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Shakespeare Lab 2007
Apply Today for The Public Theater’s SHAKESPEARE LAB 2007! Application materials due Monday, April 2! The highly acclaimed Shakespeare Lab actor training program is now accepting applications for its 13-week
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Fraudulent Theater
Edina: “It’s a dead body, Pats.” Patsy: “Yeah, but is it art, Eddie?” We use the above quote from Absolutely Fabulous as an entry point to an intriguing and well-thought
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Not Your Average Talking Head
This evening brings another installment of Talk/Show to Joe’s Pub, hosted by inimitable raconteur Justin Bond (“Kiki” of Kiki and Herb). Bond will lead tonight’s guests, including director John Cameron
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art-tastic weekend
Under the influence of my visual artist friend visiting for the CAA conference I saw a bunch of art shows this weekend. Really interesting stuff. It was nice to get
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Ohad Naharin’s GAGA
When people talk about Israeli dance, it is impossible not to talk about Ohad Naharin and Batsheva Dance Company. well, cedar lake is offering a class in GAGA, Ohad Naharin’s
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CAA in the House
As if APAP weren’t enough…this weekend has been the 95th Annual Conference for the College Art Association! One of my oldest and best pals (from back in the day in
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Operation Ajax
Our pals at The Butane Group, creators of The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky, are finally back with a new piece. IRAN. 1953. THE CIA’S FIRST COVERT COUP AGANST A FOREIGN
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New Chief Dance Critic at NY TIMES
This just in from Musical America: “Alastair Macaulay is to be the next chief dance critic of The New York Times, the newspaper announced to its staff. Macaulay, chief theater
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Let’s Have A Meltdown!
On February 26th The Moth is having a story slam at The Bitter End. This theme is near and dear to my heart: Meltdowns. The promo says: “Share your story
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Reflecting on the thinking person’s choreographer
Jill Sigman has a reputation. Of being smart. She graduated from Princeton and so I hear, most people know this. For example, the NYTimes said: “Jill Sigman has a prodigious
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Shades of Gray
Spalding Gray, one of the most revered and irreverent storytellers of our time, became an indelible image: sitting alone at a desk on a bare stage, delivering hilarious and moving
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Nottthing’s Plenty for D.D.
Less is more, right? In 9 bodies, the opening condition of D.D. Dorvilliers Nottthing Is Importanttt at The Kitchen, a group of performers (you guessed it, nine), slowly shifted angles
