From Gameboy Music Battles to Gay Wedding Rock Rallies to Blasphemous Jesus Performance Art, Culturebot has been very, very busy. He is much, much too busy to actually write up all the things he has been going to see and do. Therefore, here’s a list
This just in: Under the full moon on Tuesday May 4, beloved performance legend Tom Murrin will present a version of his notorious Full Moon shows, in unprecedented fashion. this is to be a double feature, and a combative one at that. Billed as Alien
I was reading my weekly Flavorpill and I read a listing for a new show by Melanie Hoopes called Weight. Melanie conducted over fifty interviews to create a one-woman show that focuses on the lives of women suffering from eating disorders. Intrigued, I gave Melanie
Deb Margolin is a playwright, performance artist, founding member of the Split Britches theater company, Obie Award winner, professor and mother. I had the opportunity to speak with her after a preview performance of her play Three Seconds in the Key, which is based on
Maybe I’m the last to notice, but they re-did the theater section of the online version of the NY Times! Wow. And they’ve added these “critics picks” sections with profiles of some of the critics. They also have a review up there of Deb Margolin’s
For an ass accustomed to the broken folding chairs and an eye trained for the brackish dust boxes of downtown theater, the opulence of my surroundings was a little overwhelming. Everywhere, well-heeled young spectators sunk into luxurious brocade sofas. High picture windows boasted pale, flounced
Earlier this evening I went to the memorial service for Spalding Gray, which was alternately moving, uplifting, insightful and funny.
Back in 1990 then-chairman of the NEA, John Frohnmayer, denied grants to performance artists Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes and Tim Miller on the grounds that their work was indecent. They took the case to the Supreme Court and won, initially, having their grants
Two recent, ambitious performances have contemporary theater groups wrestling with the legacies of legends gone by. The Wooster Group’s Poor Theater tackles Grotowski and Human Future Dance Corps’ Coming Out of the Night With Names engages their history with Reza Abdoh. In this essay, actor/writer
On Wednesday, April 14th we will have the latest edition of the WYSIWYG Talent Show, the monthly all-blogger series of readings and performances. This edition is called “The Dope Show” and is stories of drugs (sex & rock’n’roll optional). Featuring: Ned Vizzini (NedVizzini.com), the author
There will be a memorial for Spalding Gray on April 13th at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center. John Perry Barlow has posted the details here. He also has several posts on his blog about Spalding and lots of comments from readers from all
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