Month: June 2010

  • Five Questions for Greg Manley

    Culturebot contributor DJ McDonald asks FIVE QUESTIONS of Greg Manley, Commissioner of the Circle Rules Federation and inventor of Circle Rules Football.

  • UCLA Live cuts international theater from program

    UCLA Live has officially extinguished the house lights on its signature international theater festival, eliminating theater from its 2010-11 schedule, announced Tuesday.

  • FUTURE CINEMA PRESENT BLOW UP

    For their New York launch, London’s Future Cinema presents an immersive experience of Michaelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 iconic classic ‘Blow Up’ on Wednesday 30th June at 8PM at Shangri La Studios, 100 Sutton Street in Greenpoint. This event is FREE.

  • NY International @ LaMama Moves

    The final program for this year’s Dance Festival at La Mama was appropriately a mixed bill of artists hailing from far flung points of origin.  As I mentioned in my […]

  • Bumbershoot (Seattle) Announces Line-Up

    The 40th Annual Bumbershoot: Seattle’s Music & Arts Festival, taking place September 4-6 at Seattle Center, announces the Words & Ideas, Performing Arts, Spectacle, and Theatre program lineups.

  • Five Questions for Tere O'Connor

    Check out these Five Questions with Tere O’Connor whose WROUGHT IRON FOG plays at DTW June 23 – 26 at 7:30pm.

  • HOW I LEARNED MUSIC COULD SAVE MY LIFE

    I will be making a special appearance at my friend Blaise’s reading series called “How I Learned…” on Wednesday, June 23rd at 8PM at Happy Ending Bar.

  • The Power of Hula @ La Mama Moves

    Hula is the soul of Hawaii expressed through dance, reflecting central ideas and historic or mythic events in tales told through hand gestures, chants and/or songs.  Though once a form […]

  • The Twenty-Five Cent Opera of San Francisco – June 27

    Kristen Kosmas and friends’ new(ish) performance and reading series, the The Twenty-Five Cent Opera of San Francisco, has its latest installment Sunday June 27th at Barbes.

  • Open Mouth Insert Foot

    A disgruntled cast member sent out an embarrassing email invite to The Octoroon that subsequently got published in The Voice. Ouch.

  • Five Questions for Emmanuele Phuon

    The New York premiere of Brussels-based, French-Cambodian choreographer Emmanuèle Phuon’s fascinating collaborative investigation Khmeropédies I & II will be at BAC this week. Over the past two years, she has worked in Cambodia with dancers trained in classical Khmer dance.

  • EMPAC Announces Line-Up for FILAMENT

    RPI’s EMPAC announced the line-up for FILAMENT – a festival of new work in performance, visual arts, sound, and media that will be held in Troy, NY from October 1–3, 2010. It highlights EMPAC’s mission to support international and national artists in the creation and production of work via its residency and commissioning programs.