Carmelita Tropicana, aka Alina Troyano, has made me laugh, and think, for years. When I first heard the name back in the nineties I was imagining an over-the-top Carmen Miranda type character from an old Hollywood musical, complete with...
Yesterday, we received the sad news that legendary performance art pioneer and playwright Tom Murrin has died of cancer. Murrin was a downtown original, heavily involved in the avant-garde theater movement, beginning at LaMaMa in the 1960s. He performed...
