Why David Cale's New Musical Memoir Is His Most Personal Work Yet - The Obie-winning solo artist digs into his traumatic past for 'We're Only Alive fo
The Obie-winning solo artist digs into his traumatic past for We're Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time---Ever since his auspicious 1986 New York debut The Redthroats, about an unhappy gay kid growing up in a working-class English town, writer-performer David Cale has mined his life for his solo shows. But only a few close friends knew his full shocking backstory, which he reveals in his most personal work to date,…