Kaliyuga Arts

02/13/2025

Our production history has suddenly undergone a re-appraisal, it seems. Had inquiries this week about our productions of Al Carmines' IN CIRCLES and Michael Ondaatje's THE COLLECTED WORKS OF BILLY THE KID, and a post about South Coast Rep's production of Robert Montgomery's SUBJECT TO FITS provoked a response about KA's SF production in 1999. What an incredible legacy of work our little production company left in its wake!

10/27/2024

Here it is.

I think there’s an answer. But it’s not age — or, at least, it’s not just age.

10/26/2024

Sunday's matinee is almost fully booked. Wanna catch Peter Samelson's phenomenal MAGIC, LOVE, MYSTERY? Better book your tickets for tonight's performance while there are still seats available! bridgest.org/magic-love-mystery/

10/07/2024

I learned something.

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09/19/2024

This is what started it all. Yikes. Most of the Trump properties shown in the video were in bankruptcy. He was desparate. This is how NBC (Mark Bernett, just coming off of Survivor) made him famous.

09/12/2024

In case you needed some pangrams in French.

Buvez de ce whisky que le patron juge fameux. (36)
Drink some of this whisky which the boss finds excellent.
Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume
Take this old whisky to the blond smoking judge
Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui a fumé. (variant with "é")
Take this old whisky to the blond judge who has smoked.
Bâchez la queue du wagon-taxi avec les pyjamas du fakir
Tarpaulin up the taxi-railcar tail with the fakir’s pajamas
Voyez le brick géant que j'examine près du wharf
See the giant brig which I examine near the wharf
Voix ambiguë d'un cœur qui au zéphyr préfère les jattes de kiwi
Ambiguous voice of a heart which prefers kiwi bowls to a zephyr
Monsieur Jack, vous dactylographiez bien mieux que votre ami Wolf
Mister Jack, you typed much better than your friend Wolf [was used in the Swiss army to check the keyboard of typewriters before teletransmission]
More here.
https://clagnut.com/blog/2380?

There used to be a page on Wikipedia listing pangrams in various languages. This was deleted yesterday. Pangrams can be occasioanlly useful for designers, so I’ve resurrected the page of here, pretty much as it was in Wikipedia.

09/11/2024

The awards are posted.
Here's one.

Purple Prose
Winner

Hungover, Bethany walked out onto the deck of her Malibu Beach beachhouse, her pimento-less olive-green eyes scouring the sand below like two Brillo pads, while a thundering blitzkrieg continued hammering within her head like demolition wrecking balls repeatedly smashing against concrete walls while accompanied by the deafening salvos of the cannons from the 1812 Overture.

Robert Wolf, Pittsburgh, PA

These are the 2024 winners of the annual Bulwer-Lytton Awards for the worst opening sentences in a novel.

A whimsical literary competition for the worst possible opening sentences to novels never written.

08/31/2024

A statement for Kamala Harris to make against her opponant, who is now claiming to be the champion of women's reproductive rights.
"How can those who profess to be followers of Jesus cast a ballot for this candidate, once the excuse of casting a pro-life vote is gone? For a convicted felon and a pathological liar, a man who has peddled racist conspiracy theories, cozied up to the world’s worst dictators, blackmailed an American ally, invited a hostile foreign power to interfere in American elections, defamed POWs and the war dead, mocked people with handicaps, and encouraged political violence? How can they continue to stand in solidarity with a person who has threatened prosecutors, judges, and the families of judges; who attempted to overthrow an election; who assembled a violent mob and directed it to march on the Capitol; and who encouraged the mob to hang his vice president?"
From

The pro-life justification for supporting the former president has now collapsed.

08/31/2024

It's utterly astounding to me that something Carl created out of the emptiness and despair he was feeling during the COVID shutdown wound up being so laugh-out-loud funny! You leave his OUT OF ORDER feeling like you've made a new best friend. Don't pass up the opportunity to experience this totally unique ... I'm not even sure what to call it. It's completely different than any other piece of theater I've ever seen, and gets to you in ways it's impossible to describe.

Through September 8 only. Tickets and info at bridgest.org/out-of-order/

08/29/2024

Carl Holder's OUT OF ORDER opens a two-weekend run tonight! 50 index cards in a bin are selected at random and performed in the order (whatever it is) that the universe dictates. Come party with your new friend Carl and play the most remarkable theatrical parlor game ever! Thurs - Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 2:00pm August 29-September 8. Doors open one half hour before curtain time & seating is unreserved. Advance tickets and more details at bridgest.org/out-of-order/

08/25/2024

Don't miss Carl Holder's OUT OF ORDER at Bridge Street Theatre August 29-September 8 only!

Born in Gainesville Florida, Carl Holder received his BFA in Acting from SUNY Purchase (2008), and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU/Tisch (2020). His play Until You Come Back to Me won the 2020 Goldberg Play Prize and was a Finalist for the 2019 Neukom Literary Arts Playwriting Award. Carl was also a Semi-Finalist for The Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights Center. His play Waiter and Two Octopuses was a Semi-Finalist for the 2019 O'Neill Playwrights Conference and a 2018/19 Finalist for the DVRF Playwrights Program. Charleses received an Honorable Mention for The Relentless Award from The American Playwriting Foundation. Holder has twice been awarded an E-Grant from The Foundation for Contemporary Art for his plays An Intimate Evening with Typhoid Mary, and re:opening. Carl has developed and/or performed work with Ars Nova, Incubator Arts Project, EST, Dennis and Victoria Ross Foundation, The Tank, FringeNYC, The Brick, Standard Toykraft, The Gym at Judson, House of Yes, Hearth Gods, Allegra LaViola Gallery, The Gene Frankel, Ice Factory and The New Ohio. Carl has written, acted, and directed as Artistic Director of Glass Bandits Theater Company since 2008. He was recently a member of The Bricks Inaugural Writer’s Group ‘SoundLab’ a residency developing fiction podcasts with playwrights. Carl has been a Scriptwriting Professor for the University of Virginia's Young Writers Workshop, the Performing Arts Instructor at Garden School in Jackson Heights Queens, Guest Artist/Workshop Instructor for SPARC New Voices, and guest lecturer in the Acting departments of SUNY Purchase and The New School. Carl is currently teaching for NYU/Tisch’s Department of Dramatic Writing, as well as Playwriting Intensives through The Brick’s education program. Carl lives in Brooklyn.

Wanna see more? Here's a link to Carl's acting reel, which'll give you some idea of his off-beat comic sensibilities.

08/20/2024

From The Browser today.
“‘Tis my faith that every flower enjoys the air it breathes”
— Beatrix Potter

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