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Literary Death Match 3

Um. Culturebot will be making one of his rare public appearances on Monday. And normally he doesn’t use his considerable power as Editor to promote himself. But I will be reading at Sweet Fancy Moses‘s Literary Death Match III on Monday May 22 and I

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Cleansing the Senses

On Thursday night I attended the opening of Peter Rose’s show Cleansing the Senses and was really moved. Peter is a co-founder of P.S. 122 and he’s an intense guy. He’s a long-time acolyte of Grotowski, very into theatre as spiritual practice, and he comes

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The Vanilla In Manila (ViM) Diaries

“Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great

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P.S.122 co-founder Peter Rose Returns

P.S. 122 co-founder Peter Rose returns to the space from May 18-28 with his new work “Cleansing The Senses.” Influenced by Grotowski and the Open Movement sessions he introduced at P.S. 122, the performance is a unique and dynamic experience. Peter writes: “Cleansing the Senses”

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this weekend at P.S. 122

Tonight at P.S. 122 is opening night of Chris Elam and Misnomer Dance Theater’s Throw People which was described in this week’s New Yorker: “…the title of Chris Elam’s new two-part dance [Throw People], can be read partly as an imperative. People are thrown and

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Clubbed Thumb Summerworks 2006

New York, NY (March 30th, 2006) – OBIE Award winning Clubbed Thumb is proud to present their 11th annual summer festival of new plays, Summerworks 2006. The entire festival takes place at The Ohio Theatre (66 Wooster Street btwn. Spring and Broome) beginning June 4th

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i need an intern

culturebot needs an intern. or more accurately, P.S. 122 needs an intern to work in the programming department for the summer, preferably through September. If you or anyone you know is interested, email ANDY AT PS122 DOT ORG. It is unpaid but fun.

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bloody mary at csv

sorry for the paucity of posts but culturebot has been very very busy. between all the shows at P.S. 122 and tribute to spalding gray spring gala on thursday we have barely had time to breathe. But we did make it down to CSV on

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Light From The East

We just got an email about this film that sounds pretty cool. LIGHT FROM THE EAST, shot in the former USSR 1991, will be having a limited theatrical release in NY at the PIONEER THEATER (East 3rd St. and the corner of Ave. A) from

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Ivan Bellman is Blimey McEngland!

I wanted to hate the play. I don’t know why. I just did. Maybe it’s because I am on currently on a Baby Tour of London (“Bellman’s British Baby Blitzkrieg” was the alternate title of this hit). So I am not really kicking my normal

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this thursday and next

This Thursday is the opening of Andrew Dawson’s Absence & Presence at P.S. 122. I posted about it just a few days ago, but it is really beautiful and eloquent and you should definitely check it out. And then next Thursday, May 4, is the

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RE-PUBLIC

I just got an e-mail from David Levine of the CiNE Collective about a new project/paper they’ve created called RE-PUBLIC: The CiNE Collective’s Portfolio for New York’s Joseph Papp Public Theater, in which they re-conceive New York’s Public Theater “for the world you actually live