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Backstage Bits: Why attempt a one-person show? For these D-FW performers, it's personal
Dallas News Joey Folsom didn't write the one-man show Lenny Bruce Is Back. But the way Bruce's comedy routine lanced hypocrisy in this Sam Bobrick and Julie Stein play spoke to him, Folsom says. Plus, a one-man show gives him the opportunity to test out a new way … |
Today In History, Aug. 3: Jesse Owens – STLtoday.com
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Today In History, Aug. 3: Jesse Owens
STLtoday.com 1966: Lenny Bruce. AP; Aug 2, 2017. In 1966, comedian Lenny Bruce, whose raunchy brand of satire and dark humor landed him in trouble with the law, was found dead in his Los Angeles home; he was 40. 1981: Air Traffic Controllers. 8 … |
Q&A: Joey Folsom – TheaterJones Performing Arts News
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Q&A: Joey Folsom
TheaterJones Performing Arts News Lenny Bruce is Back reflects the commitment of Folsom's Upstart Productions to socially relevant work in non-traditional venues. Nathan Autrey directs; Bren Rapp produces. The one-man, 70-minute play by Sam Bobrick and Julie Stein places Bruce at his … |
Sam Shepard, the cowboy playwright who rewrote the rules of the American stage – Los Angeles Times
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Sam Shepard, the cowboy playwright who rewrote the rules of the American stage
Los Angeles Times Why shouldn't theater artists pose as direct an assault on the senses as a Charlie Parker jazz riff or a Janis Joplin wail or a Jackson Pollock action painting or a Lenny Bruce harangue? Shepard didn't see why he should have to choose between Beckett … |
Scaramucci’s Swearing – New York Sun
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Scaramucci's Swearing
New York Sun The way they talk now on late night television these days would make prompt Lenny Bruce himself to call the cops. Which may well be why President Trump, a compulsive watcher of television, himself seems so inured to such talk. It's hard to say when all … |
One-Man Show Lenny Bruce Is Back Visits Dallas Comedy and … – Dallas Observer
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One-Man Show Lenny Bruce Is Back Visits Dallas Comedy and …
Dallas Observer Joe Folsom is quick to defend one of the most influential and controversial performers of the 20th century, Lenny Bruce. “He's wasn't an asshole, he… It's the Bruce and Burlesque Bash! |
Show Brings Controversial Comedian Lenny Bruce Back to Life in Dallas Clubs – Dallas Observer
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Show Brings Controversial Comedian Lenny Bruce Back to Life in Dallas Clubs
Dallas Observer Joe Folsom is quick to defend one of the most influential and controversial performers of the 20th century, Lenny Bruce: “He's wasn't an asshole; he just didn't suffer assholes," he says. Bruce was famously misunderstood and was arrested numerous times … It's the Bruce and Burlesque Bash! |
1967’s Other Summer of Love – New York Times (blog)
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1967's Other Summer of Love
New York Times (blog) It was while studying psychology at Rutgers University in 1963 that he first went to the Lower East Side to see Lenny Bruce perform. He also rode a motorcycle and supplied pot to his “intellectual friends,” who were “discussing everything from Buddha … |
All You Need To Know About: Neil Diamond in Vancouver – Straight.com
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All You Need To Know About: Neil Diamond in Vancouver
Straight.com In a 1976 Rolling Stone profile he admitted to going into therapy after auditioning for a film about Lenny Bruce. “Suddenly here I was, speaking words that I had never spoken before,” Diamond told writer Ben Fong-Torres. Out of his sessions Diamond … |
Critically Acclaimed Show I AM NOT A COMEDIAN…I’M LENNY BRUCE Extends – Broadway World
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Critically Acclaimed Show I AM NOT A COMEDIAN…I'M LENNY BRUCE Extends
Broadway World I'M LENNY BRUCE Extends Theatre 68 is excited to announce the extension of "I AM NOT A COMEDIAN…I'M Lenny Bruce" – Directed by Joe Mantegna, the World Premiere show stars Ronnie Marmo as Lenny Bruce, has been such a hit, the Producers have … |