2,793 stories by "Michael Block"
We've heard stories about people getting involved in religious cults but we never imagined it could happen to us. Why does it happen? How does it happen? That's the story Diana Brown is abou…
We all have memories and visions of our parents. What they were like when we were kids. It's how we remember them. In Nicole Ferraro's breathtaking Why So Much Shame?, Ferraro recalls her fa…
We all grieve in different ways. And that's never been more true than in Kasey Brown and Marc J. Franklin's Thank You for Waiting. The drama follows a pair of old friends who happen upon the…
Name: Harrison BryanHometown: Brooklyn, New YorkEducation: Boston University, College of Fine Arts, BFA ActingFavorite Credits: Off Broadway: MCC's FreshPlay Festival (Clurman Theatre, Theat…
Name: Zach LibrescoHometown: Mineola, NYEducation: Wesleyan UniversitySelect Credits: The Shakespeare Forum's The Merchant of Venice (Lorenzo); dell'Arte Opera Ensemble's The Fairy Queen (De…
There are people in our lives that shape us into the people we become later in life. For Laura Force Scruggs, it was her grandpa. In Punk Grandpa, Scruggs offers a loving homage to the man w…
Sometimes an idea on paper sounds like brilliance but when it becomes a reality, it doesn't quite work as well as you thought. That may be the case with The Golden Smile. Written by Yaa…
Participatory theater is like being a door-to-door salesman. The pitch needs to start off so strong that the potential customer doesn't slam the door on your face. If the pitch isn't good th…
A boy is having an existential crisis. A girl is having an IKEA crisis. But who's there to help? That's the premise of Help me out here, produced by No Dominion Theatre Co. Written, directed…
photo by BogdanWhen you reach your 81st year, you're bound to have a plethora of stories to share. Just ask D'yan Forest. In her solo cabaret, Forest takes the audience on a tour of her life…
The weather changes from frigid to mild in just a day so it must be February. And another Rule of 7x7 is coming to The Tank! So to get you ready for Thursday's show at 7:00pm and 9:30pm, we …
Meet Tom and Eliza. Eliza has an affinity for burning books and having her back touched. Tom has an affinity for living in the bathtub and being scared of his kids. Let's watch the evolution…
Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac is kind of the world's most beloved romances. A poetic man with a nose like no other falls for a young woman who happens to be falling for a soldier. With…
In Rachel Kerry's multimedia drama Seven Fragments, the relationship of two young girls is explored as their bond grows from new friends into something a little bit more. Featuring theater, …
College is a place where you often find yourself. The things you do and the people you surround yourself may define the person you ultimately become. Inspired by her own experiences, Una Aya…
photo by Kat MorenoFlorida has always been the butt of many jokes mostly because the stories of the denizens can be just so crazy and weird! In Mark Levy's All is Fine in Sunny Florida, an E…
Imagine an alternate universe where some of the world's greatest literary voices are somehow now involved in the paranormal. This universe comes to life in Emily Dickinson: Paranormal Invest…
In a world of beauty, fashion, and image, comes a story of a young girl who breaks free from her insecurities and finds herself as an amateur beauty queen and model. Written and performed by…
Cottage B at the Sprucehaven Lodge is a place that is filled with skeletons. Skeletons from a woman's past and present. In Sprucehaven B, the twisted drama written by Mark Cornell, we begin …
Imagine a world where disease has destroyed a population and has forced regulation on human interaction and intimacy. And imagine that humans are forced to work as matrons for sex robots who…
Take a beloved classic sitcom and a cop show franchise and what do you get? CSI: Mayberry. Written and directed by Genny Yosco, the characters of "The Andy Griffith Show" are transported int…
Storytelling can be simple. All you need is a place to share it. And maybe a little chalk. In Alex Curtis' Chalk, Curtis creates a world of his own on the walls of the Kraine Theater where h…
America is a scary place and Dandy Darkly is here to spook you silly. The acclaimed story yeller, yes that's right a story yeller, brings tales of horror to Under St. Marks in Dandy Darkly's…
Who says you need words to tell a story? In Mike Spara's Conversations with Body Language, Spara offers an evening of solo wordless sketch comedy that pays homage to classic physical comedy …
Life is a job in itself. Wake up, work, eat, sleep, and do it all over again. To some, that's all life consists of. No moments of excitement. Just finding ways to make ends meet. In Caryl Ch…
