Mark Maynard | experimental theater

Season five of The Walking Dead needs to be acted out on stage, in Ypsilanti

By Mark | August 15, 2015

This is not a joke. I really want one of our local theater companies to act out season five of The Walking Dead for me. I don’t currently have the funds to commission such a production, but I would happily contribute a case of beer to anyone who could pull of a credible interpretation. [warning: […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Ypsilanti | Also tagged community theater, dinner theater, Mark's big ideas, The Walking Dead, theater | 9 Comments

Introducing Ypsi’s newest theater company… the Neighborhood Theatre Group

By Mark | May 31, 2015

It was just recently brought to my attention that we’ve now got a new theater company in town. They’re called the Neighborhood Theatre Group, and they’ve got a free show coming up June 5, on North Washigton Street, in this building that will eventually house Ypsi’s coworking facility, The Back Office Studio. So, if you’re […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Aaron Dean, Actor’s Equity, Annoyance, Back Office Studio, Barprov, Beaver’s Long Strange Trip, Chicago, Coed Prison Sluts, Cornservatory, devised musical, Dreamland Theater, Eastern Michigan University, First Fridays, gobbing, improv comedy, iO Chicago, Kristin Anne Danko, Leave It to Beaver, Mix Studio Theater, Neighborhood Theatre Group, pH Comedy Theatre, punk rock, Riverside Arts Center, storefront theater, Storefront Theatre Musical, theater | 3 Comments

The Untold History of Zines…. Gregory Hischak on Farm Pulp

By Mark | January 2, 2014

In an attempt to better document the American underground press, or at least the sharp tiny sliver of it that I find most interesting, I’ve given myself the task of reaching out to all of those former and current zine publishers that I know, and asking them about their motivations and experiences. Today’s interview is […]

Posted in Crimewave USA, Special Projects | Also tagged 1990, Agatha Cristie, Atomic Books, aviation, Bertolt Brecht, Big Geology Cabaret, Big Squirrel Lick National Park, Birthplace of Aviation, Cape Cod, Cape Cod Writers Center, Cincinnati, collaboration, Cotuit Center for the Arts, Dada, David Mamet, Dayton, Edward Gorey, Edward Lear, Elliot Bay Books, Etch-A-Sketch, Eugene Baskerville, Factsheet Five, fake tourist attractions, famous people who published zines, Farm Hussy, Farm Pulp, fluxus, folding paper, fonts, found objects, Gang of Four, Golden Girls, graphic design, Greg Hischak, Gregory Hischak, Humana Festival, insecurity, James Thurber, John Cage, Left Bank Books, Lewis Carroll, Mad magazine, Max Ernst, Michael J. Rosen, Mirth of a Nation, National Geographic, Ohio, Petticoat Junction, playwrights, Portland Stage Company, Powell's, publishing, pulp, punk, Reading Frenzy, red dresses, Rene Magritte, Samuel Beckett, Seattle, Seattle Fringe Festival, See Hear, sexless, sibling rivalry, slam poets, small press, stamps, surrealism, The New Yorker, The Untold History of Zines, theater, This American Life, Thomas S. Hischak, toasters, underground press, Woody Allen, wooing girls, Wright Brothers, Xena, Yarmouth, Yoko Ono, young thugs, zines | 18 Comments

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Season five of The Walking Dead needs to be acted out on stage, in Ypsilanti

Introducing Ypsi’s newest theater company… the Neighborhood Theatre Group

The Untold History of Zines…. Gregory Hischak on Farm Pulp

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