mdonohue bio
I promised Andy I’d send a bio months ago and instead posted a bunch of APAP blog responses. Since I’m in the midst of prepping and touring to Hawaii (yessss), I’m not seeing anything for the next week and half and can take the moment
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Submissions Wanted – Be My Guest
in the interest of community engagement i want to put out there that i’m always looking for new writers… but if you don’t have the time to commit to being an ongoing contributor I’m also looking for essays, points of view, rants, raves, different perspectives….
Auto Da Fe and ADS
It is the season of opposites! Thursday I saw International WOW’s production of AUTO DA FE and Friday I saw Richard Maxwell’s ADS at PS122. I thought seeing HUSBANDS and Edgar Oliver back to back was a study in opposites… well this was even more
Ten Dollar Tix to MIMIC at PS122
Performed by Raymond Scannell, one of Ireland’s most exciting new theatrical voices (Best Male Performer, Dublin Fringe 2009), MIMIC is a finely tuned solo performance that intertwines a culture and an individual in spiritual freefall. Poetic, prescient, darkly humorous, MIMIC casts a spell. “I love it
PS122 Announces Spring Season
I’ll do a more extensive write-up later… but we just received PS122”s spring season and it looks like a doozy! New work from Radiohole, Adrienne Truscott and Lewis Forever, a new creation/collaboration with rising star Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a special show by downtown legends Tom Murrin
Five Questions for Isaac Butler
Name: Isaac Butler Title/Occupation: Freelance theatre director and writer Organization/Company: Various, but most people know me for Parabasis, my blog. URL: http://parabasis.typepad.com 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in Washington, D.C., I lived
EXPERIMENTS and DISORDERS
Dixon Place presents EXPERIMENTS and DISORDERS curated by Tom Cole and Christen Clifford featuring Stephen Elliot, Lucy Sexton and Lia Gangitano Tues, January 19 7:30 pm $6 161A Chrystie Street (212) 219-0736 (F,V to 2nd Ave) In Dixon Place’s long running experimental reading series, novelist
Karen Finley's Got The Jackie Look
She’s back! The first lady of performance art, Karen Finley, brings her new show THE JACKIE LOOK to the Laurie Beechman Theater January 30 – March 6, 2010. For those of you who have never experienced Ms. Finley, you should check out this one-woman tsunami
Everywhere and All At Once
“The Performa biennial is the most visible feature of a museum without walls,” writes RoseLee Goldberg in the introduction to her new book, EVERYWHERE AND ALL AT ONCE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF WRITINGS ON PERFORMA 07 (JRP|Ringier; January 2010; $45/Paperback). “For three weeks, every other year,
The Devil You Know
Wednesday night found us at LaMama for THE DEVIL YOU KNOW. Created by award winning playwright and director Ping Chong who has joined forces with marionette artist and composer Erik Sanko and set designer Jessica Grindstaff – also known as Phantom Limb Co. – THE
MUST – The Inside Story
Last night took us to Peggy Shaw’s MUST-The Inside Story. Peggy, co-founder of WoW Cafe and Split Britches is something of a legend. One of the groundbreaking figures of lesbian/feminist theater she continues to create compelling work that is resonant and meaningful. In MUST, Peggy
Chuck Klosterman Is A Friend Of Mine: A Review of One Chapter In "Eating The Dinosaur"
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Chuck Klosterman since 2003 when his book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifest erupted. I bought this book in the New York City subway and read it in a week worth of A train rides. I