"Bad Kid" in the San Antonio Current

 
The San Antonio Current has run an article in their new issue about my storytelling and solo show, "Bad Kid." It's a sassy piece entitled "David Crabb dishes queer Saytown goth to the rest of the world." Get a load of that gay-with-a-capital-G bidness!

Many thanks to journalist Gregg Barrios, who let me blather on for about half an hour about how deeply I love The Smiths when all he probably wanted to know was what my show was about. Talking to him about the good old days in SA was great- getting high at The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Northwest Theatre, making out on the dirty sofas suspended from the ceiling at Changez, breaking into the grounds of the McNay Museum on acid. What an unsullied youth! And what a nice article.


So hang on San Antonio. I might be a few steps closer to performing my solo show "Bad Kid" in the actual place it happened. It would certainly be a rush to talk about drag queens fist-fighting at the Alamo in a theatre NEAR the Alamo! 

"Shhhh... you can almost hear them voguing."

READ THE ARTICLE HERE

My advanced storytelling class at The Story Studio

I'm so excited to be teaching an advanced class at The Story Studio.

This class will meet on Mondays and Thursdays 7-10pm starting on Monday July 9th, with seven sessions followed by a class show for friends and family during the eighth and final session on Thursday, August 2nd. Class sessions will meet at CAP 21, 18 West 18th Street, 5th Floor, room 507, NYC. The class show will take place at 3 of Cups downstairs lounge at 83 1st Avenue, NYC.

The Story Studio’s 4-week storytelling workshop provides students who have some previous storytelling experience with an encouraging, constructive environment in which to develop new pieces for the stage and receive feedback from their instructor and peers. Exercises in class focus on complex story structuring, mining your life for content, developing the character of “you,” using your voice and body to inhabit characters, and developing concise and meaningful endings. Each student will leave this class with at least 3 fully-developed stories.

This class is open to students with some storytelling experience. Sign up with a friend, and once you’ve both registered, email jc@thestorystudio.org with your friend’s name and receive a 15% rebate on the cost of the course.

SIGN UP HERE

My new class at Story Studio

*June 2-Day Storytelling with Characters Workshop at The Story Studio.

Bring the people in your stories to life! In addition to focusing on storytelling basics, this class will also guide students through exercises designed to help them vividly portray the characters in their stories. You’ll learn to fully utilize the power of your body & voice to create cinematic scenes & vividly portray the characters in their stories.

Day 1: Saturday June 2, 10am-2pm
Day 2: Sunday June 3, 12-2pm

Day 1 consists of exercises that will help you bring characters in your stories to life. Day 2 is when students will perform their stories in class and receive in-depth feedback from their instructor and classmates.

Sign up HERE.

Ask Me: Porno

Ask Me returns Wednesday April 4th for an amazing show with a great line-up! Join us at 8pm at Axis Theatre in the West Village for the dirtiest, funniest stories youve heard in a while. The line-up includes:

DAVID BALUTANSKI, David has performed stand-up in 41 states & recently on the Martha Stewart Show while making Manhattan clam chowder with Martha.

JEFFERSON, Host of Bare! Stories of Sex, Desire and Romance, and sex blogger, onelifetaketwo.com.

ADAM NEWMAN, One of Comedy Central's Comics to Watch! Hear Adam on his critically acclaimed debut stand-up CD, Not For Horses.

BOB POWERS, Bob Powers is a staff writer for someecards.com, author of "Happy Cruelty Day" and producer of Steamboat. Read his stuff at girlsarepretty.com.

THE REFORMED WHORES, Marie Cecile Anderson and Katy Frame have been lassoing hearts throughout NYC at UCB, The PIT, and Carolines on Broadway. www.reformedwhores.com

DANA ROSSI, Writer, storyteller and host of Soundtrack Series, recently featured in the New York Times and included in the book, Madonna and Me.

See you there!

Intro to Storytelling at The PIT

My new storytelling class at The PIT begins on April 30th. I couldn't be more excited to be co-teaching with the incredible Michelle Walson, an amazing writer, director, and storyteller.

*Intro to Storytelling at The P.I.T.
with David Crabb & Michelle Walson
Mondays 7pm-10pm
April 30-June 25

In this class, you’ll learn how to transform your real-life experiences into unforgettable performance pieces. The class will operate workshop style, with the majority of class time devoted to sharing and critiquing stories. Each student will develop at least 2 stories and perform one in a class show at The PIT for family and friends.

Michelle and I have worked together since 2010, teaching storytelling to beginners, seasoned writers and performers, and corporate professionals. Michelle approaches storytelling as a writer/director, with a focus on story structure, while I approach it as a writer/performer, with a focus on character work and physicality. Together, we’ve designed a multifaceted intro program for storytellers with different goals in mind.

SIGN UP HERE

Bad Kid is a New York Times Critics Pick!

New York Times has selected "Bad Kid" as one of their Critics Picks and ran the review in today's issue! Check out the article online with the picture above of me making the exact same face I made when I found out!

New York Times "Bad Kid" review

Hooray for Bad Kid!!!

The reviews are rolling in...

"Bad Kid" is getting some great reviews for it's 2012 run at Axis Theatre.

Flavorpill calls the show "highly entertaining."

"Behind the many laughs, a poignancy creeps in through Crabb's affectionate portrayals of the fellow outcasts who became his essential support system."
-Flavorpill

Curtain Up loved the show too and says you'll "jump in for the joyride."

"Crabb’s words simply pop in a magical way when he performs them. If reading his script is the equivalent of driving in a Camaro, then watching him perform it is like speeding down the Autobahn in a Lamborghini."
-Curtain Up

More to come y'all. Hang on to your Ankhs for a wild ride!!!