Barrage of Photos from Colorado Trip

Colorado was loads of fun, work, and total destruction. Here are some lovely pictures :)

Inches from Done

I Hope You are Waltzing in the Wind Like a Feather

Remounting the BEER show for this Thursday. It's to raise funds for our trip out to Colorado's Great American Beer Festival performances!

The drive home was meditative. Buckeley and NPR were my copilots:

Recently

Rehearsals, more puppet building, Brad Smith at the Hideout, and Hungarian Bull's Blood wine:

Clay Worms are Delicious

Plus new kicks for super cheap:

Puppet Mania

Friends of Beer, Friends of Neo

The Neo-Futurists are taking BEER , the hit Neo-Futurist Puppet Musical, to sunny Denver, Colorado, in the midst of the Great American Beer Festival!!

We're raising money to take this show there. If you need something to do the next four Thursday nights, consider seeing this:

30 On Thursday
plays from the archives of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind

Thursday nights at 9:30 p.m.
August 20-September 10
at the Neo-Futurarium at Ashland and Foster

Past and present Neo-Futurists participate in a special run of the best plays from the archives of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, bringing the late-night hit to a new time slot for four performances only.

$15 for performance OR $20 for performance and 60 post-show minutes of local brew at Hopleaf Bar

There's also going to be a remount of BEER on Sept. 17th in the Metropolitan Brewery, if you missed it and like the idea of seeing it... or if you just want to see it again.

Puppets for Your Eyeball

Some works in progress from our upcoming puppet show, The Conqueror Worm, by Edgar Allen Poe. Dan and I are presenting it through a new performance piece by the Neo Futurists, entitled Fear.

Last Saturday's X-Rated Beer Puppet Show, Drawing, & Malort with Doug

You are Playing far too Rough for an Ape Who's been to the Moon

A few recent pages from An Army of Lovers will be Beaten Book 4:

I am Humbled & Laughing Pretty Hard

Oh Boy!

The Ecstacy of Pilsen

A Much Belated Bird Show Video from 2006

Check it out at my website or click below to watch it:

Shoot me an email/phone call if you'd like a high quality DVD of it!

Charbel Khalil

This puppet satire show "Democracy" by Charbel Khalil is pretty hypnotizing. I wish I spoke Arabic:

Read about him at the New York Times Website.

Our Magical Extravaganza

Another very nice article about our play, BEER:
Web Behrens at Chicago Free Press

Nice Press #3

Oo! Someone called me "ingenious!" I'm atwitter:

John Olson at Talkin Broadway
Rory Leahy at Centerstage

Nice Press #2

Click below to read them!

Hedy Weiss at the Sun Times
Randy Hardwick at the Chicago Critic
Tim McCormick at Time Out Magazine

Nice Press

Yay, the Chicago Reader said nice things about my play:

"Like the beverage, this Neo-Futurist show ain't classy. But it just may be the feel-good experience of the year. Ten-year-old Boon and his puppet sidekick, Puke--the nickname comes from an unfortunate encounter with piss beer--embark on a Wizard of Oz-like quest to learn the art of craft brewing and vanquish Bud Miller, evil purveyor of Millweiser. Along the way they meet beer ingredients in puppet form. In one of many ingenious touches in a lovingly crafted show, plastic jugs slung together create Hard Water, a bodybuilder, and Soft Water, a little old man. A talented five-piece band plays original songs and various roles. The only thing missing from this show--written by Sean Benjamin and Steve Mosqueda of Drinking and Writing fame, and directed by Dan Kerr-Hobert--is actual beer. Dress warm for the chilly setting, a working brewery. --Laura Molzahn $10-$15, pay what you can on Thursdays and during previews"

January 30, 2009

Happy Birthday, Bernie!
Our play, BEER, opened last night for a preview & it was a blast. I relearned how to form a Windsor necktie, put finishing touches on the puppets, and operated the slide show from above the giant beer cooler in the Metropolitan Brewery. AND they asked me to design the labels for their next line of Beers! Life's grand.