CURRENT SHOWS
	heaping portion 2 april 1, 7pm iO west 6366 hollywood blvd. another delicious dish of words/music/comedy and spirituality for Jews and the people who love them. for more info go to www.solowaynow.blogspot.com
	sit 'n spin SIT N' SPIN happens every other Thursday night at the Comedy Central Stage at the Hudson, in Los Angeles. It's people getting on stage telling artfully written, funny, dirty, sad, true stories about themselves, framed by live musicians playing interstitial music and songs to bookend the whole affair. It's really fun. Make reservations. It's free!!

PAST SHOWS
	heaping portion feb 3, 7 pm UCB theater 5919 franklin ave * los angeles 323-908-8702 a few jews having their way with the torah portion. expect words, music, manischevitz, and actual real live magical acts of god. or g-d. or whatever. with jill soloway, julie hermelin, gary shapiro, andrew goldenhersh, jessica chaffin, jamie denbo, jon kesselman and music by monique powell. For reservations log on to: www.ucbtheatre.com
	HOLLYWOOD HELL HOUSE HOLLYWOOD HELL HOUSE ran from August through October of 2004. My sometimes writing partner, Maggie Rowe, called famed Colorado minister Pastor Keenan, the man who created Hell Houses -- Christian conversion haunted houses -- and ordered the entire kit -- scripts and set design and marketing materials, so we could put on our very own Real Live Hell House. Amazing Becky Thyre was in it too, plus lots of other funny people. I got dressed up as the sky blue cloud of God's love, Shari Putney, and stood outside to welcome potential converts to the tour.
	NOT WITHOUT MY NIPPLES NOT WITHOUT MY NIPPLES is a pretty queer play a group of friends and I created through improvisation. It was about some bad made-for-TV actors holing up at a rural retreat while a producer pushed a girl to commit suicide (because she no longer had sensation in her nipples after breast reduction surgery -- hence the title!) so that the movie would have a good ending. Not much evidence remains of this world-changing event. Here's this review from Variety. It had really funny songs in it like "Somebody Came on Meredith's Bed," regarding jism found on the bedspread of Meredith Baxter-Birney, and "Makin' a Salad," which included the rousing, yet heartfelt lyric, "Balsamic vinegar is aged in oak!" I wish I had those songs for you to hear.
	MISS VAGINA PAGEANT MISS VAGINA PAGEANT was the second play I produced and directed with my sister Faith. It played at the Annoyance Theater in 1991, starring brilliant comediennes Susan Messing, Becky Thyre, Madeline Long, Kate Flannery, Melanie Hutsell and Beth Cahill. It was a parody of a beauty pageant and very funny. There were giant slides of everyone's vaginas projected on a screen behind the lovely contestants as they were giving their How To Change The World speeches. Lorne Michaels pulled up in a limo (with, for unknown reasons, Quincy Jones) and took Melanie and Beth to New York to be on Saturday Night Live. We did it again many years later in Los Angeles. Ben Stiller attended with then girlfriend Jeanne Tripplehorn. Ben went on to marry Christine Taylor, who was in...
	...THE REAL LIVE BRADY BUNCH along with a bunch of other people including Becky Thyre and Melanie Hutstell again, plus many other brilliant comedians from the Annoyance Theater. It started in 1990 in Chicago as just a silly thing to do, and ended up running for years in Chicago and then all over the world. To be fair, Christine Taylor came at the very end, just before the Brady Bunch Movie came out and stole her and with it, our Brady Bunch dreams. Oh well. Faith and I were robbed. At least Betty Thomas could have invited us to the set once.