I am supposed to be attending the John Jesurun’s PHILOKTETES benefit thing at the Kitchen. I am bummed because I would have liked Julie Atlas Muz to molest me and call me Vanilla Pudding and make me feel like a real Theater Fag. But I
“Anyone who wants to see what British physical theater at its finest is all about need look no further than Performance Space 122, where a piece called “Sinner” by a group called Stan Won’t Dance has taken over the upstairs space through Sunday. I saw
So there’s a lot of great peformance and performance-related stuff going on around town – its going to be a busy week and weekend, so here are a just a few of the things, by date. More details are listed after the jump. Wednesday, March
Two big shows opening this week at P.S. 122! Wednesday is Sinner from London’s Stan Won’t Dance and Thursday is junta high from Clay McLeod Chapman’s Pumpkin Pie Show, featuring The Hungry March Band. Sinner is a self-destructive “solo for two men” featuring sensational former
I thought I would open this series with a little email feud between two University Theater Journalists . . . Dum di Dums stint as academic Theater Fag Hag is all too familiar. But perhaps some Freshman somewhere will read this and switch her major
So most of you probably saw the profile of kate valk in the ny times on sunday. well, then you should probably follow that up with a visit to St. Ann’s to see The Emperor Jones. We saw it last night and let me tell
Its time for me to break with the Windy City. While Betty is warming up for more adventures to places unknown I am going to fulfill my chemical deficiencies. Since being here I have become addicted to American Spirits in the pretty yellow box. Thank
Last night Culturebot got to attend a preview performance of Lisa Kron’s Well on Broadway. For all the usual reasons (too many shows, not enough time) we didn’t get to see this show at The Public, so we can’t compare the new version to that
Jason Grote wrote a letter/petition to Jim Nicola about the Rachel Corrie controvery at NYTW. It is available here: http://www.petitiononline.com/nytw/petition.html There is also a copy posted with some background information at theater2k: http://www.theater2k.com.
David Linton’s New York 5.0, A 50-year celebration and benefit @ Tonic (107 Norfolk St. between Rivington & Delancey, NYC) Monday, March 20, 2005 8 pm till late In celebration of the fiftieth birthday of David Linton, downtown music pioneer, Tonic has donated its space
The next CATCH is Saturday, April 1st at Galapagos. The press release doesn’t say what time, but I think it is at 8 p.m. $10. Good line-up, check it out: – Melissa Briggs – Alec Duffy & Co. – Justin Jones – Ken Nintzel –
On Monday, March 20 at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan, Brook Stowe will be moderating an evening of presentations and discussions celebrating the release of the New York Theater Review (Black Wave Press, 2005), an anthology of reviews, essays and new plays that aims