Powerhouse doesn’t even begin to describe playwright and theater artist Adrienne Dawes. As the one-woman show behind Heckle Her, a burgeoning production company based in Austin, TX, Dawes is putting writers and performers of color center stage. Over the past two years, she has been at the helm of

I'm a huge Christopher Guest fan. Excuse me — Baron Christopher Guest. The writer-director of Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, This is Spinal Tap, and others, has a way with turning real-life situations into mockumentary gold. Which is why, when his newest offering, Mascots, debuted ...Continue

This past April, WNYC studios premiered 2 Dope Queens, a comedy podcast starring Phoebe Robinson, a writer/comedian/actress, and Jessica Williams, an actress/The Daily Show correspondent. The two friends had been running 2 Dope Queens as a successful regular stand-up show at Brooklyn's Union Hall

It’s an exciting adventure, checking your mail in college. Usually, it was just my way to procrastinate — waste some time so I don’t have to study for a class or write a paper. It was also the perfect way to walk through my dorm and run into a friend I could persuade to get late-night food

Since I started working from home, I have perfected the art of procrastination, and I have YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook to thank for that. But unlike those latter social media time suckers, YouTube at least has the ability to teach me something, or at least make me laugh. Below you will find