Yearly Archives: 2009

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Greetings Culturebot

Howdy all, I’m Jeff Hnilicka, a new contributor to culturebot.  The last name is pronounced with a silent H – it means “rotten fruit” in Czech. I currently live in Brooklyn, and am Company Manager for JMandle Performance, a multi-disciplinary non-profit organization.  I am also

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Little Theater!

Maybe that was it!? Maybe that’s what I was doing on Monday, February 2nd?! One way or another, Little Theatre is always a good time! Now at the NEW Dixon Place!!! With twice as much betterness! *************************************************************** Little Theatre, Vol IX, No. 3 – February,

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February 2

I RSVPed to something for february 2nd. For the life of me I can’t remember what it was. Do you? Remind me!

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Okada-san ke Ichi-ban!

I have heard great things about this company. And I saw a DVD of their work and really, really liked it. This is, like, the hippest Japanese alternative, experimental, contemporary theater happening. they do this crazy weird fidgeting/gesture movement stuff with what (apparently) is kind

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art star auditions – UK

Man oh man, I want to do this in the U.S.! Culturebot presents Art Star AMERICA! Anyhoo – if you’re in the UK, maybe you’ll be London’s next It-Boy/Girl: Saatchi’s “Best of British“: Enter your artwork for a national (UK) search for individuals who possess

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how i learned…at happy ending

my dear old friend Bazima is hosting her very own reading series!! first one is Wednesday! The How I Learned… at Happy Ending Reading Series presents “How I Learned to Steal From the Liquor Cabinet: Stories About Drinking (…Or Not Drinking)” Featuring: Mike Albo (The Underminer, Hornito, New

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random interesting things

from artsjournal newsletter: “Is the internet killing real critics?” [dailygorilla.com] – they say “yes”, I say “no”. Criticism, real criticism, has been dead since the early 90’s if not before. Now we have reviewers, which is entirely different. The proliferation of mainstream media and ad-revenue

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Nonsense Company in NYC

Okay so these guys are good and I think you should go check them out.  One of the first things I did when I started fixing up IRT was to create and implement the residency program. NONSENSE COMPANY was the first (and only) out-of-state residency

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Art Dubai

I have no idea what this is like but I’m curious as hell. Maybe someone will fly me over to Dubai to check it out. Art Dubai  Taking place from March 19 until 21, 2009, the third edition of Art Dubai – one of the

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FireFall

JOHN JESURUN’S FIREFALL AT DTW FEBRUARY 4-7 AT 7:30 POST SHOW TALK WITH JULIETTE MAPP ON FEB. 4 “Jesurun’s visionary new theater swoops into your mind violently…and vanishes leaving you dazed and tingling. A pleasure to watch.” – The Village Voice John Jesurun’s groundbreaking pieces

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Oh Really? Really???

Please just fucking kill me. In the New Yorker review of Young Jean’s show at the Kitchen Hilton Als leads with: One generally hesitates before identifying a new trend in the American theatre, largely because language has a tendency to fix and limit the joy

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Culture Blogger Seeks MBA for Good Times and LTR.

So now that I’ve discovered flyover i’m starting to get addicted. my original vision for Culturebot was to have this site be a portal/aggregator for a series of regional blogs (like the Gothamist family of blogs) but I’ve never been able to get the funding