Month: March 2004

  • Katherine Profeta

    Best known for her work with New York-based performance group Elevator Repair Service [ERS], choreographer Katherine Profeta has collaborated on shows such as Spine Check, Shut Up I Tell You (I Said Shut Up I Tell You), Cab Legs, Total Fictional Lie, and Highway To Tomorrow, as well as appeared onstage in the company’s most…

  • Dance for Rebels

    I got an email last week announcing DOPE: A Dance for Rebels a new dance piece about the SoCal skate/surf scene. The choreographer was Christine Suarez who I recognized from a performance party called Timsloft: Sancocho I did a few years ago at the Interart Annex in Hell’s Kitchen. I was a dancing Reza Abdoh-quoting…

  • Little Theatre at Tonic: new work by Len Jenkin, Deke Weaver and Kate Ryan

    Little Theatre, a monthly performance event at Tonic, the music venue on the Lower East Side, presents new work by multiple Obie Award-winning playwright, director and screenwriter Len Jenkin, solo theater artist Deke Weaver and playwright/director Kate Ryan on Monday, March 29th.

  • Still Hard Times in New York Towne

    Those of us who make art in NYC know how hard it is to get by. It’s always been tough in New York and most artists probably don’t expect to make a living in their chosen discipline. But if it’s felt even tougher since 9/11, that’s because it is tougher. And that’s not just anecdotal,…

  • OUT IN THE STREETS

    On March 20th, there are several street theater events going on at various locations and times around town, to co-ordinate with global anti-war protests. THAW will be meeting before the march and hosting anti-march activities and performances. THAW will be assembling at 11:30 AM at Bryant Park (behind the New York Public Library – just…

  • WYSIWYG-tastic

    The first WYSIWYG Talent Show went well last night with super duper readings from Mike Daisey (MikeDaisey.com), Blaise K. (Bazima.com), Michael Barrish (Oblivio.com), Chris Glazier (JimmyLegs.com), Lindsay Robertson (Lindsayism.com), and José Ralat Maldonado (LeftFieldLengua.blogspot.com) If you want to know more, Lindsay Robertson wrote briefly about the show here and Mike Daisey wrote briefly about it here, Jimmy…

  • Mark Russell Remembers Spalding Gray

    Be sure to read Mark Russell’s tribute to Spalding Gray in The Village Voice. It is very moving and insightful.

  • Kissing to Be CleverLeigh Bowery

    For those of you who missed the brief run of Charles Atlas’ captivating documentary The Legend of Leigh Bowery a few months back, you’re in luck. It’s coming back to the Two Boots Pioneer Theater for a return engagement, March 18-26. FYI: Leigh Bowery was one of the first nightlife figures to merge the world…

  • Oh, for a Muse of Fire

    Just a heads-up: everybody’s favorite burlesque-inspired conceptual choreographer/performance artist will be reinterpreting the birth of modernity when Julie Atlas Muz stages her ambitious interpretation of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Julie has hooked up with Chicago’s Butcher Shop Quartet who have transposed Stravinsky’s masterpiece into a four-part arrangement for a standard rock band of two guitars,…

  • Et Tu, Brute?

    Culturebot’s Worst.Sex.Ever. reading was such a success we’ve decided to make it a monthly event called The WYSIWYG Talent Show! The next one is Wednesday, March 17, at 7:30 p.m. at P.S. 122. The theme is “Almost the Ides of March: Stories of Betrayal in Love & Friendship” and will feature readings (and a performance…

  • Schoohouse Roxx Rocks the House

    The upstairs space at PS122 was filled to overflowing last Saturday night for the premiere of Schoolhouse Roxx, the new weekly late-night performance series exploring the intersection between music and performance art.

  • Wordsworth’s Sister

    Emerging playwright Young Jean Lee’s new work The Appeal (a historically inaccurate look at The Romantic Poets) opens April 9th at Soho Rep. The Appeal is a sardonic take on the life of artists and the cliques that they form. It also ponders, in an ironic way, the big questions about art, life, meaning, memory…