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 personally hand you an icy cup of free lemonade. Do not miss this. Tickets here.
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 Residency Program, Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program, Lobby TALKS, and Family Matters. Strategic partnerships
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 directed at everybody who is complaining about “those darn kids” and the death of print
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 Jason Clay Lewis Fernando Mora Pesu Alicia Ross Konstantinos Stamatiou Eric White BLACK & WHITE
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 La Belle Époque was a time of artistic and intellectual abandon. Painters, poets, philosophers, and
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 about power, not about war or honoring the dead,” said the artist, Antony Gormley. “It’s
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 for Nerve.com several years ago about this extraordinary punk masterpiece.
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 was born in Detroit Mi and raised in the suburbs. I left Michign when I
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 Rights, and Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez. Here’s an edited clip: “Blueprint for Accountability” gathers the
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 7) at Galapagos in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Davidcreated FADE last year with composer Stefan Weisman and
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 Jr., Daniel L. Haynes, Rubberneck Holmes, Patterson and Jackson, Eleanor Powell, Bill Robinson, Three Chefs
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 of the Crucifixion from pews in the church, one of New York’s oldest, thousands more