Critical Mass

As always, photo by Ken Stein/Runs With Scissor
First of all, we are very excited to be named the Pick of the Week on OffOffOnline!  The great review is by Mitch Montgomery. It’s the first review so far in which I feel like the writer has a grasp on what we’re getting at, looking at [...]

More Blog Love

We received a wonderful little capsule review from Johanna Adams at BlindSquirrel Bloggings, which you can read here.  Oh what the hell, I’ll quote it as well:
Babylon Babylon. This is perhaps the best concept for a theater piece I have seen since attending a storefront production of Mary Zimmerman’s Arabian Nights 13 years ago in [...]

Review, Interview, Article

Danny Bowes, Robin Reed, Siobhan Doherty
(Credit Ken Stein/Runs with Scissors)
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Today brings with it a few new Babylonian items of note.
First off, Martin Denton at nytheatre.com has weighed in on the show with this review (WARNING – SPOILERS!). He is sympathetic and enthusiastic about the show’s ambitions, but does not feel satisfied by some [...]

SUCCESS!

If you ask me how we did it my mind will probably embark upon an infinite feedback loop and cause smoke to emerge from my ears and nostrils, but somehow or other we managed to turn in three fully realized and increasingly accomplished performances of BABYLON BABYLON this weekend! Huzzah!
No reviews yet, though press [...]

It Is Upon Us

Tonight is the second preview performance of BABYLON BABYLON, with three days of rehearsal under our belt after the first one, which we held last Saturday. I’ve been a bad blogger because I’ve been trying to be a good director and producer: every spare moment I’ve had since then has been devoted to trying [...]

Blog Love

Bloggers Michael Criscuolo, Ian W. Hill, and Qui Nguyen have already blogged about the show, which is damn appropriate considering they’re all on the creative team. However, we’ve also had a raft of other wonderful shout-outs from the likes of Matt Freeman, James Comtois, and the Charlie Willis blog – and they’re not even [...]

The Press Does Not Sleep

It appears that we’ve attracted the attention of the Mainstream Media. Time Out New York has chosen BABYLON BABYLON as one of its spring theater picks, one of only four Off-Off-Broadway shows selected (and the only one repping Brooklyn), along with the likes of Mike Daisey, Naomi Wallace, and Rob Erickson). The short [...]

It’s Film!

At long last… footage! Documentary filmmaker Art Wallace dropped by one of our rehearsals for an exclusive behind-the-scenes interview with us and – well, let’s just say the scope of the project is conveyed.

Go to Art’s YouTube channel to see many of his other films, including the LONG VERSION [...]

Show Push at Kush

Monday night marked Piper McKenzie’s first-ever pre-show benefit party, which we really should have called the Babylon Babylon Benefit Benefit, but what can you do. Over 50 people came to Kush Lounge on the Lower East Side to eat, drink, smoke hookahs (legally!) and be entertained by a bevy of talented friends and colleagues. [...]

Blasphemy as Theatre

[It is my pleasure to hand the reins of Babylblog Blogbylon over to a guest commentator: cast member Heather Lee Rogers, who will be playing the role of Erishka in the show.   Take it away, Heather! --JL]
Reading Jeff’s blog about being a kid in church brought up a lot of memories for me.  I was [...]