Month: March 2006

  • progress reports

    Gay City News has been running some “progress reports” from various arts organizations. You can read my contribution here. You can read Linda Shelton and Martin Wechsler from The Joyce here. And you cna read Laurie Uprichard from Danspace Project here. I’m not sure if they’re planning on running more of these, but it is…

  • culturebot out of town

    on friday evening we went to philadelphia to see pig iron theatre‘s Mission to Mercury, which was really delightful. A surreal trip through the Queen songbook, loosely telling the tale of two techies who are haunted and transformed by the ghosts of rock glories past. It was funny – the two tech guys are very…

  • Pappa Tarahumara

    Just a heads-up if you don’t have plans for tonight. We saw Pappa Tarahumara‘s Island last night at the Japan Society and it was really fantastic, magical even. This is their first time in America, though they’ve been touring internationally for over twenty years. The company has a vast body of work, all directed by…

  • On The Censorship of Rachel Corrie

    We just got an interesting and thought-provoking email essay from Caridad Svich. Caridad is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, a contributing editor at TheatreForum, an editorial board member of Contemporary Theatre Review and the founder of NoPassport, a pan-American theatre & performance collective. Her essay is presented below, unedited, with her permission. *** “On…