What better way to celebrate Christmas day than to give you some Penn alumni Christmas related entertainment news? While Ray Evans (W’36, Mask and Wig) and his songwriting partner Jay Livingston (C’37) wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals, TV and films (including the Mr. Ed theme song), they were probably best known for writing […]
What happens when a Penn alum film producer works with a Penn alum writer to produce a horror film? Hopefully it gets made and hopefully it gets good reviews. This is exactly what has happened in both cases when Todd Shotz (C’96, Glee Club, Penn Players), VP of Rifkin Eberts collaborated with writer Dan Kay […]
Yeah, I bought that “Not Penn State” shirt at Steve and Barry’s my freshman year. I’ve thrown it out years ago, but maybe I should have kept it… So I was at the gym this morning and someone comes up to me and said, “I noticed you were wearing a Penn shirt at the gym […]
When I was back at Penn in the early to mid-90s Penn didn’t have cable in the quad, a cafeteria in Rosengarten library …or a thriving writer’s community. All of that has now changed… but most notably, the writer’s community part. Over the years. through emails and his visits to Los Angeles, I have been […]
photo by Carol RoseggToday, I went with the Penn Club of Los Angeles to witness puppets dealing with life after college… addressing issues like sex, drinking, and surfing the web for porn. It was great. It reminded me a bit of Mask and Wig (minus the puppets). What is the show about?From the avenueq.com website:“AVENUE […]
Carlos Andrés Gómez (C’04), award-winning NYC poet and actor, has a voice. …And it’s channeled through his passion for the spoken word. After checking out his videos, the best word to describe this guy is captivating! At Penn, Carlos was the founder of The Excelano Project one of the nation’s premier spoken word/performance poetry collectives. […]