The Stage
Chicago’s BoHo Appoints New Artistic Director Elizabeth Swanson
Award-winning international nonbinary theater production professional Elizabeth Swanson named Chicago’s BoHo Theatre’s new artistic director by Heather Cassell Chicago’s BoHo Theatre announced the appointment of Elizabeth Swanson as the theater company’s new artistic director earlier this month. “While producing theater looks different these days, I am reassured knowing we have Elizabeth as our new artistic […]
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Staging An Actor’s Life With Utopia Theatre
Bay Area Actor Anne Yumi Kobori Creates Her Own Life On The Stage by Heather Cassell Theater has been in Anne Yumi Kobori’s blood since childhood. She was always performing along with her sister who was a dancer. It was perhaps inherited by her mother’s birthmother who was who was an actress, singer, and dancer […]
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‘Every Day Alice’ Thought-Provoking Look At Creativity And Mental Health
The Characters Of “Alice In Wonderland” And “Peter Pan” Are Reimagined In An Original Modern Play by Heather Cassell Wander down the rabbit hole into an artist’s mind as she struggles to balance living creatively and sanely in order to function in the world. This is Alice’s (Anne Yumi Kobori) world in Every Day Alice, […]
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Being Funny In A Man’s World, Desi Women Comedians Speak Out
It’s still a man’s world in the standup comedy. There’s no joking about it. Then factor in being South Asian. What’s the immediate image that comes to mind? If you are in America, which we are, it might be a nerdy computer engineer who speaks English with a heavy accent. Yeah, no. Mix up the gender what image do you have now? You draw a blank, well you used to until Mindy Kaling arrived in American homes through television shows, “The Office” and then her own show “The Mindy Project.”
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Belinda Carroll’s Knack For Being Funny
The café in the Pacific Northwest coastal town was shaking with laughter as Portland-based comedian Belinda Carroll delivered the laughs straight up (so-to-speak) during the first annual EDEN Pacific Northwest.
This year the Portland-based comedian is back as a part of the comedic crew – that includes Julie Goldman and D’Lo – to deliver those punch lines that will leave the women doubled over in laughter during the all-girl weekend getaway in Seaside, Oregon, October 2 – 5.
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D’Lo Knows No Boundaries In Comedy and Travel
It doesn’t hurt having friends in many places, especially if your life consists of being on the road much of the time, at least that’s what comedian D’Lo has found.
Knowing artists and activists in different cities allows the queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American to not feel like such an outsider, he says.
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Iconic Sheila E Beats To Her Own Drum
Sheila Escovedo, better known as Emmy and Grammy nominated Sheila E, is singing her own songs and drumming to her own beat these days.
Sheila E hit it big in the 1980s with songs “The Glamorous Life,” “A Love Bizarre,” and her collaboration with her friend and former lover Prince, “Erotic City.”
The Oakland native, who currently lives in Los Angeles, is following up the released her latest album, Icon, at the beginning of the summer with her tell-all memoire, The Beat of My Own Drum: A Memoir, available September 2.
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70s and Sunny: A Walk Down Memory Lane with Andrea McArdle
Broadway star and Tony-nominated actor and singer Andrea McArdle fell in love with music in her family’s Philadelphia home. She would tune her parent’s two stereos to her favorite stations and sing-a-long to the decade’s greatest hits.
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Eve’s Garden Of Eden
Eve returns to the Garden of Eden, well may be the modern day version of Eden, which is a women’s weekend filled with great clothes, food, music, comedy and celebrities during Pride Weekend in the City by the Bay.
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It’s a World of Laughter with Comedian Dana Goldberg
For the past 10 years, comedian Dana Goldberg has created a laugh track around the world and she ready to do it all again for the next decade.
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Backstage: Fortune Feimster is Sooo Silly
If you don’t know Fortune Feimster you will soon. The “Chelsea Lately” writer is rapidly becoming a comedy star in her own right.
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