Month: April 2008

  • moving on

    Albert Hofmann, father of LSD, dies at 102. Read the obit in the Times. (Also, avant-garde composer Henry Brant, who I’d never heard of but who sounds fascinating)

  • PEN World Voices

    It started yesterday.  I’m behind. But there’s great stuff going on all over the city as part of the PEN World Voices Festival.

  • P73 blog

    It’s like every day I find a new blog that I feel like I should have known about for a long time!

  • Britney, parsed.

    Reading this made me feel bad for Britney Spears, for the first time. Since I was already pretty much an adult by the time “that which we call Britney” came into being, and since I was always more of an indie/alternative-type guy, I always found her kind of amusing and pathetic. But reading interpreted world‘s…

  • Unique Theatrical Experience

    The Drama Desk Nominees were announced.  As usual, most of the people we know were in the “unique theatrical experience” category: Unique Theatrical Experience: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Cut to the Chase Fabrik The 39 Steps Traces

  • American Theatre Wing Online

    If you haven’t checked out the American Theatre Wing website (www.americantheatrewing.org) you should. Then you won’t have to ask yourself  “Why didn’t I know about this site?” when you finally do find it! Its got lots o’ good stuff!! Check it out.

  • Vote Debs in 2008!

    I know absolutely nothing about this production or this company, but I’m a big fan of political campaigns as performance art (I *did* run for mayor after all!). Plus, a company that is also doing a show about “pegging” can hardly be all bad! So here’s the info: VOTE DEBS IN ’08 www.packofothers.org/votedebs A 2008…

  • Force Majeure

    Chez Bushwick Presents FORCE MAJEURE: Microsystéme (A Studio Showing Of New Work) GENOA/US Microsystéme Artistic Director: Victor Gauthier-Martin (Based On Genoa 01 By Fausto Paravidino) Guests are cordially invited to view the creative process of a staged rehearsal for GENOA / US, as part of the serial project directed by French Director Victor Gaulthier-Martin/Microsystéme, conceived…

  • The Bard in Bushwick and other Theatrical Adventures

    So first off I have been a little behind in posting on what I’ve been seeing. I saw The Walworth Farce at St. Ann’s, which was really fantastic. It really makes you wonder how people can sit through predictable, boring, conventional Irish plays like Seafarer. Enda Walsh’s claustrophobic and unrelenting tale of an extremely dysfunctional…

  • Call for proposals – Residency/Production at NYCCT

    This just in. Looks like it could be an amazing opportunity for artists working with performance and technology. And I may be reading too much into it but it looks like they’re offering FREE LABOR if you are able to teach the undergrads about integrating tech and performance. This could be your chance to make…

  • Dance at BRICstudio

    Andrew Nemr & CPD PLUS: Music of the Spheres Thursday & Saturday April 24 and 26, 8:00pm This dazzling ensemble of young hoofers led by Andrew Nemr takes a high-energy and high-concept crack at “Gershwin Piano Prelude No. 1,” re-envisioning an a cappella arrangement of the composition with a dancer assuming each vocal role and…

  • le poisson rouge

    so the other day I was down in ye olde greenwich village and i saw this new place opening up in that space on bleecker that is always either a theater or a nightclub and is always changing hands. so i signed up for their email list. this could either be way cool or way…