Tag: Upcoming

  • heads up: Gatz @ EMPAC

    Elevator Repair Service is taking Gatz, its legendary production of the entire text of The Great Gatsby, up to the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytech for the weekend of Nov. 22 and 23. This is the show that they’re still famously banned from performing in NYC, thanks to the estate of…

  • i know this much is true

    I’ve heard that this show is absolutely spectacular!   true Takayuki Fujimoto (dumb type) x Takao Kawaguchi (dumb type) x Tsuyoshi Shirai     “[true] reminds us of the overwhelming sense of living in contemporary society.”  Asahi Newspaper How do we really know what is true? Welcome to the surreal world of true, where our assumptions about time,…

  • The Home By Josephine

    Not sure what to expect but Abby comes from good stock (Witness Relocation, ETW and Catch!) – check it out and let me know how it goes! (I will be out of town, unforunately…) THE PERFORMANCE PROJECT @ UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT PRESENTS THE HOME BY JOSEPHINE a virtual house-tour with pictures and songs CREATED & PERFORMED…

  • Aurelia’s Oratorio

    I am very bummed that I am going to miss this. I met Aurelia the other evening and I hear she is as talented as she is lovely. NYU Skirball Center’s most astonishing event of the season: Aurélia’s Oratorio     Starring Aurélia Thierrée Conceived and Directed by Victoria Thierrée Chaplin and featuring Julio Monge…

  • Darmstadt at IPR

      From my friend Nick: Zach Layton and I present our first DARMSTADT festival this week at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM in Brooklyn, entitled ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE. Over the course of six concerts beginning tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, we present a loose survey of our favorite composers hailing from New York’s experimental continuum: John Cage and Morton Feldman…

  • Jo Stromgren Kompani at Abrons

    Here is the NY TIMES review. Okay – so trust me – this is not b/c I’m pimping for PS or for Abrons. This is because I think Jo Stromgren is the friggin’ shit. I have seen The Convent, The Hospital, The Department and The European Lesson. I have seen them in Philadelphia, Groningen and…

  • Andy’s Haunted Birthday & Benefit Party

    I don’t know, maybe it is the high-stakes election, maybe it is the fact that Judith Malina is still blowing people’s minds advocating for the beautiful anarchist revolution and Paradise Now! after all these years (I need to go see that show!!) maybe it is the mix of terror, frustration, futility, fatalism and schadenfreude that…

  • Lobby Talks at DTW

    Should be interesting: The (non) narrative use of language, voice and sound in performance Tuesday, Oct 14 at 7:30pm at DTW Organized by Chase Granoff This conversation will explore the interest of spoken language and verbal sound in contemporary performance. We will discuss the narrative vs. non-narrative, and the tangible vs. the abstract. How does…

  • Perverted By Theater (Prelude ’08 Through The Lookingglass)

    Perverted by Theater curated by Franklin Evans and Paul David Young October 22 – December 6, 2008 Opening reception: Wednesday, October 22, 6-8 pm at Apexart With works by Laylah Ali, Mel Bochner, Luis Camnitzer, Kabir Carter, Ele d’Artagnan, William Daniels, David Dupuis, Igor Eskinja, Jackie Gendel, Trajal Harrell, Elana Herzog, David Humphrey, Ross Knight,…

  • The Return of Les Freres Corbusier

    LES FRERES is back and ready to kick your ass! And its not just because I was in HELL HOUSE – it’s because they’re one of my fave companies – irreverent, intelligent and lots ‘o fun. The company that created Hell House, Boozy, Heddatron, and A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant returns with a…

  • To Be Straight With You

    A few years ago former-DV8 performer Liam Steel and his company Stan Won’t Dance brought their show Sinner to NYC which John Rockwell called “British physical theater at its finest” in the NY Times.  Well, now we get to see the source of this intense, physical theater when DV8 comes to Montclair this weekend. Don’t…

  • IT Awards Monday

     Lisa Kron has been chosen to host the 2008 New York Innovative Theatre Awards (the IT Awards), in a ceremony dedicated to celebrating Off-Off-Broadway. There will be entertainment interludes performed by New York’s own Blue Man Group.   The IT Awards will be held this Monday, September 22, 2008 at FIT’s Haft Auditorium. The Haft Auditorium is located in…