posts from halloween

Teller and Todd Robbins Play Dead at The Players Theatre, New York City

by November 1st, 2010 - Culture » Performance »

“Better than Mary Poppins, but not as creepy.” That’s how Todd Robbins asks audience members to describe the spectacle they had just witnessed at the end of Play Dead, the new stage fright-fest written and directed by the smaller, quieter half of Penn & Teller. Indeed, although there is an ethereal elegance that runs throughout […]

The 10 Doctors – A Doctor Who Halloween

by October 17th, 2008 - Culture » Film and TV » Creative » Writing »

Each year, a rather fantastic parade of wonderfully imagined costumes and impossibly constructed floats and contraptions helps celebrate Halloween in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Or so I am told. I can’t remember actually ever going. Regardless, this year there is a savage plan. I had thought of other personas to go as in the […]

The Sporadical skeptically promotes the following:
SKEPTIC Reason Penn and Teller Frank Zappa