The Digest: May 11, 2011
This week’s performance must-reads: a British playwright likes German director’s theater, a great performance art story that gets better the faker it is, young playwrights in blinders, and more
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Urban Catwalk @ Artspace/Yale, New Haven, Worrrrrrrkkkkk!
A new conference explores the socio-political facets of contemporary fashion
My Coma Dreams at Peak Performances
Sunday afternoon Culturebot went out to Montclair to check out Fred Hersch’s My Coma Dreams as part of the Peak Performances series. It was a tuneful and moving piece of music-theater.
Contemporary Performance Network’s Video Documentation Contest
Show off you performance goods for tote bags and CPN glory
Made HERE on Arts, Artists, and Money
The Made HERE Project moves on to the moneys issues
Target Margin Theater’s “The Tempest”
Director David Herskovits and performer Steve Rattazzi discuss the company’s imaginative new production of “The Tempest,” opening this week at HERE Arts Center
Culturebot’s Weekend Plans: May 6, 2011
Culturebot’s Weekend Plans: And you thought Foursquare made being a stalker easy
Heather Kravas’s “The Green Surround” at PS122
Nine dancers deconstruct the demands society places on women to achieve perfection in a challenging new dance piece
The Kitchen’s 40th Anniversary Gala, Honoring Philip Glass
The Kitchen hits the big four-oh in style
Portland’s H2M Theater Debuts “Uncanny Valley”
A sci-fi inspired spelunking expedition into the treacherous terrain of memory from Portland’s beloved devised theater company
The Digest: May 4, 2011
On the importance of doing nothing, the rigmarole of new play development, a Parabasis bookclub & more
SITI Company’s “Under Construction” Fulfills its Title
SITI’s new show has all the strengths you expect from Bogart & co., but it doesn’t quite manage the punch you’d want