The Under the Radar Festival is officially underway, with a plethora of performances to shake up a dull New York January. UTR is akin to putting new works on shuffle, offering a global mix of everything from solo pieces to puppetry, all with a “downtown”
Editor and theatre critic David Cote recently profiled Eric Dyer, Maggie Hoffman and Erin Douglass of Radiohole, who are remounting their show Fluke, for an article in Time Out New York. Expecting to walk into an orgy of sex, drugs, and punkish texts, he was
Avant-garde theater company Mabou Mines will be participating in the Sundance Lab at White Oak this month. The Lab, an extension of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program’s summer lab, is focused on ensemble-created work and innovative musical theatre. According to Playbill: Mabou Mines’ Song for
The newly redesigned website for TDF is now live, with fellow blogger Rob Kendt (The Wicked Stage) ensconced as the Editorial Content Manager. The site has plenty of resources for both theatregoers and theatre producers. Check it out at TDF.org
Lo, the angel Susan Sontag appeared, and she had a knock-down, drag-out fight with the Devil, and it was good. For my first field report of the New Year for Culturebot, I attended the opening of The Rapture Project at HERE, created by the award-winning
Bryn over at Aisling Arts just sent up a flare to alert us that she’s seeking some tech help for Force, a cycle of plays running in rep at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City. Below is a list of the tech and performance
Lest you think the theatre blogosphere is all highbrow discussions and heated aesthetic debates, we bring you this poll from What’s Good/What Blows, where you can vote for the worst bathrooms Off-Broadway(via The Playgoer). The poll doesn’t include a lot of small downtown spaces, many
Culturebot recently reported a rumor that the Culture Project may be on its way out. According to The New York Timesthe 10-year-old nonprofit is just relocating, not folding. According to Campbell Robertson: The reason for the move surprise, surprise is rent. At its
What are you doing tonight? Tomorrow? Friday? Saturday? Sunday? Do yourself a favor, put the TV remote down, stop googling your ex-girlfriend and pony up the $15 to see Polybe and Seats’ new play The Charlotte Salomon Project: Life? Or Theater? at the rockin’ Brooklyn
Culturebot should probably not admit this, but he had never seen Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck before. Oh sure, he read it in college and knew the basics – story of a soldier, ahead-of-its-time, first play from the perspective of the common man, harbinger of the modern
The Thursday Problem in association with Working Man’s Clothes is seeking scripts for an upcoming production called, ahem, Fuckplays. About the project: From American Apparel ads to Sex and the City, we live in a dream world of constant fucking and endless possibilities. But in
Oh just a random note. A friend took me to see Grey Gardens on Tuesday night and I’ve gotta say I really liked it. But maybe it was just being dazzled by all the pretty lights and the elaborate set and all the bells &