She’s performed on Broadway, NPR’s “Tiny Desk” concert series and the big screen. (You might recognize her from the 2007 romantic drama “P.S. I Love You.”) She’s drawn acclaim for her musical performance in a revival of “The Threepenny Opera,” as well as in the off-Broadway hit “Old Hats.” McKay’s seventh studio album, “Sister Orchid,” will be released May 18. See her perform before that at Arden Gild Hall on Friday, April 20 (tickets available here).
Music to be played at the bar at the end of the world.
An album is more immediate and it’s more personal. It’s better.
The same time, only when you’ve written a play or musical, you’ve only begun. Then the decades pass, trying to see it to fruition. Once you’ve finished the argument with yourself, the argument with other people has only just begun.
Driving. Sound check. Show. Crappy TV. Driving. Sound Check. Show.
This is a solo tour, so it’s probably a car and a dog.
There’s never an excess of time. It’s lovely to have a day off.
I have been to Delaware. Love Delaware—so pastoral. A cousin in the family was a cook for the du Ponts in Wilmington.
My favorite cities would be Minneapolis at the Dakota, Feinstein’s in San Francisco and anywhere in Rio de Janeiro.
Always. Music is not that important, really. If you want a better world for the most harmed and exploited among us—which are the animals and the people who live in misery around the world—you need a different system where people can live with dignity. We can have universal basic income, single-parent healthcare, universal childcare, a living wage […T]hese things would go so far to creating a more equal society.
Potato chips!