Tag: Young Jean Lee

  • Culturebot’s Weekend Plans: April 1, 2011

    Horror, death, horror, degenerate art, and some guy name Buridan’s ass: a weekend of shows from Culturebot’s intrepid reporters

  • The Digest: March 9, 2011

    Isaac Butler on narrative, Belarus Free Theater returns to New York, Fusebox Fest announces line-up, and a dance critic admits she can be shallow (and feels terrible for it)

  • One-Week Sale at OntheBoards.tv

    OtBTV turns one-year-old, with a one-week-only $1 sale.

  • Whither the Political Theatre?

    South African playwright Athol Fugard has excoriated his fellow playwrights in Britain and America for failing to maintain the tradition of politically engaged theatre. But maybe the problem is that playwrights already agree with him and are trying to follow in his footsteps–only, that mode of political theatre just doesn’t matter anymore.

  • Young Jean Lee's LEAR

    Just got back from an outing to see Young Jean Lee’s LEAR at Soho Rep with Claudia L. and WNYC‘s Performance Club. It was really great to see the show with a group of people and then have such in-depth conversation afterwards. There was quite a diversity of opinion about the show which is, in…

  • Five Questions for: Caleb Hammons

    Name: Caleb Hammons Title/Occupation: Producing Director Organization/Company: Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company URL: www.youngjeanlee.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in a small town (population: 3,000) at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky.  Somehow I ended up at NYU/Tisch’s Experimental Theater…

  • AUDITION for KING LEAR

    OBIE Award-winning, internationally touring Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company will be holding auditions for a new show, KING LEAR, written and directed by Young Jean Lee (THE SHIPMENT, CHURCH, SONGS OF THE DRAGON FLYING TO HEAVEN), which will premiere at Soho Rep (BLASTED, NO DICE) in January 2010. These are exploratory auditions for a workshop…

  • the shipment and some loose ends

    Last night i finally got to see the latest version of Young Jean Lee’s THE SHIPMENT at The Kitchen. I thought it was fantastic. I had seen an earlier version and knew basically what to expect, but I was really impressed nonetheless. In some ways this might be Young Jean’s strongest show to date. She…