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I’m Guest Blogger on the New York Times Today!

Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

Go figure: Iron Mike gets a Broadway show and I get to guest-blog at the New York Times! Well, stranger things have happened – – and to me! At any rate, my piece is here, at http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/theater-talkback-boxers-on-broadway/

Also my Villager (etc) column is out today. Go here to get yer full skinny on the undergroundzero festival, HERE’s Summer Sublet Series, Dixon Place’s 21st annual HOT! festival (including Theatre Askew’s workshop production of my play The Fickle Mistress), Parallel Exit’s new show and more. It’s all at:  http://www.thevillager.com/?p=5586

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.

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    • Thanks, Maragret! and nice to hear from you! I remember you well, am in constant in touch w/ Cybele these days via facebook

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