It's not easy to describe what Randy Weiner does for a living. Some people call him an "impresario," but he comes across more like a mild-mannered cardiologist than like P. T. Barnum. With his wife, the director Diane Paulus, he created "The Donkey Show," a disco version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" that ran Off Broadway from 1999 to 2005. More recently, he founded the seedy-opulent Lower East Side burlesque club t…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 12:00AM on April 21, 2017