Sounding at HERE opens Feb 17

HERE proudly brings to life Sounding, a new seven-character multi-media play driven by original text and lyrics, along with cinematic video and a unique soundscape influenced by the music of Patti Smith, Bartok and Portishead.  Written by Jennifer Gibbs and directed by Kristin Marting, this production runs Wednesday, February 17 – Saturday, March 13 on HERE’s MainStage.
Sounding follows the [...]

Save the Date for WOW+FLUTTER

Andrew Schneider
WOW+FLUTTER
February 25-27, 2010
Thursday – Saturday at 8PM
@ The Chocolate Factory
5-49 49th Avenue, Long Island City, NYC 11101
The Chocolate Factory begins its Spring 2010 Season with WOW+FLUTTER, a new solo performance by Andrew Schneider. Schneider uses the body as a physical playback device of recorded media. Using custom-built wearable electronics, subsonic sound scores, interactive [...]

Save the Date for Three Pianos

Hoi Polloi
Three Pianos
Written and Performed by Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy and Dave Malloy
Directed by Rachel Chavkin
February 25—March 20, 2010
Performed everyday except Mondays and Wednesdays at 8p.m.
At The Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church • 131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Ave.)

Three Pianos is a theatrical explosion of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise song cycle [...]

Magical Myopia

It was cold last night and as I wound my way downstairs and downstairs and down into the Atlantic Theater’s Second Stage I didn’t know what to expect. I had heard great things but, you know, you never know, so now I know. I know I’m late to the party, but better late than never. [...]

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 [...]

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 it hit me how amusing a [...]

Mabou Mines at NYTW

Once upon a time in NYC there was a land called bohemia, in a world called counterculture where the inhabitants played at a game called avant garde. Take a trip in the wayback machine and visit this surreal wonderland via Mabou Mines’ Pataphysics Penyeach:Summa Dramatica & Porco Morto playing January 13-31, 2010 at New York [...]

HERE Culturemart 2010

Was just checking out videos on HERE’s YouTube Channel – lots of interesting stuff.  There annual Culturemart festival just started and it is a great chance to see some really cool work. Check out the line-up here. And here’s a promo video for their multimedia track:

Trifles at the Ontological

A little heads-up to mark your calendar for The Theater of a Two-Headed Calf’s Trifles that will run January 28—February 14, 2010 at The Ontological.
The Theater of a Two-Headed Calf tackles the quiet but transgressive unfolding of Trifles, the 1916 one-act by Susan Glaspell set at the scene of a bizarre murder in the [...]

hotINK 2010

Now in its ninth year, Tisch School of the Arts hotINK 2010 International Festival of Play Readings is a FREE festival of play readings from around the world. hotINK brings distinguished playwrights, directors and actors from the professional theatre community together with students and alumni of the Tisch School of the Arts to present new [...]