Lover of life, theater, song, style and typeface, and New York City in all its seasons, energy and many faces.
"WATCHMAGIC," a show of magic and comedy with Oz Pearlman, Saturdays at 5 p.m., through June 26, at the Joyous Life Theater, 119 West 23rd Street, seventh floor, Chelsea.
WATCHMAGIC, magic and comedy with Oz Pearlman, Saturdays at 5 p.m. through March 27 at the Joyous Life Theater, 119 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, (212) 35212101.
A surprising number of senior managers have always championed the hiring of young people who seem unlikely candidates for corporate life: theater majors, for instance, or campus activists with mediocre grades, or eccentric computer prodigies with few social skills.
But what may be most intriguing are the performers' mash-ups, interweavings of Shakespearean lines with rap riffs, as in this variation on a famous speech from "As You Like It": All the world's a stage, The men and women merely players: A life theater — played in many layers.
Mab: I've been a performer of one sort or another for most of my life; theater, dance, music, etc.
At screenings of "The Tingler" (1959), buzzers installed under some seats jolted spectators at a moment in the film when the monster is announced to have gotten loose in the real-life theater.
New York City already has more than 100 charter schools, mostly concentrated in areas like Harlem, the South Bronx and Brownsville, Brooklyn, where they have been so welcomed by poor parents that the annual lotteries for seats have become a kind of real-life theater.
But for politically themed, slice-of-life theater like this to work, you have to feel emotionally invested in the individuals who are shaped and manipulated by historical forces.
They hope to come up with a budget to realize the miniature version as a full-blown real-life theater experience with live actors and large-scale projections.
