One of the great things about living in NYC is that there are so many great writers who are also talented performers. It is, I think, a peculiarly New York thing – the literary vaudeville circuit, if you will. From the witty urbanity of the
The HOWL! Festival starts on Tuesday, August 17th with more events than you could possibly hope to see in one week. So, I’ll just pimp the ones that I’m involved in. For a full line-up of HOWL! Festivities, check out the schedule at their website.
Apparently the management and policy changes at the Knitting Factory have left some of the artists on their record label a little disgruntled. In this Letter to Knitting Factory/Instinct Recording Artists from other artists, they contend that: In the past year, Knitting Factory Records underwent
It was a quiet evening, and I was in the middle of performing a spirited concert of Cheap Trick covers (thanks to my new purchases at the flea market this morning) when I noticed that no less than four of my elderly neighbors across the
Some of you may not know that your faithful Culturebot editor was a blogger for many a year before he hung up the personal site and started making Culturebot. I had wanted to do an arts-oriented blog for a long time, but it took awhile.
Today at 5:30 PM one hundred people children, the elderly, experienced, amateur — will be dancing on the North Plaza at Lincoln Center. Elise Longs Spoke the Hub Dancing are bringing their work out of her Gowanus Canal studio to present Community of Creativity:
well, actually, the internet does. and then people make it into a spectacle. That’s a heck of an angle. And if you’re not in Edinburgh to check that out, you can check out the NY Times picks for FringeNYC. Now ten shows, that’s manageable.
One of my favorite events newsletters is Tom Tenney’s Toxic Pop. He always finds cool performance-y stuff to do in NYC. In this week’s edition, he has a listing for Arab Women Performance Night at the Alwan Center. Looks interesting, enlightening and challenging. Click through
(Everybody’s favorite Culturebot contributor Rachel Shukert is spending the next 2-3 months in Amsterdam. This is the first of a series of reports from Old Europe) Well, its been a week and Im starting to feel pretty much at home again in my erratically adopted
An article in Playbill, by way of ArtsJournal, announces the stepping-down of Margo Jefferson as the Times’s second-string theatre critic. “Producers and artists widely objected to what they perceived as the patronizing, professorial tone of her reviews, which often began with lofty pronouncements on the
A communique from Hieronymous BANG, via High Times. Heh-heh.
No, its not a casting call, its a play reading for the smart set. OPEN CALL (a staged reading) A play about theater trash. Written by Jim Strahs Directed by Young Jean Lee With: Thomas Bradshaw, Eric Dyer, Jesse Hawley, Aimee McCormick, Rollo Royce, Kate