In 1997, Jay Kalagayan and some fellow recent Xavier University graduates – along with other theater enthusiasts – hatched an idea. Let’s create a roving, mobile, pop-up theater that would perform skits, monologues and poetry in unexpected spots, they said.
They called themselves the Know Theatre Tribe, and the first effort was a short skit at a bookstore, where they hauled the costumes and a backdrop in a trunk. The seat-of-the-pants production cost about $75 to produce. For their effort,…
