Month: April 2007

  • Kiki and Herb Extend at Joe’s Pub

    Everyone’s favorite inebriated downtown duo have extended their residency at Joe’s Pub through the month of May. So, if you need your fix, best catch the twisted twosome before they hit the road to bring their demented sense of showmanship to the rest of the country. We received this impassioned plea from the boozy Kiki…

  • Spend Your Money on a New Trick

    From the Culturebot electronic mailbag comes this missive for New Tricks, a fundraiser to benefit Theatre Askew’s show i google myself. According to the press release, Jason Shafer (Trick, “Queer as Folk”) “has crafted a taut thriller where three men with the same name engage in a high-risk game of identity and desire, and online…

  • What We Saw

    Not much to say, really. Just a re-cap of the week, this was a relatively busy one. Wednesday we saw Okwui Okpokwasili’s haunting Pent Up and Thursday we saw Edith Freni’s Momma at P.S.122. Friday night we saw Eric Winick’s rearviewmirror at 59 e. 59th, Saturday afternoon we saw Lear DeBessonet’s Transfigures at The Women’s…

  • Short Mean Lady packs a punch

    I went to see Amanda Loulaki’s show at Danspace Project because she’s my friend, and I wanted to support her; you should go see it because it’s fantastic. Delirium, or that taste in my mouth is a striking, mature piece of dance exploring anxiety and fear performed with an earnestness that is never simpering –…

  • Collapsable Giraffe Benefit

    COLLAPSABLE GIRAFFE BEGGAR’S BENEFIT PARTY is tonight. We missed this week’s open rehearsals but hear it was great (Note to artists: invite us to stuff and we’ll write about it & your company. We’d rather see rehearsals and write a preview than see the show and a review. Also, we have no ethics and will…

  • Road To Nowhere: David Byrne’s Bike Has Been Stolen

    In an ironic twist of fate, musician/artist/verbose blogger David Byrne, who’s currently organizing the Alternative Transportation Music Festival, had his bicycle stolen outside the IFC Center last weekend. The cycling enthusiast, who’s often spotted pedaling around downtown, says “If anyone sees a bike with both a Che sticker and one for the MOST space telescope…

  • Who’s Going To Review The Reviewers?

    Charles Isherwood, the New York Times critic bloggers love to hate, will be taking part in a reading of Androcles and the Lion at the Player’s Club on April 23rd as part of the successful Project Shaw.  The conceit is that the Christians being fed to the lions will all be played by reviewers and columnists, including talking…

  • NYCTBlogging

    Over at Parabasis, blogging stalwart Isaac Butler clarifies some facts about his exclusive cabal, the NYCTB (New York City Theater Bloggers). Originally gathered to attend a performance of Roundabout’s Pig Farm, and hopefully illustrate the viability of the internets to the traditionally stodgy press and marketing folks at mainstream non-profits, this veritable Justice League of…

  • Schadenfreude.tv?

    If you’re currently toiling away in the often thankless arena of Off-Off Broadway, er, Indie Theater, and still flinch in horror at the memory of the drunken auteur who tried lure you to his casting couch, the time you had to step over rats in a basement dressing room, or the egomanical cast member who…

  • French Performance in Berlin

    I went to Berlin and saw two fantastic performances – both French. Globalism, anyone? My brief stay in the city of Brecht happened to coincide with the France en Scene Festival. Incidentally, it also coincided with roof repairs on old Bertolt’s house, so no tours, which is probably how Brecht would have preferred it anyway.…

  • This Week at P.S.122

    Yes, I know I said I wasn’t P.S.122’s in-house blog. But still, it is my home away from home and I want to keep you all up-to-date on what’s going on Chez Andy. This week Best of the Boroughs continues with new work from Okwui Okpokwasili and Edith Freni as the dance company Palissimo returns…

  • Dancing at the Gershwin

    For the past seven years Neke Carson and Michael Wiener have been bringing you an eclectic weekly performance series at The Gershwin Hotel. Occasionally the stage is graced by the ever-intriguing presence of Mr. Wiener himself, as is the case tomorrow, April 10th. From the email we received: D.C. based choreographer Melanie Lalande, who established…