Hello, wanderers of the web!

Last spring, Horse Trade Theater Group graciously invited Lively Productions to develop our project, Blogologues, through a six-month developmental series, in which every month we create an entirely new script, rehearse it, and perform it. We’re sad to leave Horse Trade’s theater, UNDER St. Marks, but fingers crossed we’ll be running this show for more than one night at a time very soon. Stay tuned, and we hope to see you tomorrow night!

Blogologues: Come Here Often?

Conceived by Allison Goldberg and Jen Jamula
Produced by Lively Productions in association with Horse Trade Theater Group
Under St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
Monday, January 30th
7:30 and 9:30 PM 
Smarttix.com or call 212-868-4444.

Tickets are $15 and include a beer!

Come early for a drink before the show! Doors open at 7:00 and 9:00.

This month, Blogologues is here to help you find your soul mate. Join us, and you will learn the do’s and don’ts of dating, witness the end of a few meaningful relationships, experience the blossoming of new ones (perhaps with strippers), and, of course…Zombies.

We think it’ll be fun. So, what we’re getting at is…will you go out with us?

Featuring a raffle brought to you by PplLikeMe!

• Directed by David Hilder
• Stage Manager: Courtney Ferrell
• Lighting Design: Jimmy Lawlor
• Graphic Design: Dave Thomas Brown

Cast: Andrea Biggs*, Matthew Cox, Danny Gardner*, Allison Goldberg*, Jen Jamula*

Blog posts from Colin Nissan and Charlotte Hamilton (McSweeney’s), Laurenne Sala (Humans Are Funny), Lily O (WTF Is Up With My Love Life), Jessica Schnall (Alone With Cats), JD (JD’s Man Stories), Chiara Atik (HowAboutWe) … Content from Twitter, Craigslist, Texts From Last Night, Damn You Autocorrect, When Parents Text, F My Life, Overheard In New York and Overheard in the Office!

This is our last show in our series at UNDER St. Marks!  Please join us!

Save the date for the next Blogologues: November 28th at 7:30 and 9:30 PM. Details coming soon!

For those who think that the Internet and theater can never co-exist, you need to get your asses down to New York City’s East Village and check out Blogologues, the hilarious monthly theater show where a troupe of actors reenacts posts from your favorite blogs.

Welcome to the Hot Seat, where we interview folks involved in Brooklyn real estate, architecture, development and the like. Introducing Daniel Friedman, an architect and designer. He was featured just last month on Apartment Therapy.

Click here for the full interview, and for more about his work, visit danielfriedmandesign.com. I’m just behind the scenes on this one, folks.

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In the last Blogologues, I performed this delightful little piece called Jesus doesn’t want me to shave my legs. And I hope there’s “Sex and the City” in hell.  Obviously, a deep, dramatic piece. The blogger came to see the show, and she wrote this lovely review. Jen and I are so pleased to find that the bloggers are enjoying what we’re doing with their pieces, rather than, say, being horrified.

I’ve included some nice quotes below, but please feel free to check out the full review here. Many thanks to Jess Schnall of the witty little bloggity-blog Alone…With Cats.

…My friends, my mom — of course she came — and I watched as the effervescent Alli performed one of my essays in a knee-slapper of a new show called “Blogologues,” which transforms blog fodder into monologues. I have yet to fully process how fucking cool this is — that a silly little rambling that I lazily launched into the interwebs expecting only a few folks to read came to life in front of an audience. For the first time as a blogger, instead of seeing LOLs, I heard actual laughs in response to my writing.

I had hoped that the actor playing me would be much prettier and thinner and more charming than I, and Alli didn’t disappoint.

If you live in New York City or on Earth, I highly recommend you check out this show, and I’m not just saying that to suck up to the producers because they picked my post and I hope they use more. I legitimately loved it and I’m sucking up.

I think we’ll be posting more blogger testimonials soon somewhere on our Lively Productions site. Get excited!

Conceived by Allison Goldberg and Jen Jamula
Produced by Lively Productions & Horse Trade Theater Group
Under St. Marks (94 St. Marks Place)
Monday, September 26th
7:00 and 9:00 PM
For information on the full series, please click here.

Join us for a drink in the theater before and after! Doors open at 6:30.

Tickets are $15 and include a beer! Hooray!

Visit smarttix.com or call 212-868-4444.

Director: Jen Jamula
Stage Manager: Jim Armstrong
Lighting Designer: Marie Yokoyama
Graphic Designer: Katie Willis

Production Assistant: Matt Cox

Featuring:

• Andrew Ash*, Collin Blackard, Amanda Dieli, Allison Goldberg* and Wendy Joy.
• Blog posts from The New Age Blog, Kyle Lovett (The Reformed Buddhist), Jessica Schnall (Alone With Cats), Hemant Mehta (Friendly Atheist), Christopher Blosser (Is Barack Obama the Messiah?), Matt “Matsby” Page (My Religious Blog), and Stephanie Snowe (Stephanie Snowe: The Blog!)
• An original musical number by Greg Edwards and Amanda Louise Miller
• Content from Twitter, Damn You Autocorrect, Texts From Last Night, Craigs List, Spiritual Singles, Overheard in New York and more…

*Actors perform courtesy of AEA.

Blogologues is a trademark of Lively Productions, Inc.

“Architect and interior designer Daniel Friedman has a knack for transforming a home. Whether outfitted a new apartment or just providing a renovation, Daniel’s design savvy is warm, crafty and attainable. Take a look at the amazing transformations in these Before and Afters .”

“For an affordable, lighthearted evening of comedy, check out ‘Blogologues’ at Under St. Marks in the East Village.”

Thus far, Blogologues has also been covered in Backstage and The New York Times’ Local East Village.