TECH-YES! TECH-NO! INGENUITY 2006

Writers from the Dark Room - our monthly new works cabaret -- have put together an hour of short work on technology themes for the 2006 Ingenuity Cleveland Festival of Arts & Technology.

The selections were made last week; we tried them out at our last Dark Room performance evening (June 8) for audience feedback. We'll be having a performance on July 14 at 2 pm. The showcase will include a combination of short plays, monologues, poems, & songs. This time my contribution is going to be a song. Here's a flyer for the performance; come check it out.

Last year's Ingenuity was a blast. (check out the videos on the main site). I spent most of 3 of the 4 days hanging out and seeing events. In 2005 my main music man Michael Flohr put together a fantastic cabaret act of songs from my musicals with a quartet of great singers titled CHANGING THE WORLD: THE MUSICALS OF LINDA EISENSTEIN. The performance space was a converted alley between two downtown buildings, and it was great.

Mike & I had proposed a new short opera this year, were accepted, but because of a complicated confluence of circumstances (including being way overextended with BECOMING GEORGE), we had to cancel.

So I'm happy that thanks to the Dark Room, I'll be a small part of this year's Ingenuity after all.