabaret)… and…
I’m delighted to be making my Huntington Theatre Company debut playing a variety of maids, patients, and 19th-century vaudeville girls in Ether Dome, a new historical drama (with many darkly…
Last Sunday, September 21st, I completed my second annual Ride for Food on behalf of Food For Free, the scrappy Cambridge nonprofit I work for part-time. We are an anti-hunger…
I’ll be joining UNIMA-winning puppeteers Sarah Frechette and Faye Dupras as the third puppeteer/performer in Sarah’s/PUPPETKABOB’s What the Moon Saw, a fairy tale for kids and grownups adapted from Hans Christian…
I’m so pleased to have composed new music and vocal arrangements, set to playwright Bryony Lavery’s lyrics, for The Nora Theatre Company’s Her Aching Heart, presented at the Central Square…
The beautiful music is written by Nathan Leigh, composer of the score for ICARUS.
Vinegar Tom was a special project, and those of us involved still talk about it as such. It’s on my mind now, as I recently attended Whistler in the Dark’s…
After last year’s shows in Cambridge, at the Outside the Box festival, and our thrilling run at the NY Musical Theater Festival last year, Icarus returns! Liars and Believers are now…
Many folks who know my background know that I trained in India for four months in classical dance-theater. It taught me precision of gesture and aliveness of eyes, which I…
My friend and colleague Danny Bryck has until March 28th to meet his Kickstarter funding goal—if you’re moved by this project, as I am, you can view the trailer, learn more, and contribute…
Interference: what a satisfying project, the latest from Liars and Believers (of last year’s Icarus!) Photos by C.McIntosh Photo and used with permission. See more of his work here! I got to work with…
My Shakespeare/James Bond-inspired murder ballad is now available for download via Bandcamp. Enjoy! Find me on Photo credit: Daniel Chodusov under CC license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/)
I had the pleasure of playing the kickin’ 35Below wrap party for the Huntington Theatre Company’s VENUS IN FUR on Friday night. We played a jazzy-bluesy-slinky-loungey set with a freshly-minted and delightful lineup…
I was so delighted to participate in the second annual Youth Traditional Song weekend this past weekend! I learned many great new songs, heard many beautiful voices, and learned more…
My niece Edith didn’t want to sit in the park and listen to me playing my guitar; SHE wanted to play. We solved this problem together: she slid herself under…
So I recently had an experience I never thought I’d have: I performed in a musical on 42nd Street in New York. Why did I never think I would have…
This summer, I learned about the existence of a thing called a Spiegeltent. photo by Lorianne DiSabato Apparently, the word is Dutch for “mirror tent”, though it seems that a…
I recently collaborated with Brad Shur, Brenda Huggins, Phil Berman, Kaitee Tredway, and others under the direction of Roxanna Myhrum for an outdoor giant puppet show! Goldie, a Puppet Showplace…
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