Mike Daisey
Pushing Up Daisey: Mencken-Loving Critic’s Sputtering Sentimental Journey
Ursa Waz
Mike Daisey in his one-man show, How Theater Failed America, at the Barrow Street Theatre.
There’s a drama critic in every man (and woman, of course). Audiences can be pretty severe critics, and, in private, theater folk can be, too. An actor-writer by the name of Mike Daisey is a rarity, however: He goes onstage to criticize theater publicly.
And it pays off, apparently. Mr. Daisey’s How Theater Failed America has now moved from Joe’s Pub to the Barrow Street Theatre downtown, and judging by the enthusiastic response he received on a recent Saturday night, a lot of people are enjoying hearing him tell us how badly theater is doing. read more »
