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RIP Madeleine Albright

RIP Madeleine Albright. I hope Ian W. Hill doesn’t mind my sharing this image from his Flickr page. It’s the Former and First Female U.S. Secretary of State at my old haunt The Brick Theater in Williamsburg Brooklyn, during Edward Einhorn’s Havel Festival in 2006. My play was on the bill afterwards, so I briefly got to rub elbows with the great stateswoman as well as President Havel! Of course we hoped they’d stay and watch our play (after all, Havel wrote it and it was the American premiere) but no soap! Anyway, as you know, she was a lady with a special stake in peace and security in Eastern Europe. I’m sure she watched the goings on in Ukraine with maximum misery. Now, more than usually, she leaves us for a better place.

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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.