kate throws up and dies (and other theatre news)

King Lear is now up and running! And enjoyed a very successful (if not ironic) Fathers' Day performance, at which my parents were in attendance.

Post show conversation:
Mom: We loved it! Oh, it was so good! Now, tell us what we didn't like.

Kate does.

Mom: Oh, well, yeah, I can see that.

Despite the heat and some opening day jitters (Gloucester was renamed Burgundy, the King of France was renamed Kent, and my exit line got cut, so I had to just pick a point, pretend to puke and hightail it out of there) it was still a solid weekend of performances.

And the actor playing Lear told me that his wife said to him after the first show, "Oh, that second daughter [me] is just evil! She's so pretty and sweet looking but then she just stabs you in the back so badly! I'm thinking we should reconsider giving money to the kids..."

Further performances:June 24 & 25 in Riverside Park (108 & Riverside)July 8 & 9 in Prospect Park (near the tennis house at 9th Street)July 15 & 16 Empire Fulton Ferry (New Dock Street and Water Street)July 22 & 23 Central Park (at 69th Street and CPW)

some pics:
mom calls this one "Kate acts nice"

mom calls this one "kate throws up and dies"________________________________________________________
In other theatre news, check this out! It's the story of some appalling behavior in a theatre -- luckily nobody did this to us!________________________________________________________
And, last but not least, I'm famous. No, really I am. I made some cookies this weekend, and gave them to my friend who works at the Public Theatre (currently working on Macbeth at the Delacorte in Central Park) and he shared them with folks at the theatre. And Liev Schreiber ate one of my cookies. Which makes me instantaneously famous.

Doesn't it?