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Tour Dates Announced
“Side Effects May Include” - the very funny, moving one-man show from former Seinfeld writer Marc Jaffe and renowned playwright Eric Coble. - and for the benefit of “Shaking with Laughter” in support of the Michael J. Fox Foundation 
"Side Effects May Include" is a story of sex, drugs and sex-inducing drugs. Phil is living a relatively happily married life - his only complaint? Wife Maggie’s waning sex drive. It provides fodder for his stand-up act until she is diagnosed with Parkinson’s and then life gets better. At least their sex life. Based on a funny, touching, true story, this one-man show explores how sometimes it’s not the disease that changes you, but the side effects...
"Side Effects May Include" is a hysterical roller-coaster ride through an escalating mountain of pills, fidelity, secrets, questions of manhood and womanhood, age, desire, more pills, on-stage and bedroom performance anxiety, still yet more pills, and ultimately, an exploration of whether our deepest personalities and desires are anything more than chemical reactions within our brains. |
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As some of you know, I have recently created my own production company entitled “MadKap Productions Inc”.
I have found throughout my experiences as the Managing Director of Stage Two Theatre Company and producing for many regional theatre companies that “producing” is generally one of the least favorite roles in any production. Not many creative types enjoy the prospect of raising money, preparing budgets, performing other accounting duties, obtaining insurance, marketing, hiring and firing, organizing the masses and ultimately, not being able to claim the spotlite… There is no direct applause available for a producer. The producer sits through auditions and rehearsals hoping like hell that she has made the right choices and that the production will be brilliant. No one really knows the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes and outside of the actual theatre to provide entertainment for the public audience. I don’t like to appear onstage. For those of you who know me well, you know I’m not a wallflower. I just don’t consider myself a creative type and take great pleasure in surrounding myself with people who I consider to be artistically gifted.
I have found throughout my experiences as the Managing Director of Stage Two Theatre Company and producing for many regional theatre companies that “producing” is generally one of the least favorite roles in any production. Not many creative types enjoy the prospect of raising money, preparing budgets, performing other accounting duties, obtaining insurance, marketing, hiring and firing, organizing the masses and ultimately, not being able to claim the spotlite… There is no direct applause available for a producer. The producer sits through auditions and rehearsals hoping like hell that she has made the right choices and that the production will be brilliant. No one really knows the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes and outside of the actual theatre to provide entertainment for the public audience. I don’t like to appear onstage. For those of you who know me well, you know I’m not a wallflower. I just don’t consider myself a creative type and take great pleasure in surrounding myself with people who I consider to be artistically gifted.
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 A producer is a rare, paradoxical genius; hard-headed, soft-hearted, cautious, reckless,
a hopeful innocent in fair weather, a stern pilot in stormy weather, a mathematician who prefers to ignore laws of mathematics and trust intuition, an idealist, a realist, a practical dreamer, a sophisticated gambler, a stage-struck child. That’s a producer. |
