just got this recommendation in from culturebot contributor Ryan Tracy: This week at Danspace, Liz Sargent presents her new work, Revealing, May 17–20 (Thurs-Sun). Liz’s deeply personal work combines movement and interactive sets to create a meditation on personal boundaries, self expression and the risks
There was a nice write-up in Sunday’s Times on the Rapture Cafe, a little oasis of arty, old-skool East Village ethos. Owned by Joe Birdsong and managed by Brian Butterick (aka drag performer Hattie Hathaway), the coffee shop-slash-bookstore-slash-performance space has become a club house of
While perusing Jeremy McCarter’s review of Deuce in the current issue of New York, this sentence caught our eye: “Not to take anything away from the special badness of this play, but it’s worth noting that American playwriting (above 14th Street, anyway) has been in
The P.S.122 benefit is sold out but come party afterwards when THE VINTAGE DJ presents his inimitable TRANS-TEMPORALDANCE PARTY for The Performance Space 122 Spring Gala 2007 AFTER-PARTY Monday, May 14th, 2007 11pm to 1:30am @ THE VAULT at Element, 225 East Houston Street (entrance
According to The Guardian, “now may be a good time to offer a few words of gratitude to the most underappreciated patron of New York theatre: you, the British taxpayer.” Read the rest of the article here. [thanks to artsjournal for the tip]
Okay, I know this has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the arts, but… I was sitting on the 6 train to work, reading the New York Post over the shoulder of the guy next to me, when I saw this headline: “Watch Your Mouth: Oral-Sex
The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab was founded in 1998 to explore and develop the work of an emerging generation of theater artists, and to foster new collaborations between writers and directors in the beginning stages of the creative process. They are currently accepting submission for
While it reads like a master’s thesis, this weekend conference at Cooper Union will probably the best thing you experience this month. I say that only because the brains behind the curtain are known to do some great stuff…. Cooper Union (self-explanatory), Creative Time (a
The Experimental Performance Institute (EPI), located in San Francisco is auditioning for its unique interdisciplinary Performance Studies program. Auditions are Wednesday, May 30, 10:00am-noon, Spaces @ A.R.T., 520 8th Ave 3rd floor, New York City. The Experimental Performance Institute (EPI) is San Francisco’s EPI-center for
Play Journal’s Sally Oswald curates with Jennifer Tsuei: EXPERIMENTAL TEXT FESTIVAL Presented by the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator May 10-13, 2007 Six jewel-like performances created by artists from Poetry, Theater, Dance, Film, and Visual Art. Each project features a graphically dynamic, unusually notated, and formally rebellious text
Casting Opportunity: European prod. co. seeks 3 males and 4 females to be cast as subjects from Andy Warhol’s “Interview” magazine. They’re talking head recordings that will be shot in an open theater. The roles are diverse and include: sporty and playboy-type white males (20’s);
We receive a slew of press releases and pitches in the Culturebot inbox (when we remember to check) which are greeted with varying amounts of enthusiasm, dismay or indifference, depending on which editor remembered to fetch the email. Occasionally, we even end up writing about