Essays – Culturebot

The Alchemy of Small Groups (Part 6 of 6)

If the human world is organized in small groups, what are the qualities and conditions that make small groups work best?

The World In Small Groups

Once you notice it, you can’t stop seeing it – the world organized in small groups. Why? What makes small group experiences uniquely powerful?

Worst Sex Ever and the WYSIWYG Talent Show, or Tales from Blogland

In 2004, nearly 300 NYC bloggers and their readers came together IRL for the first time to meet each other, drink and try to hook up. What does it mean when online communities gather in person? The 4th in a series of essays about live events and small group experiences.

From Black Box to Broadway

Daniel Fish’s “Oklahoma!” in Los Angeles, Taylor Mac, Kiki and Herb and other tales of “Black Box to Broadway”. Essay #3 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.

From Storefront to Stadium

That time I saw Nirvana in 1991. Or, what happens to an artist and their music on the journey from small clubs to stadiums and how are these experiences different? Essay #2 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.

Satori in a Storefront

That time I saw Kristen Kosmas in 1992 and it blew my mind. The first in a series of essays about the power of live performance in small rooms.

Pulling Back the Curtain on Caborca Theatre’s ZOETROPE

the beauty of the play is that things get really weird, really fast at times, but always go back to the tune

The Theater(s)We Need Now

Okay. I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now – and I didn’t even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds – but I know how things are, I know what life is like, I know everybody’s busy so

Under the Radar Festival Gets Shown the Door By the Public

On the ambivalent legacy of January’s premier festival

Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” Offers Up Complex Women and Self-Criticism in a Quasi-Solipsistic Depiction of the 60s

There are those cultural events that feel too good to be true – many stars align to create a perfectly satisfying contribution, almost all-encompassing in its thoughtoutness.