By Kat Mokrynski “What we get really excited by is if you can get to a point where people are emotionally invested in the bollocks.” In late January, I was having drinks with a friend when he recommended a show … Continue reading Creating Bagbeard: An Interview with Crybabies
“The vastness of what we build, the level of ambition, is just incredible. You can really see that in absolutely every department that’s featured . . . It’s got a very high level of delivery and is unique in that … Continue reading The Burnt City Part Two – An Interview with Andrea Salazar
“Don’t worry if you get lost, you are already lost. That’s why you came here, into the dark to see the light. Not to be told a story, but to live inside a dream.” Over the past few months, I … Continue reading The Burnt City Part One: An Interview with Livi Vaughan
By Kat Mokrynski Picture: all rights reserved On January 11th, a new show will arrive at the SoHo Playhouse. Sugar Daddy, written and performed by Sam Morrison, takes audiences on a journey of love, grief, diabetes, and even seagull attacks. The show returns to New York City after receiving critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last August. I was lucky enough to have seen the show at one of its first performances back in March of 2020 at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn. Morrison moves beautifully between comedy and grief, allowing the audience to feel for him while also … Continue reading Creating Sugar Daddy – An Interview with Sam Morrison
By Kat Mokrynski Part One: Seeing The Play That Goes Wrong On Both Sides of the Ocean “I am Chris the director, and I would like to personally welcome you to what will be my directorical debut [Pronounced day-boo].” For those unfamilair with the show, The Play That Goes Wrong is a play within a play, in which members of Cornley Polytechnic’s Drama Society are putting on the murder mystery play, The Murder at Haversham Manor. Unfortunately for them, from the moment the curtain rises, everything starts going wrong, leading to chaos and comedy. One might argue that the main character … Continue reading [INTERVIEW] A Tale of Two Beans: A Conversation on Chris Bean in The Play That Goes Wrong
By Kat Mokrynski Picture: all rights reserved “It’s the final night recording Wibble the Dragon. The show is massively over-budget and underwritten. With one hour left to film 16 pages and an audience of children getting more and more impatient, the cast and crew know big cuddly heads are going to roll.” There’s a new Mischief show in town, and it’s darker than any of the ones that have come before. Good Luck Studio, written by Henry Shields and directed by Henry Lewis, made its world premiere at the Mercury Theatre in Colchester in September. The show brings audiences into … Continue reading Writing Good Luck, Studio – An Interview with Henry Shields
By Kat Mokrynski Picture: all rights reserved Boogaras, Shaniacs, and those in between, rejoice! Nearly a year after the final episode of BuzzFeed Unsolved, Ryan Bergara and Shane Madej have returned to their ghost hunting antics in a new show, … Continue reading “Ryan, Shane, and the Internet Hunt Ghosts” – An Interview with Ghost Files
“I know this dream of life is neverending / It goes around and round and round again / You know the sun is rising while descending / It goes on and on and never ends” – “Karnak’s Dream of Life,” … Continue reading [INTERVIEW] Ride the Cyclone Goes Viral
By Kat Mokrynski Picture: all rights reserved Come From Away, an incredible Broadway show, is closing on Sunday, October 2nd, after playing over 1,600 performances at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. The show tells the true story of 7,000 airplane passengers … Continue reading “Where There is Darkness, Only Light” – Honoring Come From Away with Q. Smith and Sharon Wheatley
