Month: April 2009

  • HT WRITE FOR THE AMERICAN THEATER

    Hi. Larious!! from & created by Threat Quality, h/t to Ghostlight for the link:

  • Foot Notes at Chez Bushwick Tonight!!

    This looks really cool: Chez Bushwick  in collaboration with Brooklyn Arts Council: Folk Arts Program presents Foot Notes: Folk Feet Meet Modern Feet A Traditional & Modern Dance Mash-Up Saturday, April 18th, 2009 7:00pm – 9:00pm FREE!!! This traditional and modern dance performance “mash-up” features Brooklyn-based dancers of culturally-specific traditions alongside contemporary dancers. PERFORMANCES BY…

  • Danielle’s Magic, indeed.

    the internets rule because you get to hear/see stuff like this:

  • End of Year Wrap-Up

    WELCOME TO THE FIRST CULTUREBOT READER POLL! Okay – so the “Other” option doesn’t list names, so please put your favorite show of the past season in the the comments section!!

  • New Things, New Worlds

    Um. First off – please go vote on the Facebook Site Governance Proposal. I know I sound like a wackadoodle sometimes, but as I’ve mentioned, FB is the world’s sixth largest country after Brazil. And even though business people seem to think that letting users set policy will doom FB to failure, I disagree. If…

  • Eventos en Mayo de LaMicroTheater

    in my inbox from mis amigos de LaMicroTheater May Events: Latino Plays on the Road: Reading Series Burned Meat / Carne Quemada by Jaime Nieto directed by Luis Galli (Spanish) With Sergio Arras, Arturo Batalla, Bill Blechingberg, Marisol Carrere, Ana María Estrada, Inma Heredia, Luis Galli, Pietro González and Dominique Pérez When: Friday May 1st…

  • Factory & Market. AUNTS Here.

    We Love JM Leary and her friends: FACTORY & MARKET APRIL 18 & MAY 1 2009 Co-produced by ROLL CALL The Movement Research Spring Festival 09 FACTORY Saturday April 18, 10am – 11pm FACTORY consolidates resources for production of custom-made art works in All media All day long, starting early, making SHIrTs!!! Curators, artists and…

  • Oh Bumbershoot, How You Have Grown!

    When I lived in Seattle (1990=1995) Bumbershoot was a fun art festival. Now its an entertainment festacular! Maybe they’d like to hire me to curate the performance and make it a full-on Live Arts Festival. Check it out: BUMBERSHOOT®: SEATTLE’S MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL, PRESENTED BY SAMSUNG MOBILE LABOR DAY WEEKEND: SEPTEMBER 5 – SEPTEMBER…

  • It’s Hell In Here

    IT’S HELL IN HERE by BAX theater artist in residence  Abigail Browde Friday & Saturday May 1-2 at 8pm | Sunday, May 3 at 6pm  at BAX 421 Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11215  |  Tel. (718) 832 0018 $15 general admission | $8 student/sr. FOR RESERVATIONS:  www.bax.org or (718) 832-0018 IT’S HELL IN HERE is a meditation on public and private information.  Based…

  • Is It Far Enough Along to Not Be Embarassing?

    Somewhere in my parents’ basement I have an original copy of this  poster:   Hats off to Ben Ratliff for going public. Maybe the time has finally come to overlook the patchouli-stink and muddle-headed vacuity of so many Deadheads and start regarding the Grateful Dead as major inventors and innovators the New American Folk Music.

  • Jack Ferver at Danspace

    Jack Ferver at Danspace this weekend only! http://www.danspaceproject.org/performance/thisweek.html Everything changes. Everything dies. We can struggle, but we will lose. Get a little more (or less) comfortable with change, death, and choreographer Jack Ferver, as he and dancers Liz Santoro and Tony Orrico, look at the manipulative, savage and desperate ways we try to resist the…

  • New Museum Presents

    Tonight and tomorrow at New Museum: Seattle-based art performance band Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE) is in the midst of creation of their newest work Sonic Tales. The New Museum hosts the ensemble for a week of audience interactions, rehearsals, and experiments culminating in two nights of performance that will showcase this piece in progress. This…