Profile for Mister Matt

Tag said: "Read the LA Times article on Karen, and then after you throw up, you'll know why she is disliked."

I just read it.  Didn't throw up and I can't dislike her for her decisions and rationale.  I walked away from performing in Chicago theatte for very similar reasons and it has taken almost 20 years for the theatre community in Chicago to start owning up to the abusive practices that everyone let slide for FAR too long.  I can only i

I think Little Miss Sunshine was his one stumble among a rather stellar body of work.  It's nearly impossible to pick a favorite song, but the one that immediately springs to mind is Heart and Music from A New Brain.  I played the priest in one of the first regional productions in the US following the Lincoln Center run and it was a joy to perform every night.  The cast never wanted the run to end.  We received some rave reviews locally and William Finn called our thea

The only one I got to see was La Cage and I preferred this revival over the original staging, which always left me cold in its wildly lavish and unrealistic grandeur.  Yes, the original was visually stunning, but the millions spent on the designs, costumes and cast felt completely out of place to me in the story's setting.  I was really scratching my head wondering about a drag club in the 80s that had that kind of crazy budget, but the particular cast I saw didn't