Every weekend, musical theatre fans can tune their radios (or their web browsers) to WERS, Emerson College’s award-winning radio station, to listen to Standing Room Only: Boston’s only musical theatre radio show. Hosted by a theatre-loving, radio-savvy student, it’s a wildly popular program in an entertainment form that, against the odds, has stood the test …
Month: December 2020
Season’s Greetings from Simahk Writes! I wrote this little poem years ago, after a shift at the restaurant where I was working at the time. It’s a dramatized telling of a true story, and I believe it’s still relevant, even in this crazy year that’s so different than any year any of us has ever …
Wearing glasses, a scally cap, and a charming smile, Paul Aguirre appears on my computer screen. He’s at his house in Fairfield, Connecticut, where he lives with his boyfriend and their pets. “We have two fur-children,” he tells me: “a dog and a cat.” Having grown up in upstate New York, he’s not too far …
“I loved the Ninja Turtles,” Dana D’Adamo tells me. “Do you remember the live-action Ninja Turtles growing up? I would look at all their costumes and I would look at their breathable holes, in their armpits and their crotch, like, ‘how did they make that?’” The accomplished Broadway stylist is talking to me from her …
Born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan, lifelong actor James Leo Ryan (whom I know as Jimmy) is energetic, charismatic, and always excited for what’s next. He’s talking to me remotely from his Los Angeles home, which he shares with Rodney, his partner of 13 years. “I started when I was six,” he tells me. “I …
“This story gives me goosebumps every time I talk about it,” says Kelli Youngman. “I had this moment where I was like, ‘you know what? I’m going to be on Broadway.’” Just a few years after having this epiphany, she’s been on Broadway twice. She’s toured the country and performed at major regional theatres …
On a non-pandemic evening, a Seattle theatre patron may venture to the 5th Avenue Theatre, look into the orchestra pit, and orient their gaze toward the percussion section. There at the drums, sporting round-framed glasses and a flowing mane, is Paul Hansen. It’s a bit of a cliché to say that he’s done it all, …
Not far from San Francisco, across the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, set beneath the redwoods of Northern California, you’ll find a small city called Mill Valley. First, the site was home to the Coast Miwok, an Indigenous people who lived off the land and fished from its waters. Later, Spanish missionaries swept through with bibles …