Month: September 2009

  • Rotten Shame

    The Meat Puppets are back! Check it out:

  • The Referendum

    During this time of reflection,  I was delighted to come across this article by Tim Kreider called “The Referendum” in The NY TIMES. A pitch-perfect article for anybody who is or will be evaluating their life. Ah, the humanity.

  • L'Shana Tovah!

    Happy Rosh HaShanah! If posting is a bit light around here, its because of the Jewish holidaze.

  • Miguel Gutierrez opens at DTW

    Opening Tuesday, and running till Sept 19, Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People will be showing their first group piece since 2007.  Always provocative on stage, on a panel, or leading DEEP AEROBICS, Miguel is sure to start the DTW season off with a bang.  The newest piece Last Meadow was inspired by James Dean…

  • Volunteers Needed for PRELUDE

    Calling all lovers of downtown theatre and performance! Prelude 09: Ecologies, Economies, and Engagement is currently looking for a few good hands to volunteer for festival outreach and hospitality. Prelude 09 is an amazing opportunity to get involved with New York’s downtown theatre and performance scene, and is chock full of fantastic parties, symposia, and…

  • Provenance and Aftermath

    This weekend Culturebot saw two shows that explored foreign lands – The Foundry Theater’s The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue and NYTW’s Aftermath, a documentary theater piece exploring the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq through transcribed interviews with Iraqis.  Each in their own way is about the perils of forced gentrification…

  • R.I.P. Jim Carroll

    Jim Carroll, author of The Basketball Diaries, is dead at 60 of a heart attack. Years and years ago, when Culturebot first moved to NYC we met Jim Carroll. He saw us perform at a spoken word show and we got to talking. He was super nice and really mild mannered, considering the life he’d…

  • Meet the Curator – Patrick Grant

    Name: Patrick Grant Title: Composer/Performer/Producer Affiliation: Curator & Co-Producer of “The MMiX Festival of Interactive Music Technology” URL: http://www.theaterlabnyc.com/Theaterlab3/MMiX.html 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Detroit where I studied music composition and classical performance by day while playing in Punk/New Wave…

  • The Results Are In

    The results are in and even though its a small-ish sample, it seems like folks really like the interviews most. Thanks to all of you who voted! This will definitely help inform how we plan to grow Culturebot and which directions we’ll be exploring. If you have other ideas or thoughts, please feel free to…

  • New Island Festival starts today

    If you haven’t been out to Governor’s Island this summer, for the next two weekends, you have no excuse. If you’ve already braved the line for the ferry, I don’t need to convince you of the island’s magic. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Dutch landing on Governor’s Island, our friends from the Netherlands…

  • PRELUDE 2009 ARTIST LINE-UP

    Artists for this year’s PRELUDE are: Marina Abramovic Bruce High Quality Foundation The Chocolate Factory Erin Courtney Steve Cuiffo William Cusick Andrew Dinwiddie Branden Jacobs-Jenkins John Jesurun Kristen Kosmas Aaron Landsman David Levine The Living Theatre Mad Dog Experimental David Michalek NYC Players Object Collection Radiohole Jay Scheib SPOTLIGHT: KOREA Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf…

  • the future of arts journalism

    apparently Culturebot is not the future of arts journalism.  at least not yet. oh but we shall see. you’re darned tootin’ mister.