Month: May 2008

  • Conflux 2008

    I can’t remember if I posted about this but it looks really cool: http://confluxfestival.org/conflux2008/

  • Volunteers Wanted for Teatro Stagefest

    My friend Shoshana just sent this in: As TeatroStageFest is fast approaching (June 2-15) we are eager to recruit additional interns, volunteers, and assistants interested in working behind the scenes at an exciting theater festival that for the second year in a row will feature: eight great local and international productions (Colombia, Chile,  Argentina and…

  • Notes on a talk on Macbeth

    I was emailing with Gary Winter about the talk with GRZEGORZ JARZYNA on Monday at MESTC/CUNY, the artistic director of TR Warszawa that will be doing MACBETH at the Tobacco Warehouse, produced by St. Ann’s. (which, by the way, is going to be amazing)  I had to leave early so he sent me his notes.…

  • Balkan BBQ

    This looks good: Ansambl Mastika with the Black Sea Hotel at Rose Live Music for a Memorial Day Balkan BBQ. Who:  Ansambl Mastika and the Black Sea Hotel What:  A Memorial Day Balkan BBQ When: Saturday May 24th, 4 pm – 8 pm Where: Rose Live Music, 345 Grand at Havemeyer & Marcy, Williamsburg How…

  • Faulkner? I Hardly Knew’ Er!

    My pals at Immediate Medium are having a benefit. You should go. You shoud all, definitely go. These folks know how to have a good time and they make good work! BURN THE MOTHER DOWN Saturday, June 7, 2008 Light a fire in your belly with a preview performance, party and open bar to benefit…

  • LaMama Moves

    I’ve been meaning to post about this and totally spaced. Kudos to Nicky Paraiso and the gang at LaMama for putting together this fantastic dance festival, LaMama Moves! There’s a great line-up of events all month long (sorry I missed a week or so!) also particularly cool is the “Dancing for Micki” celebration Micki Wesson…

  • Holy Panel Discussions Batman!

    Just got this email from Mike Daisey: Hello All, As part of the reopening of HOW THEATER FAILED AMERICA at the Barrow Street Theatre we’re hosting a series of roundtable discussions after select performances on the state of theater in America. These feature luminaries like Robert Brustein, Rocco Landesman, Gregory Mosher, Oskar Eustis, James Bundy…

  • Party and Pan Pan at PS122

    For those of you who can’t make it to the PS122 Gala thursday night but still wanna party with the PS, you can join the late night party with FREE ADMISSION to The PS122 Gala After Party – everyone and their mother, brother, sister and Chihuahua is invited it is free to get in (but…

  • birth control lost and found

    weird stuff you find abandoned on the streets of new york, for instance, a case of seasonique sample packs:

  • Beware of A Holy Whore

    for you Rainer Werner Fassbinder junkies out there, here is a FILM by the man transcribed word for word (by the diligent Doris Mirescu) for a STAGE production which will be performed in a MOVIE THEATER on 23rd Street that has been SWIPED and made into a LIVE THEATER by FILM STUDENTS who, though they…

  • MY BARBARIAN SEEKS ARTS PROFESSIONALS FOR NEW PERFORMANCE

    My Barbarian is a Los Angeles-based performance collective founded in 2000 by Malik Gaines, Jade Gordon and Alexandro Segade.  The trio creates and performs in site-specific plays, musical concerts, theatrical situations, and video installations that explore contemporary political challenges by playing out allegorical narratives drawn from history and mythology. One week of rehearsal in the…

  • Finland! I LOVE Finland!

    *If you just…* www.ifyoujust.net ”If you just…” – collective new media / dance work which combines dance and internet in a new way. If You Just… project consists of three separate but connected parts: dance video about loneliness (directed by Hanna Lappalainen, music by Anja Mauranen); website ifyoujust.net forming around the original video and contribution…