Tag: Philadelphia

  • Philadelphia Live Arts: FREEDOM CLUB

    John Wilkes Booth is quite the man about town these days—or about the theater, and in two towns, really. Luigi Creatore’s An Error of the Moon, about John and his brother Edwin, plays through October 10 at the Beckett Theater in New York, directed by Kim Weild. Meanwhile, John and the unfortunate Abraham Lincoln are…

  • Philadelphia Live Arts: Charlotte Ford’s CHICKEN

    There are no chickens anywhere on the superbly decorated submarine on which Charlotte Ford’s CHICKEN takes place—no real chickens, and no metaphorical ones, either. Lauren Dubowski reviews the show.

  • Opening Tonight: The 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe

    As a preview, Lauren Dubowski talks with the Festival’s Producing Director, Nick Stuccio, about what’s new and exciting in the Live Arts this year.

  • Planting Where They Bloomed: Headlong, Pig Iron, and Performance Training in Philadelphia

    With the Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe just around the corner, Culturebot contributor Lauren Dubowski talks with Headlong and Pig Iron about the growth of performance training initiatives in Philadelphia. (Photo: Audience and faculty look on at an HPI Open Salon showing.)

  • Five Questions for Reg Flowers

    Grow up is such a relative term. I’m sure this questions gets lots of creative answers.

  • …and the Eagles don’t suck, either.

    The current mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, is making some smart decisions in his approach to arts policy in his city. For one, he re-opened the Office of Arts and Culture just after taking office (former mayor John Street – yeah, the guy whose team was so corrupt the FBI bugged his office – closed…

  • Soho to L.I.C. to Philly and Back Again

    [I’m tired, I’ll try and add links later!] Okay so Wednesday I headed down to HERE ARTS CENTER to see OH WHAT WAR, Mallory Catlett & Co.’s new multimedia meditation on war from the doughboy’s perspective. The set looks like a WWI trench populated by the ghosts of deserters from every army – purgatory of…

  • Philly Weekend Two

    This is a quick trip. Last night I got into town and saw Jerome Bel’s Pichet Klunchun and Myself which I didn’t get to see in NYC. It was just a wonderful and everyone said, really fantastic. And it was in a relatively intimate space so it felt very immediate and personal. Then I raced…

  • Philly Live Arts – Week One

    Friday I headed down to Philly to see a few shows at the Live Arts festival. I’m feeling kinda lazy on this  Monday holiday, so forgive the lack of linkage. You’ll have to use a little more of your google-y skills. First up was Sweet By-and-By, a collaboration between Pig Iron Theatre and Teater Slava.…