Miller vs. Miller: A Battle For the Stage
There are two Arthur Millers. One is a great playwright, the other is not.
Arab Women Performance Night
One of my favorite events newsletters is Tom Tenney’s Toxic Pop. He always finds cool performance-y stuff to do in NYC. In this week’s edition, he has a listing for Arab Women Performance Night at the Alwan Center. Looks interesting, enlightening and challenging. Click through
Greetings from Ho-Land, Part One
(Everybody’s favorite Culturebot contributor Rachel Shukert is spending the next 2-3 months in Amsterdam. This is the first of a series of reports from Old Europe) Well, its been a week and Im starting to feel pretty much at home again in my erratically adopted
They can’t handle the truth?
An article in Playbill, by way of ArtsJournal, announces the stepping-down of Margo Jefferson as the Times’s second-string theatre critic. “Producers and artists widely objected to what they perceived as the patronizing, professorial tone of her reviews, which often began with lofty pronouncements on the
HT Make Civil Disobedience Fun
A communique from Hieronymous BANG, via High Times. Heh-heh.
Open Call
No, its not a casting call, its a play reading for the smart set. OPEN CALL (a staged reading) A play about theater trash. Written by Jim Strahs Directed by Young Jean Lee With: Thomas Bradshaw, Eric Dyer, Jesse Hawley, Aimee McCormick, Rollo Royce, Kate
Talking to Nick Philippou and Todd Cerveris
A lovely battlefield pieta cannot happen on its own somebody must pose the bodies. (The Booth Variations) So says Civil War photographer Matthew Brady to Edwin Booth, brother of the infamous presidential assassin, in The Booth Variations. Bradys images of Civil War battlefields and public
Talking to THAW’s Sophia Skiles
On Tuesday, July 27th, THAW celebrates the one-year anniversary of its Freedom Follies at HERE Arts Center. THAW, or Theaters Against War, is a quickly growing network dedicated to organizing, informing and promoting artists who believe in pro-peace foreign and domestic policies, and includes theatres
Rock Me Dr. Zaius
So I was in the middle of writing this really, really in-depth and cogent article about how the Fringe Festival isn’t really all that “fringe-y” and has pretty much jumped the shark. I mean it was a really, really good essay. And then I got
Where the Hell?
Wow, its even easier to get to than BAM! is the comment artistic director Michael Gardner hears most when people talk about his venue, Williamsburgs Brick Theater. We should make that our slogan: Wow its even easier to get to than BAM! Formerly an auto-body
destination new nation
newnation july twenty fourth two thousand and four six pm through six am twelve hours of performance, music, video and installations in DUMBO.
Cathy Hannan
While The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and Charles Phoenix have created a new-found awareness of “found slide” art projects, Cathy Hannan has been quietly and surreptiously making her humorous and surreal found-slide presentations for nearly 15 years. In the past year she has started The