Month: September 2008

  • Complete Lack of Confidence

    From this article in the WSJ: Officials in Europe, facing a widening banking crisis on the continent, on Tuesday urged the U.S. to pass the rescue plan this week. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the quick passage of a rescue package is “the precondition for creating new confidence on the markets — and that is…

  • To Be Straight With You

    A few years ago former-DV8 performer Liam Steel and his company Stan Won’t Dance brought their show Sinner to NYC which John Rockwell called “British physical theater at its finest” in the NY Times.  Well, now we get to see the source of this intense, physical theater when DV8 comes to Montclair this weekend. Don’t…

  • PRELUDE THANKS YOU

    Here’s a big THANK YOU to all the artists, audience members, curators, thinkers, do-ers, staff and supporters of PRELUDE ’08. This year was absolutely phenomenal.  Pretty much every showing and talkback and panel was full, there was performance in the library, the halls, the lobby, the auditoriums, on the street and even in Second Life!…

  • PRELUDE update

    Thanks to Beatrice for picking up the editorial slack around here while yours truly is neck-deep in PRELUDE! It has been going really well – check in with Claudia and Art.Cult for updates. also check out the article in TIME OUT! – and check the Prelude Blog for updates and illustrations from Michael D. Arthur!

  • La Mama: “Atomic City”

    There is a visually stunning and not very well publicized production at La Mama that will be running through September 28. Atomic City is a clever composit of dance, theater and live music that takes spectators into the lives of two neighboring families whose troubled patres familias both work as physicists in the town’s laboratory.…

  • French Institute Alliance Française: “While We Were Holding It Together”.

    Ivana Müller’s While We Were Holding It Together is a very still dance piece currently showing at FIAF (French Institute Alliance Française). In this work, the Croatian born choreographer has brought together a cast of five performers whose central task for the piece is to remain immobile, living sculptures posing in a tableau in the…

  • Work At The Whitney

    I been so busy with the PRELUDE I forgot to post this. I am way behind schedule. Anyhoo – okay so PRELUDE is opening tomorrow night with an awesome panel and then a party at Chorus Karaoke (FREE KARAOKE from 8PM-10PM) and then all weekend long performances from all your favorite downtown theater peeps. dig…

  • LOUDER

    This weekend – I’m not sure when the show starts, maybe Thursday – when you’re not at PRELUDE (and you should pretty much be there every day) – but when you’re not – go to PS122 to go see Verdensteatret’s LOUDER. I was blown away when they did CONCERT FOR GREENLAND back in ’05. This…

  • The IT Awards

    I went to the IT Awards last night – well most of it.  It is amazing how much theater there is in this town! I hadn’t heard of a lot of these companies. I’d say I need to get out more, but I can’t get our more without replicating myself. Lisa Kron was super-funny as…

  • The Kitchen: “Anger/Nation”

    Photo by Paula Court, On entering The Kitchen this Saturday, I was curious to see how Radiohole had dealt with Chelsea’s sizable performance space for the staging of ANGER/NATION, their latest production. The company usually performs at the Collapsable Hole, a theater made from two neighboring garages in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and a space they share…

  • Idiocracy

    We have all now witnessed apparently sentient human beings, once provoked by a reporter’s microphone, saying things like, “I’m voting for Sarah because she’s a mom. She knows what it’s like to be a mom.” Such sentiments suggest an uncanny (and, one fears, especially American) detachment from the real problems of today. The next administration…

  • Download the PRELUDE Program

    Okay everybody! Wanna get the scoop on the whole thing!? Download the Web-Optimized version of the Prelude ’08 Program and get a sneak-peek of this season’s most awesomest all-FREE downtown theatrical extravaganza!!!