Our pals at The Butane Group, creators of The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky, are finally back with a new piece. IRAN. 1953. THE CIA’S FIRST COVERT COUP AGANST A FOREIGN DEMOCRACY. THE ULTIMATE GAMBLE. The Butane Group presents OPERATION AJAX (a game of skill and
This just in from Musical America: “Alastair Macaulay is to be the next chief dance critic of The New York Times, the newspaper announced to its staff. Macaulay, chief theater critic of the Financial Times and previously chief dance critic of The Times Literary Supplement,
Jill Sigman has a reputation. Of being smart. She graduated from Princeton and so I hear, most people know this. For example, the NYTimes said: “Jill Sigman has a prodigious imagination and intelligence…… a fearless performer who does not hesitate to expose the painful truths
Spalding Gray, one of the most revered and irreverent storytellers of our time, became an indelible image: sitting alone at a desk on a bare stage, delivering hilarious and moving monologues. But what made Grays performances so memorable and timeless was the universal way his
Less is more, right? In 9 bodies, the opening condition of D.D. Dorvilliers Nottthing Is Importanttt at The Kitchen, a group of performers (you guessed it, nine), slowly shifted angles and pulled at their baggy, grey-toned clothing to reveal various parts of their bodies. As
Last Sunday we went to do see the Glitter and Doom exhibit at the Met. It was really amazing. The work was so intense and visceral it nearly leapt off the walls. it was astonishing -to me anyway – that paints could be so emotional,
SaBooge Theatre Every Day Above Ground ★★★★★ “Watching them is pure joy.” —The Irish Times “An ensemble that inspires new respect for the craft.” —Variety This bold re-imagining of Booker Prize-winner Michael Ondaatje’s Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Brooklyn and Montreal-based ensemble SaBooge
Our friends at the 92Y Blog have launched a new feature, Tisch Music Talk, where, as you might glean, music is discussed with people who make it. You know the drill, click the link and take the ride.
Independently producing theatre in New York is no easy task, ask anyone who’s done it. When Culturebot heard that Aisling Arts was staging Force, a six-plus hour play trilogy that’s been compared to Tony Kushner’s Angels in America in terms of size and scope, we
“We need a space to build an airplane.” “An airplane?” “For the set. For the set of Wickets.” For the set of a play called Wickets they were going to build an airplane. For the set of a play called Wickets, which was really an
If you somehow missed Taylor Mac performing The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac at the Under the Radar Festival, then you’ll have to settle for the next best thing, this clip of his song “The Palace of the End.”
Sunday’s Times had a feature on three of the leading curators of the downtown dance scene: Debra Singer (the Kitchen), Vallejo Gantner (PS 122), and Carla Peterson (Dance Theatre Workshop). The piece by Gia Kourlas raises some interesting points in regards to cultivating work. Will