Monthly Archives: December 2009

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A Holiday Message from Ping Chong, Phantom Limb & Friends

Happy Holidays from Ping Chong, Phantom Limb & Friends: Theater wizard Ping Chong and Phantom Limb’sErik Sanko and Jessica Grindstaff join forces in The Devil You Know, a tantalizing tale of desperate deals, second chances and democracy’s eternal promise of renewal. The classic American Faust fable, “The

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green china, innovation, etc.

So I took some of my snow-y downtime to catch up on reading The New Yorker. There was a fantastic article last week on China’s  “crash program for clean energy“.  Far too much information to encapsulate here, but I love how this paragraph hits on

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COIL at PS122, Other Forces at Ontological

Oh and as if Under The Radar wasn’t enough – there’s PS122’s COIL festival and a total newcomer, the Other Forces Festival at the Ontological. Some of the shows in COIL are also in UTR, the Other Forces festival features three shows from three companies,

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UTR – new website

Check out Under The Radar’s new website! This new site is easy to navigate so you can plan your schedule and see all the great work going on at The Public, 3LD, HERE, Ps122, CSV, New Victory, The Ohio, LaMama and more. It is going

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Five Questions With Alexis Macnab

Name: Alexis Macnab Title/Occupation: Director-Adaptor, Theater Organization/Company: Infinite Coast URL: http://infinitecoast.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Evanston, Illinois, which is an idiyic place to raise cultured, liberal, yet still suburban

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wherefore art thou….oh, man!

Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Romeo and Juliet at The Kitchen is a bite-sized nugget of highbrow holiday goodness that you would be a fool to miss. Basically what they’ve done is asked a bunch of people what the story of R&J is, transcribed their answers

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Blast Theory Residency

Blast Theory is renowned internationally as one of the most adventurous artists’ groups using interactive media, creating groundbreaking new forms of performance and interactive art that mixes audiences across the internet, live performance and digital broadcasting. Led by Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick

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CHIP KIDD presents ARTBREAK at Dixon Place

You know how Culturebot loves cartoons and comic books stuff? Well this looks like it’ll be a hoot and a half! Save the Date and Check it out: CHIP KIDD presents ARTBREAK featuring MUSIC, ARTISTS and CARTOONS! One Night Only! TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29TH – 8PM

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Creative Time Open Door at P.S.1

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and Creative Time, the New York public art organization, announce Creative Time Open Door at P.S.1, an open call for New York–based artists to propose projects for the public realm, as part of P.S.1’s Free Space program. Artists are invited to

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triple canopy call for proposals

Triple Canopy works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large. I just found out that they are announcing their first call

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venus in furs

there’s a show opening up at CSC called Venus in Fur. It is billed as being “inspired by the novel of the same name” only the novel is actually Venus in Furs. It is a classic of erotic literature, written by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the