While I agree it would have been encouraging to see some of the smaller theater companies (i.e., Upstream Theater, Muddy Waters Theater) walk away with some hardware, one has to take a moment and realize how wonderful it is just to be nominated and recognized for their efforts.

The dirty little secret is you gotta be weird to get on Adult Swim: you gotta come across as a weirdo. So we came out with this idea of, "Let's come out with the weirdest show we could" as a joke, and it kind of caught on and we kind of had to stick with that formula.

Following his impressive turn in St. Nicholas a couple years back, Hanrahan again takes the stage solo in Cul-de-Sac, a fully absorbing intermissionless 90-minute monologue which finds him embodying a neighborhood worth of characters.

The one-and-one-half-hour production seemed to fly by as Shanley's story unfolded at a quick pace. His tender moments were genuine without being overly sappy and the dialogue was crisp and engaging.