Month: July 2009

  • 13P's MONSTROSITY opens tonight

    Badass playwrights’ collective 13P is on to P#8, Lucy Thurber, whose brand-new MONSTROSITY opens at the Connelly Theater tonight. Lear deBessonet is directing, the cast is all-star, and I will […]

  • DTW announces 2009-2010 Season

    FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: Dance Theater Workshop’s 2009-2010 season showcases dedication to artistic exploration, innovation, and quality programming through Dance Theater Workshop’s commissioning program, Season of Returns, Studio Series Creative […]

  • embrace change

    after my umpteenth confrontation with a clueless baby-boomer talking smack about the emerging new world i’ve decided to write a brief guide to living in the information age.  this is […]

  • A Black And White World Group Show

    A BLACK AND WHITE WORLD short summer group show July 16 – August Opening Reception & Live Art Performance Thursday, July 16, 2009, 6-9pm Elia Alba Michael Van den Besselaar […]

  • Nouvelle Epoque Cabaret-Salon

    Another fascinating event from Gemini & Scorpio: Nouvelle Époque Cabaret-Salon Fri, July 17, 8pm-late (VIP reception 7-9pm) The Players private club, 16 Gramercy Park South, $30-$10, 21+ Details & RSVP: http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html FB: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=96321774194 […]

  • One and Other

    This is cool. A public art project in London called One and Other where ordinary citizens can stand on a normally-unoccupied plinth in Trafalgar Square. “This is not about privilege, not […]

  • Repo Man at 25

    It just occurred to me that one of my fave movies of all time turned 25 this year. So I thought I’d post a link to an article I wrote […]

  • Five Questions for Robert Lyons

    Name:  Robert Lyons Title/Occupation:  Artististic Director Organization/Company:  Soho Think Tank / Ohio Theatre 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I […]

  • Blueprint for Accountability

    MSNBC host Rachel Maddow launched Culture Project‘s “Blueprint for Accountability” series on May 31st. Maddow was joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Suskind, Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional […]

  • FADE into Galapagos

    Mark your calendar now! Time Out’s intrepid theater editor DAVID COTE will have a a one-night-only concert presentation of his 30-minute opera FADE on Friday, July 17 at 8pm (doors open at […]

  • Origins of the Moonwalk

    Very cool video showing the origins of MJ’s Moonwalk: ORIGINS OF THE MOONWALK Dancers (in alphabetical order):  Fred Astaire, Bill Bailey, Buck and Bubbles, Cab Calloway, Clark Brothers, Sammy Davis […]

  • Deep Reading and the Fetishization of Live Experience

    The NY TIMES has an article on Twitter and new technologies being used in religious environments that describes a recent church service: While hundreds of worshipers watched the traditional dramatization […]