Category: Events

  • Big Art Group to take over Abrons

    To celebrate 10 years of innovative work, Big Art Group takes over all three Abrons Art Center performance spaces with projects past, present, and future. Click here for more information.

  • A Benefit for Haitian Earthquake Relief at St. Mark's Church

    A Celebration of Haitian Culture: Benefit for Earthquake Relief Sunday, March 14, 2010 | 6:30PM Please join the Poetry Project, Danspace Project, Ontological-Hysteric Theater and St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery for a celebration of Haitian culture. All proceeds from the evening will be donated to Partners in Health: Stand With Haiti. Tickets are now available,…

  • Fresh Tracks at DTW

    Put on my wellies and slogged through the slushfest last night to attend Dance Theater Workshop’s “Fresh Tracks” benefit.  It was well worth it. If this particular program (for this 45-year old series) is an accurate barometer of our current artistic atmosphere, I’d forecast rich days ahead for dance.  I’ll admit, despite being a loyal…

  • DTW Lobby Talk: The Relevance of the University, Part 2

    I’m moderating a follow up to last year’s “Relevance of the University” Lobby Talk. It’s this Tuesday, 7:30 at Dance Theater Workshop – 219 W. 19th St. Panelists include Juliana May, David Neumann, Jana Feinman, Gerald Casel, and hopefully… Susan Marshall. Lobby Talks are more round table than panel, so come and plan to join…

  • The 25 Cent Opera of San Francisco – a new series

    the PLAYWRITING FIRM is pleased to announce the TWENTY-FIVE CENT OPERA of SAN FRANCISCO theater – performance – entertainments last SUNDAY every MONTH 7:00 pm  ~   $7 suggested donation BARBES 376 9th St., Bkln this month FEB 28 plays & texts from BROOKLYN & TOKYO by landscape artist ERIN COURTNEY theater architect YELENA GLUZMAN & word construction…

  • "Revolving Twilight" and Abby Man-Yee Chan at The Chocolate Factory

    Last night, video installation artists Lauren Petty and Shaun Irons bid farewell to their multi-channel video and sound installation at The Chocolate Factory with a live performance by NYC/HK dance artist, Abby Man-Yee Chan .  “Revolving Twilight” has been in the basement of the LIC theater since early December and was extended until last night. …

  • Play: A Journal of Plays

    Sally Oswald and Jordan Harrison are launching Issue #4 of the independent journal PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS. Since 2003, Oswald and Harrison have devoted their off-hours to the life of plays on the page, offering a home in print for innovative, graphically adventurous, and otherwise “impractical” works. The Journal has become a darling of…

  • Penny Arcade's BAD REPUTATION at Le Poisson Rouge

    The list of performers confirmed for tonight’s celebration of the the publication of “Penny Arcade: Bad Reputation” is stunning in its breadth… Blondie’s DEBBIE HARRY; author and activist SARAH SCHULMAN; club diva and Billboard recording artist KEVIN AVIANCE; co-founder of the legendary Living Theatre JUDITH MALINA; performance artist, singer/songwriter (and Faux-ni Mitchell) JOHN KELLY; performance…

  • Fusebox Festival 2010 Line-Up (So Far)

    WHEN: April 21- May 1, 2010 WHERE: 10+ venues throughout Austin, TX COST: $130 Passes WEB: www.fuseboxfestival.com “There will probably be a few more additions of note, but this is about 80%.” -Ron Berry, Founder and Artistic Director of Fusebox Festival At the end of the announcement party at east Austin’s Okay Mountain art gallery…

  • EXPERIMENTS and DISORDERS

    Dixon Place presents EXPERIMENTS and DISORDERS curated by Tom Cole and Christen Clifford featuring Stephen Elliot, Lucy Sexton and Lia Gangitano Tues, January 19 7:30 pm $6 161A Chrystie Street (212) 219-0736 (F,V to 2nd Ave) In Dixon Place’s long running experimental reading series, novelist and memoirist Stephen Elliot (The Adderall Diaries -called “Genius” by…

  • Dublin Fringe Festival Applications Now Open

    Dublin Fringe Festival is now accepting submissions for the 2010 edition of Absolut Fringe, running from 11-26 September. For two weeks in September Dublin will be captivated by theatre, dance, music, visual art, live art and street performance from Ireland and around the globe. We invite you to join us in making it happen. Click…

  • Benefit for Tuli Kupferberg

    Tuli Kupferberg, the influential songwriter who co-founded the Fugs, suffered two strokes, in April and September 2009, which left him blind, confined to his apartment and in need of 24-hour care. He is recovering well—he is able to speak clearly—but has overwhelming medical expenses not covered by Medicare or the very modest publishing/royalties income he…