Category Archives: Etcetera

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you’re hired!

I’m sure y’all read the NY Times article on Theater > News & Features > The Broadway Producer Baby” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/04/theater/newsandfeatures/04WEBE.html”>The New York Times > Theater >Arielle Tepper and the Summer Play Festival. It seems kinda like The Apprentice for playwrights. Any suggestions on which ones

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Call for Entries – TFI

The Tribeca Film Institute has started a program called Tribeca All Access Open Stage, that is meant to provide exposure for playwrights of color to the national theater community. Submissions are accepted until July 16th.

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a quick one while he’s away

Sorry for not updating for awhile. Things have been crazy busy and the Culturebot team of trusty interns is still getting oriented. So, while we try and come up with more exciting content for you here’s a few newsy tidbits: The Imagine04 website is live.

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war is peace and other doublespeak

Culturebot usually focuses on arts & culture, but I just got back from seeing Michael Moore‘s new film Fahrenheit 9/11 and so I’m going to get a little political on your a**. Go. See. This. Movie. As a long-standing member of the liberal left and

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That’s So Gay!

So we’ve been really busy. So busy, in fact, that we forgot to post an announcment about the WYSIWYG Talent Show we had tonight. It was for Gay Pride and was called That’s So Gay: Tales of Extremely Gay Gayness. It rocked. Sold out crowd.

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Talking to Ping Chong and Michael Rohd

During a visit to my hometown in Ohio, a friend invited me to Kent State University’s production of Blind Ness The Irresistible Light of Encounter. The show is a multi-disciplinary theater work that uses movement, puppetry and projections to explore Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,

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LGBT Summer Performance Festaculars

This summer there is a veritable cornucopia of LGBT Performance Festivals celebrating Pride and beyond. Culturebot Contributor Rachel Kramer Bussel provides us with an overview of QueerFestsNYC!

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fun with gay marriage

Writer, performer and P.S. 122 co-founder Tim Miller has a great essay on gay marriage up on Nerve.com. Check it out.

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Kushner, Kabul and Change

Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul has been through many changes since it first appeared at NYTW in December 2001. So has the political and cultural landscape. Writer, dramaturg and Culturebot contributor Aaron Leichter discusses the changes in the work and its implications in relation to the culture

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summertime

Summer’s off to a good start and there’s tons o’ good theater happening. Last night was the kick-off for Clubbed Thumb’s summer festival, Summerworks 2004. With new plays by Rinne Groff (from Elevator Repair Service), Sheila Callaghan and Brighde Mullins and with directors like Trip

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The New New

Over the holiday Culturebot took a brief respite from his duties as cultural man-about-town. Never fear, though, we will soon be back at our fighting weight as our legions of spies are hard at work crafting insightful analyses of arts both high and low. In