I will perform in NYC on June 26

Friends in New York! On Tuesday, June 26, I will be performing at Ars Nova. “Performing what?” you ask, in my imagination, “why, performing the act of inventing a religion with diagrams, theories and preposterous arcana,” I reply. “How is that possibly entertainment?” you hopefully don’t wonder. “If you’ve ever seen me introduce a play [...]

I will perform in LA on June 19

Friends in Los Angeles! On Tuesday, June 19, I will be performing at Atwater Crossing, with special musical guest and former office-mate Jeffrey D. I will attempt to lasso the cosmos for the 21st century agnostic using obscure scientific trivia, personal medical records, ontological diagrams, sociological arcana, whimsical apocrypha, the Oxford comma and jokes. Jeffrey will [...]

Happy Leap Year

In honor of leap year, and the smart young toga-clad IT guy in Caesar’s Rome who looked up long enough from playing Angry Aves on his iScroll to solve the whole Earth takes 365 days, 5 hours, 49 Minutes to go around the Sun dilemma…   Brendan Hughes on “Time.” – watch more funny videos

KMLZ – Killing My Lobster at Z Space in San Francisco

Having been invited to San Francisco by good friend Michael Hoch, now the Executive Director of Killing My Lobster, a brilliant sketch comedy concern founded by many of my brother’s friends from Brown University, I endeavored to condense a couple of my monologues from Low Tide last summer into tight five minute routines. I had [...]

Low Tide, Episode 5 – Time

Episode five is here!!!! Low Tide is the gonzo variety show hosted by Brendan Hughes at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater on Cape Cod. Each week, musicians, actors, directors and writers join Brendan on a quest to understand various angles on life itself, from science, to art, to the strangest of arcana. Episode five explores [...]

Low Tide, Episode 4 – Taste

Episode four is here!!!! Low Tide is the gonzo variety show hosted by Brendan Hughes at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater on Cape Cod. Each week, musicians, actors, directors and writers join Brendan on a quest to understand various angles on life itself, from science, to art, to the strangest of arcana. Episode four explores [...]

Low Tide, Episode 3 – Golden Mean

Episode three is here!!!! Low Tide is the gonzo variety show hosted by Brendan Hughes at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater on Cape Cod. Each week, musicians, actors, directors and writers join Brendan on a quest to understand various angles on life itself, from science, to art, to the strangest of arcana. Episode three explores [...]

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    In classical music, Pizzicato is the plucking of a muted string on a violin. The effect (in my opinion) is the indication of the note for your heart to play.

    This can also be achieved in directing. We do not go to the theater to admire an actor have an emotion. We go to have the emotion for ourselves.

    The Pizzicato Effect is theatre and film in their highest forms. This is what I'm after.

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