Category Archives: Matt on Stage

Appearing at La MaMa ETC in “It Matters Where You’re Buried”

I’m pleased to announce that I’m appear­ing (and play­ing a lit­tle piano!) in a read­ing of It Mat­ters Where You’re Buried, a new cabaret pray about chanteuse and night­club hostess-to-the-stars Brick Top, at La MaMa ETC in the east vil­lage, as a part of their read­ing series Shadow. Here are the details:

IT MATTERS WHERE YOURE […]

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KNB Review at NYTheatre.com

I am delighted that the NYTheatre.com review of KNB the Musi­cal was a rave, hap­pier still that the reviewer seems to have got­ten the writer/director’s aims exactly, and aston­ished that the fol­low­ing sen­tence appeared in it:
The cast is led by Glenn Seven Allen as Bat­teaux, who sings, dances, and acts with grand finesse.… Stand­outs include…Matthew Wrather, […]

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Fall Out at the, um, Binge Festival

Appar­ently, when it rains it pours. In addi­tion to rock­ing Christo­pher Carter Sanderson’s KNB: The Musi­cal (four more per­for­mances as of this writ­ing!), I’m going to be appear­ing in Fall Out in the Binge Fes­ti­val, a Work­ing Man’s Clothes joint.
Our play, Fall Out is a 10 minute comic bro­mance about the apoc­a­lypse. I’ve been rehearsing […]

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KNB: The Musical

I’m so excited to announce my first NYC show, an new work called KNB: The Musi­cal, writ­ten, com­posed, and directed fel­low Yalie Christo­pher Carter Sander­son. I’m in the cho­rus (another first!), and it’s been a great way to start off work­ing in a new city and meet incred­i­ble, tal­ented new peo­ple.
If you’re in the area, […]

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Matt on Film: The Raft

I spent the week­end before last in Fall River, MA, home of sev­eral Korean War vin­tage U.S. Navy ships, includ­ing the destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. I was there to shoot a flashback/dream sequence for The Raft, an inde­pen­dent short film directed by Robert Jones.
The movie stars Ed Asner (!) as a grand­fa­ther who […]

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Matt On Stage: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Happy Hol­i­days to one and all! You know how I like to cel­e­brate? Tap Danc­ing!
That’s right—you can see me in the Cor­ner­stone Pro­duc­tions Hol­i­day show, The Most Won­der­ful Time of the Year, a song-and-dance spec­tac­u­lar which, for me, rep­re­sents sev­eral firsts:

First time imper­son­at­ing Elvis in front of a pay­ing audi­ence
First time lift­ing a scantily-clad vamp […]

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Matt on Stage: The Funny Stages

As ever, I’ll be appear­ing in New Haven The­ater Com­pany’s The Funny Stages, CT’s only night of improv com­edy and music, this month on Wednes­day, Novem­ber 14, at 8pm, in the back room of  New Haven’s BAR (254 Crown Street). Tick­ets are $5, and you can bring in BAR’s deli­cious pizza and house brews.
We’re appear­ing this […]

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Matt On Stage: 365/365 Concludes

I’m going to be appear­ing at Long Wharf The­atre this Mon­day, Novem­ber 5, in the thrilling con­clu­sion of the New Eng­land Region’s year of 365 Days/365 Plays, by Suzan-Lori Parks.
Work­ing with New Haven The­ater Com­pany, I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in this project since Novem­ber, 2006—the New Haven Advo­cate called our Black Friday […]

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Matt On Stage: More 365/365

I’m once again involved in Suzan-Lori Parks’s 365 Days / 365 Plays, this time per­form­ing Week 8 in Park­ing Meter spaces all around New Haven. For more infor­ma­tion, see this post on the New Haven The­ater Com­pany site.

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Matt On Stage (sort of): 365 Days / 365 Plays

I’m going to be per­form­ing with New Haven The­ater Com­pany, our local, grass­roots, butt-kicking, rev­o­lu­tion­ary the­ater con­cern, at 900 Chapel Street on BLACK FRIDAY and SATURDAY, Novem­ber 24 and 25, between Noon and 8pm both days.
We’re doing a con­tin­u­ous marathon of per­for­mances from the 365 Days / 365 Plays cycle by Suzan-Lori Parks. Visit the National […]

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