Month: May 2010

  • Come Out and Play!

    This looks like a lot of fun! The Come Out & Play Festival is coming to Brooklyn in 2010. The festival will run June 4-6, 2010 in the Park Slope and Gowanus Canal neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York. The Brooklyn Lyceum will be hosting the 2010 festival. From the website: Each year the Come Out & Play…

  • Fundraiser for Great Small Works

    FRIDAY, MAY 21st DANCE YOUR FUNKIN’ BRASS OFF! 10:00 PM-2:00 AM at St. Ann’s Warehouse 38 Water Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn DJs and Live Bands: Slavic Soul Party, Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old: just what its name says Debo Band, Boston’s 11 piece Ethio-groove collective Spanglish Fly, a…

  • Obies. Not.

    Valerie Work, who has covered the Obies for the past three years for OffOffOnline.com, posted about being denied press credentials this year. According to her article her press request was met with the following denial: “The management of the Voice has chosen to deemphasize online coverage of this year’s awards,” explains press representative Gail Parenteau,…

  • Obie Winners 2010

    OBIE WINNERS 2010 The Sustained Achievement Award David Greenspan Best New American Play (w/check for $1000) Annie Baker, CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION and THE ALIENS Performance Ensemble, CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (Playwrights Horizons) (Reed Birney, Tracee Chimo, Peter Friedman, Deirdre O’Connell, Heidi Schreck) Dane DeHaan, THE ALIENS (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater) Jonathan Hammond, THE BOYS IN THE BAND…

  • Roman Tragedies at Festival Transameriques

    Festival Transameriques looks like it is going to be really cool. Check out the trailer for Ivo Van Hove’s Roman Tragedies:

  • Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival June 5 and 6

    Arts in Bushwick is pleased to announce that Bushwick Open Studios and Arts Festival is back and bigger than ever. Now in its fourth year, BOS ’10 includes over 275 individual studios, shows and events involving more than 500 artists in over 140 locations. This free annual festival invites visual artists, performers, musicians, designers and…

  • 3LD Facing Eviction

    The Metropolitan Transit Authority has threatened to evict the experimental media and theater group 3-Legged Dog from its Lower Manhattan building. The authority notified the group on Friday that it would begin eviction proceedings on Monday if 3-Legged Dog did not pay the more than $306,000 it owes the authority in back rent and interest.…

  • Movement Research Benefit Tonight

    There are a very limited number of performance only tickets left for the Movement Research Gala Performance and Party tonight. The Gala is honoring Cynthia Hedstrom and DANCENOISE and features work and performances by: Charles Atlas Lucinda Childs Dance Ishmael Houston-Jones with special guests John Kelly Jon Kinzel with Vicky Shick Jennifer Monson & Yvonne…

  • Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks 2010

    Obie Award-winning Clubbed Thumb proudly presents Summerworks 2010, their 15th annual festival of new plays, from June 2 to 26, 2010, at the Ohio Theatre, located at 66 Wooster Street, between Spring & Broome, in Soho, NY. Here’s the line-up: Dot (June 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12) In which old Dot and the weird…

  • Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play

    Saturday night took us to see Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play presented by The Epic Theatre Ensemble at the Irondale Center. The show got a rave in the NY TIMES and we had several friends who were similarly enthusiastic, so while I wasn’t sure what to expect, I went in with very high hopes. So I…

  • Bushwhack Series at Bushwick Starr

    Friday night took Culturebot out to Bushwick Starr for the Bushwhack Series. We’re almost embarrassed to admit that we haven’t been out to the venue before, but we had such a great time we are sure to be back.  Its a relatively quick trip to the Jefferson stop on the L train and about a…

  • Envisioning Contemporary Jewish Theater

    I finally figured out how to insert Vimeo videos into blog posts! Here’s a lecture I gave at JTS a little over a year ago on Envisioning Contemporary Jewish Theater and Performance: