Paul Sparks, the well-regarded downtown actor, plays the owner of a landscaping business with a dark secret in his past.
In 2004, he enlisted John Cameron Mitchell, the downtown actor and director, to produce a benefit for Freedom to Marry, a nonprofit organization devoted to same-sex marriage.
With this unique and strangely bewitching work Mr. Greenspan, a quirky downtown actor and an avant-garde playwright, proves himself once again to be a theatrical conjurer of rare gifts.
The Tony Award-winning actor Mandy Patinkin and the downtown actor, performance artist and playwright Taylor Mac will team up in December for a new Off Broadway piece, "The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville," telling the history of humanity through music ranging from Rodgers and Hammerstein to R.E.M., Classic Stage Company announced on Monday.
Louise Chantal, a young British producer, was using strong reviews in Edinburgh to drum up attention for coming London runs of both "How to Act Around Cops" and "Thom Pain (based on nothing)," a creepily sweet monologue about a misanthropic loner (played by the downtown actor James Urbaniak).
It may not be quite on the level of the 1969 Mets or the 1980 American Olympic hockey team, but come Sunday night, if all indications hold, a downtown actor named Jefferson Mays may very well take his place among the most unlikely -- and most deserving -- winners this city has ever seen.
A downtown actor known for adapting his own often raucous and sexually explicit work — "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "Shortbus" — Mr. Mitchell was an unorthodox choice to direct an intimate story about the differing ways a couple cope with the accidental death of their young son.
(Or are they?) Much about this MCC Theater production is as unconventional as Mr. Gaiman's story: the wry composer Stephin Merritt wrote the music and lyrics; the downtown actor and playwright David Greenspan wrote the book; and Jayne Houdyshell ("Well") has been cast as the 9-year-old heroine, while Mr. Greenspan will portray the second world's "Other Mother".
The downtown theater actor Paul Sparks puts his large eyes to disturbingly effective use.
Most of my other customers were part of the standard downtown crowd -- actors, ad folk and ex-dot-commers.
