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Downtown Epic: TAYLOR MAC'S The Lily's Revenge

by Linda Leseman

Theater

In the modest black box space of The Bushwick Starr—occupied this Sunday morning by some twenty-odd performers and a three-piece band—a slide whistle signals the beginning of rehearsal.

LEMON ANDERSEN: From Public Enemy to Public Theater

by Kyle Thomas Smith

Theater

If Eminem thinks he’s got anything to bitch about, he should check out Lemon Andersen’s County of Kings. Compared to Lemon’s childhood in the projects at 24th St/4th Ave in Sunset Park, Marshall Mathers lived an almost storybook life on 8 Mile.

Scalping History: JULIA JARCHO with Richard Maxwell

by Richard Maxwell

Theater

Julia Jarcho’s play American Treasure, produced by 13P, will premiere at the Paradise Factory on November 21 and runs through Dec 12.

STEPHEN ADLY GUIRGIS with Michael Benjamin

by Michael Benjamin

Theater

Although he enjoys acting far more than writing, Stephen Adly Guirgis is best known for his work as a playwright with the LAByrinth Theatre Company in New York, of which he has been a company member since 1994. The Rail caught up with Guirgis and playwright/actor Melanie Angelina Maras during a rehearsal for Maras’ new play, Kiss Me on the Mouth, which Guirgis directs.

TWO FOR THE TIME: Reviving Susan Glaspell in New York

by Alexis Clements

Theater

Last fall, the writers Julia Jordan, Sarah Schulman and Anna Ziegler called a town hall meeting for female playwrights to discuss the fact that work written by women was being produced at rates no better than 100 years earlier.