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Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

September 13, 2026

Don’t believe all you hear: Damien Warren-Smith appearing as his alter ego Garry Starr in Classic Penguins is entirely in the nude. However, all the ads say he covers all 1,000+ Penguin paperbacks, when in fact he uses about 50. This inimitable Australian comic is one of the funniest men on the planet and makes this hilarious and at times gross show a madcap and fast review of literature. You do not need to have read the books to enjoy the jokes as in most cases the titles tell it all. When he first appears in a leather armchair, Garry is dressed in an Elizabethan ruff, a top hat, a black tail coat, orange flippers and nothing else, but he quickly loses the coat and hat. The nudity eventually becomes commonplace like the undressed bathers on the beach – you get used it - but he reminds us periodically of his nudity by his antics. The point of the show is to save great literature. Some books get more time than others. There is a great deal of audience participation, always voluntary, and mainly from the first row. The orange and white Penguin paperbacks are revealed by a camera hookup (on top of a small bookcase) which projects each title on to a huge screen above his head. Beginning with Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, he works his way through to R.C. Sherriff’s Journey’s End in 65 minutes. [more]

The Unknown

March 30, 2026

Hayes proves wholly persuasive, gliding among a gallery of supporting figures (Hayes delineates 11 distinct characters with astonishing lucidity, his transitions so fluid they seem almost instinctive, even as the narrative around them grows increasingly clouded and labyrinthine.) with a lightness that never calls attention to its own virtuosity. As Elliott, he is coolly, almost disquietingly composed, revealing only the briefest fissures beneath a meticulously maintained façade—a man who seems able to exist only in the telling of stories, never quite as himself. [more]

Angry Alan

July 11, 2025

John Krasinski, best known for his role as the charming and amiable Jim Halpert on NBC’s sitcom The Office, is inspired casting for Penelope Skinner’s Angry Alan, a perfect showcase for his talents now the opening show at Studio Seaview, the renovated Tony Kiser Theater. In Skinner’s monologue co-created with actor Donald Sage Mackay who first played the part at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Krasinski is Roger, a three-years divorced man, who also lost his executive position job at AT&T and now works as the dairy manager at his local Kroger, a job he hates. Surfing the net, he finds a website called “Angry Alan” which seems to explain his midlife crisis: it is all the result of the “Gynocracy: a female dominated political regime which took over decades ago.” Roger who addresses us directly is still smarting from the fact that his live-in girlfriend Courtney has recently discovered feminism from a community college life class she is attending. [more]