THRU Magazine Archive
This week, Post5 Theatre exposed themselves unabashedly for being irreverent Shakespeare producers, by performing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Revised. And Saturday night, they wrap up the Shakespeare season with Much Ado About Nothing, a 1950’s themed adaptation on the virtually ancient play. They have performed much of that sort of material: lively, […]
Talking with comedian, Tim Ledwith, whose quick climb to funny could not have been acheived without a life of tremendous experience. His light can not be eclipsed by the darkness from which he arrived. Or perhaps he makes you rethink the meaning of darkness. Learn more timledwithcomedy.tumblr.com.
Talking from Griffith Park in Los Angeles with Andrew Michaan, a Portland comic who recently relocated to the great city of film and television. He became locally famous for Comedy is OK in Portland, a video sketch comedy group. In the monologue, I reveal my gambling problem in a story about getting stuck at Morongo […]
I’m always ready to give credit to Lenny Bruce for contemporary trends in stand up comedy, alongside friends Mort Sahl, Jonathan Winters and the other “sick” comics, to whom we owe our concept of the modern comedic performer. Lenny’s output was tremendous, generating long form bits and sketch routines with multiple characters, yet always performed solo […]