Month: October 2007

  • brothers size

    Things are hopping at The Public! Tons o’ great stuff playing now and coming up. Culturebot definitely recommends The Brothers Size, which is a co-production with The Foundry.  We saw it as a workshop a while back and then it was a big hit at Under The Radar last year.  The website describes it thusly:…

  • pig iron and cynthia hopkins

    This weekend at The Brick, Pig Iron and Cynthia Hopkins are collaborating on a presentation for The Public’s year-long presentation of  Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days Plays. Its November 2 @ 7PM and November 3 @ 7PM & 9:30PM. Don’t know much more about it. But it sounds cool and its free.

  • beethoven live

    tonight is opening night of choreographer Kristyna Lhotáková and director  Ladislav Soukup’s Beethoven Live at PS122. these czech artists create a unique documentary dance-theatre working with non-dancers, “real people,” as inspiration. in this show they’re working with four american performers in their twenties. culturebot saw their performance entitled featured when he was at the noorderzon…

  • drum of the waves of horikawa

    Our pals at Theater of the Two Headed Calf opened their new show Drums of the Waves of Horikawa at HERE tonight. We saw a bit of it back in January and we think its going to be great. It is also part of the Japan Society’s Turning Japanese celebration!

  • Attractive Package

    So I was surfing the help-wanted ads in the UK Guardian (huh?) and I found an advert for a post that came with an “attractive package”….Apparently the RSC is looking for a new commercial director.  Here’s what the ad says: The RSC is one of the country’s leading arts organisations and one of very few…

  • Food Theater Project

    Interesting timing! Running concurrently with the Globesity Festival is LightBox‘s Food Theater Project at 3LD (80 Greenwich Street just below Rector). All shows are at 7:30pm. From the email we received: The Food Theater Project includes both Milk-N-Honey, a new multimedia play about the politics and pleasures of eating, and the After Show Café, where…

  • the globesity festival

    Penny Arcade has organized The Globesity Festival, which opened last night and runs through October 28. It is at the Theater for the New City and it is FREE  for everyone.  There are performances, panels and more. PLUS all the artists are, apparently, required to go on a juice fast for the festival! Should be…

  • japan-tastic at PS122

    This thursday at PS122 you can see the opening Sennichimae Blue Sky Dance Club’s A Bowl of Summer. It is part of the Japan Society’s 100th anniversary celebration. They’re crazy butoh-rebels and it should be a lot of fun. Then on the 21st composer John Moran brings his new work, “What if Saori Had A…

  • for the relief of unbearable urges

    On Saturday night we went to see Maggie Smith’s Good Heif, directed by our pal Sarah Cameron Sunde and presented by New Georges at The Ohio. It is “a peculiar fable set in a hot, dry landscape” about a boy coming of age in a rough, primitive world. It is a quirky, darkly humorous show.Without…

  • call for comment

    This just in: “If you’ve ever performed or attended a performance by AUNTS or Chez Bushwick’s Ambush or Shtudio Series I’d love to hear descriptions of your experiences. Pictures (jpegs) that include the audience would be great too. I’m writing a paper about them that will be presented at a conference at NYU.” Thanks, Carrie…

  • Party with the Two Headed Calf

      this also just came in: FRIDAY OCTOBER 19th::::8pm to midnight is a benefit PARTY for the Theatre of a Two-headed Calf Hosted by Erin Courtney and Scott Adkins with special performances by: Becky Yamamoto Laura Stinger The Lisps and The Theatre of a Two-headed Calf videos by Jeanne Liotta! DJs Amber Valentine and Elizabeth…

  • Audition for Sens/Noémie Lafrance

    this just in: We are looking for additional male and female aerialist dancers with experience working with climbing harnesses to work on Noémie Lafrance’s next work “Rapture” a site-specific work staging the architecture of Frank Gehry and performed on the roofs of the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. –   …