Starting this blog, at long last! Went to see Bedlam Theatre's "Sense and Sensibility" at the Gym at Judson, having first seen it 2 years ago at the Sheen Center when Bedlam was just a fledgling group featuring a couple of actors I had had class with. I particularly wanted to see it last night (went with friends from Ken Schatz's acting class) because our pal Jack Haley was understudying and put in. Kate Hamill, the playwright (who plays Marianne) tells me that she shortened the play by 10 minutes since the first time I saw it. Some of us swore Rudy Giuliani was sitting across us in the front row (but Kate swears it was just a doppelganger, and she should know, as she interacted with him during the show). It remains one of the freshest, most fun, well-acted pieces around and is thrilling and inspiring to see it's success. Speaking of inspiring, watch for my next blog in which I interview fellow actor Anne Bates on her recent turn as Connie in Lucy Prebble's "The Effect", directed by David Cromer, which just closed about the Barrow (and which yields some great monologues!)