Hindsight is 20/20 and blah blah. It's easy for us to go negative on the much-besmirched character of Mike Daisey, the monologist who took on Apple and has come away just sounding butt-hurt that anyone ever tried to make him into a journalist. "It's theater!" is his basic excuse, and more recently, "My wife made me do it!" But we saw Daisey perform one of his other monologues, The Last Cargo Cult, at Berkeley Rep last year, and not only did it kind of annoy us, it left us feeling like we'd just been preached at for two hours by a sweating man sitting at a table whose favorite punctuation mark was the F-word. more ›

Avoiding the masses storming the theaters for Transformers? Here are a few things to keep you busy until the 4th... more ›

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. more ›

Unless you see all four of Mike Daisey's "Great Men of Genius" monologues (and see them IN ORDER), you might miss the point. GMOG is NOT in fact one man acting as four different "geniuses" -- Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Nicola Tesla, and L. Ron Hubbard -- in four 75-minute monologues. Rather, this is one five-hour monologue, broken up into four segments, wherein the true genius of the piece, Mike Daisey, interweaves vignettes from his life with the excerpted life stories of those famous men. And did we say he's funny? more ›