Tag: Theatre

  • Twitter of the Shrew

    From Orlando and Brian Feldman 0f  The Feldman Dynamic comes a new performance art theater adventure. (I have not yet had the chance to experience The Feldman Dynamic live. Hopefully, one day, I will. ) Who: Amway Shakespeare Opportunity (2009 Inaugural Season) Taking Shakespeare To The Next Level. What: Twitter of the Shrew – adapted for Twitter by @BrianFeldman from the…

  • TELEPHONE

    I went to see TELEPHONE on Tuesday night with no idea what to expect. I knew that it was an adaptation of a 1989 book by Avital Ronell – I had a vague memory of reading an essay of hers in the magazine MONDO 2000 back in the early 90’s. I remember her being in…

  • Little Theater!

    Maybe that was it!? Maybe that’s what I was doing on Monday, February 2nd?! One way or another, Little Theatre is always a good time! Now at the NEW Dixon Place!!! With twice as much betterness! *************************************************************** Little Theatre, Vol IX, No. 3 – February, 2009 SEXPERT BETSY BIXBY WHEAT a performance by Kate Valentine…

  • Orgy of Tolerance

      If you haven’t been out to Montclair’s PEAK PERFORMANCES series yet (shame on you!) but if you haven’t, this is a good reason to go. Auteur and Provocateur Jan Fabre is bringing the world premiere of his new work ORGY OF TOLERANCE. It is surprisingly easy to get out to Montclair, the tickets are…

  • Have You Heard About The Ohio?

    Rumors abound – I’ve gotten at least three emails/facebook messages that the Ohio is closing. what I hear is that the space was sold out from under them and as of the end of the year its done. though i’ve also heard that shows booked there through Feb. might be alright. everyone else is scrambling to find…

  • Early Modernism

    If you want to see an amazing and inspiring exhibit, head up to the Jewish Museum for Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater 1919-1949. From their website: In the new-found artistic freedom of the years following the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, Jewish theaters such as Habima and the Moscow State Yiddish Theater (acronym,…

  • Abrons Art Center: “Screen Test”.

    Screen Test is director and visual artist Rob Roth’s latest multi-disciplinary work, currently on show at the Lower East Side’s Abrons Art Center. The piece is a one-hour long eerie, haunting, and sometimes tickling performance that takes place in the nightmarish apocalyptic setting of a post-nuclear-holocaust scenario. It’s hard to describe exactly what happens during…

  • Beware of A Holy Whore

    for you Rainer Werner Fassbinder junkies out there, here is a FILM by the man transcribed word for word (by the diligent Doris Mirescu) for a STAGE production which will be performed in a MOVIE THEATER on 23rd Street that has been SWIPED and made into a LIVE THEATER by FILM STUDENTS who, though they…

  • extras needed for castellucci

    40 Male Extras are needed for Romeo Castellucci’s “Hey Girl!” at the Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair, NJ. and they are currently short of that goal! They are offering a stipend of $50 a person for the opportunity to be in a production of one of the superstars of the contemporary european theatre scene! –…

  • happy days are here again

    okay – time to play a little bit of catch-up: Last Wednesday we went to see Fiona Shaw in Deborah Warner’s staging of Happy Days at BAM. Fantastic!  Though I imagine I must have seen one of their more recent collaborations, still I was reminded of their stunning staging of The Waste Land in 1996.…