Monthly Archives: March 2005

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Artists on the Road

On Wednesday April 6 DTW will be hosting an artist services seminar called Artists on the Road: Building Networks Beyond New York City from 5:30-7:30pm. From the email: There are abundant opportunities outside of New York City to research, perform and connect creatively with unfamiliar

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Live Onstage – the P.S. 122 Benefit

Just to let everyone know to save the date. May 2nd is the Performance Space 122 Spring Gala Benefit. This year it’s called Live Onstage! and its going to be at Webster Hall and its going to be fabulous!! LIVE ONSTAGE! will be hosted by

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they will use the highways

Just a reminder that Adrienne Truscott’s fantastic new performance they will use the highways opens Thursday at 8 p.m. at Performance Space 122. To learn a little more aobut the piece and the artist, you can read our mini-interview with Adrienne. Anybody who has seen

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Adrienne Truscott

Adrienne Truscott has been performing, creating work and teaching in NYC for the last ten years. Most recently, her neo-vaudevillian collaboration with Tanya Gagne, The Wau Wau sisters, was seen off-Broadway at the Ars Nova Theater and at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. Adrienne was

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Talking to James Urbaniak

Culturebot contributor Katherine Steinberg is a writer based in New York. I think Charles Isherwood best describes Thom Pain as “stand-up existentialism.” He goes on to say that, “Mr. Eno and his performer, the actor James Urbaniak, hereby reinvent that seemingly moribund theatrical genre, the

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What’s the Story: Is It Dance or Theater?

In this article on Matthew Bourne’s “Play Without Words” John Rockwell says: But my main interest is why Mr. Bourne, like several other European choreographers, seems so eager to market his dance as theater. Good question. And it’s not just the Europeans or dancers. Many

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LTTR

Flavorpill sez: Identity politics are anything but stable — “queer” and “gender” have morphed from nouns to verbs, pronouns are marginalizing, and the acronyms just keep getting longer. Luckily for the folks behind queer feminist journal LTTR, renewal is what gender is all about. They’ve

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The City That Never Shuts Up

Tonight is the monthly installment of The WYSIWYG Talent Show. The theme is “The City That Never Shuts Up: New York Stories”. Featuring reader/performers: Eurotrash (http://www.upsaid.com/eurotrash) Joe Jervis (joemygod.com) Maccers (maccers.blogspot.com) Dan Rhatigan (ultrasparky.org) Giulia Rozzi (giuliaiscuteandcheap.blogspot.com) Jeff S. (tinmanic.com) Tuesday, March 22, at 7:30

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Conversations with Anne

On Monday, March 28 at 7pm, Anne Bogart will conduct a dialogue with Elizabeth Streb as the next installment of the monthly guest lecture series, “Conversations with Anne”, sponsored by SITI Company and taking place in the SITI Company studio on 8th Avenue. “Conversations with

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first blog play

“Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog From Iraq” is not a very good play, but it’s worth your attention for two reasons. It’s the only political drama in New York written from the point of view of an Iraqi who lived through the American invasion, and, for

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Lizards and Leprechaun Piss, Oh My!

from Culturebot contributor Sarah Maxfield: What do you do when Mom’s corned beef hash is miles away and your local Irish Pub is suddenly charging a cover? Easy. You cozy up on a couch at Dixon Place and enjoy some tasty, refreshing Leprechaun Piss (that

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Kyle Jarrow

Kyle Jarrow (Writer/Composer) penned the Off-Broadway hits A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant (OBIE Award), Armless (FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award), and President Harding is a Rock Star. The New York Times described him as “New York’s hipster playwright.” Kyle’s work has been seen at