Month: April 2009

  • Party with The Wooster Group

    After the April 24 performance of LA DIDONE there will be a massive benefit party for the Wooster Group. RAWK!!!! FISCHERSPOONER DJ SET will be from 10pm-2am. There’s gonna be free booze and some munchies. In line with the stripped down party atmosphere are the ticket prices: $50 for the party only, $100 to see…

  • Fuzzy Information

    Ok, so I don’t know much about either of these.  But I got a good feeling. Thursday night at Glasslands – something related to the superstar Helen Harris. Friday night is OMG Michelle hosting at Public Assembly. Both are in Williamsburg.  Both will start later than 9, but earlier than midnight. I literally have no…

  • PEN World Voices Festival – April 27 / May 3

    PEN organiza hace ya unos años un festival de escritores que resulta siempre interesante. Se llevara a cabo en NYC del 27 de Abril al 3 de Mayo y participaran los siguientes escritores de habla hispana (by the way, que pena que no haya ni una sola mujer en esta lista!) Horacio Castellanos Moya (Honduras…

  • Totally Gnar Gnar, brah

    I love a 420 party.  Remember when you used to take off work for our favorite holiday? Why stay at home listening to Blind Melon?  Come on down to Dixon Place instead. Amber Martin in 420: Janis Presented by Earl Dax and Dixon Place Monday, April 20 Dixon Place 161 Chrystie Street, NY, NY “Be-In”…

  • Our Hit Parade! Tonight!

    CHECK THIS OUT TONIGHT!  This once a month affair is not to be missed.  More fun than you can shake a stick at.  And you can shake a stick at LOTS of fun. OUR HIT PARADE is a live top-ten countdown show created by Tony nominee and Obie winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki & Herb), carnal…

  • Chat w/ Dan Fishback

    The down and dirty: Go see Dan Fishback’s new play: You Will Experience Silence at Dixon Place April 17 & 18 at 10pm; April 21 & 22 at 8pm So I caught opening night last weekend – my first event at the new Dixon Place -which looks beautiful. Earl Dax, curator of the HOT! festival…

  • next weekend at the Kitchen:

    Dance Justine Lynch: Middle of Man Melinda Ring: Hmmm… Thursday-Saturday, April 23-25, 8pm Tickets: $10 Curated by Dean Moss Choreographers Justine Lynch and Melinda Ring each premiere a new dance work in this shared evening. Lynch’s Middle of Man challenges the links between performance and healing through a kaleidoscopic merging of alchemy and movement. Employing…

  • Seeking a plus-one for Saturday double feature

    When you’ve been in this racket as long as I have, sometimes you just use up your friends’ patience for sitting through the obscure, the bizarre, the old-fashioned, the inscrutable. So I’m opening up this Saturday’s events to the first person to e-mail me at ezimmer at rcn dot com, willing to accompany me to…

  • Bush Six To Be Indicted

    Speaking of Spanish….in an exclusive, the Daily Beast’s Scott Horton says Spanish prosecutors will seek criminal charges against Alberto Gonzales and five high-ranking Bush administration officials for sanctioning torture at Guantanamo.

  • Festival Imaginarios de las Artes – FILA – Caracas, Venezuela

    Se inició el proceso de inscripciones para participar en los concursos para jóvenes creadores, en las categorías de graffiti, video, fotografía digital y teatro, de la Primera Edición del Festival Imaginarios de las Artes FILA, que se llevará a cabo entre el 28 de mayo y el 01 de julio, en distintas locaciones de Caracas,…

  • video of the day: “a play so brilliant it makes absolutely no sense to anybody”

    Want a laugh? Of course you do. Look, Sesame Street takes on existentialism some years ago: “Why couldn’t they do Oklahoma? I understand Oklahoma.”

  • personal-size playmaking

    Down at Soho Rep, they’ve just extended the run of “Rambo Solo,” the Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s latest foray into …what? Actor Zachary Oberzan, obsessed with the novel on which the RAMBO franchise is based, seems to have made his own action film in the tight precincts of an upper east side studio apartment. Spectators…