BORN READY EP 19 – The Smoking Gun in LA w/ Colin Mitchell of Bitter Lemons

Welcome to BORN READY’s Los Angeles episode! In this show the guys interview Colin Mitchell, editor-in-chief and founder of Bitter-Lemons.com, the website that is bringing the LA theater community together whether it likes it or not. And we check in with our LA Theater Correspondent Ellen La Scola (Ray’s Mom) and get her review of […]

BORN READY EP 17 – Rob and Ray are Presenting a TBA Award w/ Robert Sokol

Thanks for tuning it to what American Theater Magazine calls “The Bay Area’s bad boys of theater punditry,” BORN READY! In our latest episode we talk shop with Theatre Bay Area Awards Program Manager, Robert Sokol, the man tasked with the frequently thankless job of spearheading the TBA Awards. We get the basic gist of […]

BORN READY EP 16 – “Unbelievable!” w/ Rob Avila

UPDATE Asked Rob for a statement on the paper’s closing, and true to form, he sent in a thoughtful, well written, moving response. Check it out below. “I know you asked for my thoughts on the paper’s closing and specifically what it might say about journalism today or what it might mean for the theater […]

BORN READY EP 8 – Shakespeare Battle Royal w/ Steve Boyle

Welcome to the eighth episode of BORN READY, our Shakespeare Battle Royal featuring Shakespearean director and general expert Steve Boyle. Inspired by Ira Glass’ tweet that “Shakespeare sucks.” And the (inevitable) subsequent freakout that happened online, we get into how and why Shakespeare’s plays are so widely produced and some issues that go along with […]