Culturebot hasn’t seen The Foundry Theater’s production of The Roaring Girle yet, (we’re supposed to go in a week or so), but word has started to spread that it’s every bit as good as people thought it would be. Mike at epenthesis.org says: “What can you say about an Elizabethan cross-dressing proto-feminist who died of dropsy? Just that she was the coolest woman ever.” Read the rest of his comments here.There’s another write-up at The Jon Blog.
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Saturday, March 6th will mark the premier of Schoolhouse Roxx, PS122s new late-night performance series exploring the intersection of live music and performance art. Stephanie Dickson and Tom Siler have been exploring that intersection for over a decade in St. Paul, Minnesota and more recently here in New York, so it seems appropriate that their band, Tulip Sweet and her Trail of Tears, which now features Johnny OHalloran on drums, was chosen to headline the show on the 6th. In 2001, Tulip Sweet and her Trail of Tears were named the Twin City Pages Artists of the Year. That fall, they moved to Brooklyn, and have since been playing at CBGB, Pedros Bar, XPO, Buttermilk and other venues in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
For those of a certain political bent, Noam Chomsky is something of a hero. Or at least the idea of Noam Chomsky holds endless fascination. Anybody who was politically engaged (from the left) in the early 90′s saw the documentary Manufacturing Consent and subsequently could be seen toting one or another of Chomsky’s books or even The Chomsky Reader. In the ensuing years he has entered the pantheon of leftist iconography along with Ralph Nader, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara, The Dalai Lama and in some states out west, Leonard Peltier. It is possible that in the glare of the spotlight this soft-spoken, dauntingly intelligent and notably contrarian academician has become a victim of the same media manipulation he regularly decries. And this is the starting point, I think, for The Butane Group’s production 
This Sunday, February 29th, will be the world premiere of P.S. 122 co-founder’s Charles Dennis’ film Homecoming – a documentary about the past 20 years of dance at P.S. 122, and its influence on the world of downtown performance. Show’s at 5 pm. at P.S. 122 – 150 1st Ave. @ 9th St. Tickets are $5.
Roger Guenveur Smith is a writer, director and performer best known for his Obie Award-winning solo performance A Huey P. Newton Story, which was subsequently adapted for television by Spike Lee, where it won a John Foster Peabody Award. Smith will make his cinematic directorial debut this spring with Who Killed Bob Marley, produced on location in Jamaica by Steven Soderbergh. Last fall, Smith and Soderbergh collaborated on the innovative HBO series, K Street. Smiths new performance, Iceland, opens Thursday, February 26th,2004 at P.S. 122.
Fans of downtown theater have had ample opportunity to see the talents of Colleen Werthmann. From her work with 
Writer/director Dan Hurlin has been creating original puppet theater since 1980. His work has been presented at such spaces as New York’s P.S. 122, The Kitchen, and Dance Theater Workshop; Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center; the Duke University Institute for the Arts; and the Flynn Theater for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vermont. His latest show Hiroshima Maiden just completed a highly successful run at St. Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn. I recently met up with Dan for breakfast to talk about the project, his fascination with puppets and whats next.
