Tag: Festivals

  • Now Festival at REDCAT

    and for all our west coast readers, may we suggest: NEW ORIGINAL WORKS FESTIVAL 2008 The fifth annual NOW Festival features nine projects by artists working throughout the Los Angeles region in dance, theater, music and hybrid performance works. For three weeks beginning in July, these artists take the REDCAT stage to bend traditions, investigate…

  • Philadelphia Fever

    I just got some tickets to go see some shows at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. It is going to be a good time! You can keep up to date on the goings-on in Philly via their blog. A bunch of the shows have already been in NYC (rotozaza’s etiquette, two shows from jerome bel)…

  • ICE FACTORY 08

    Oh man oh man…. Ice Factory this year looks like its gonna rock hard!!! from the press release: SOHO THINK TANK’S OBIE AWARD WINNING ICE FACTORY ‘08 CELEBRATES 15 YEARS OF BLAZING THE TRAIL FOR NEW YORK’S SUMMER FESTIVAL SCENE WITH 7 NY PREMIERES (June 23, 2008) New York, NY – Artistic Director Robert Lyons…

  • 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.

  • Fusebox 08

    Its like, everyone is going to Austin but me! Goldangit!!! I wish I wasn’t totally broke. (Oh and the IRS totally punched me in the face this year. I’m so glad I’m paying my fair share of taxes to support a completely unjust war, bail out Bear Sterns and prop up the waning days of…

  • PRELUDE on Facebook

    The Prelude Festival – which I co-curate with Geoffrey Scott from NYTW and Frank Hentschker, director of programs at MESTC/CUNY – has a group on Facebook. Check it out! Join the group and keep us posted on what you’re up to, we’ll do the same. We’ve started meeting to discuss Prelude ’08 in September!

  • frigidfest 2008

    Mark your calendars now for the 2nd Annual Frigid Festival, brought to you by Horse Trade (the folks who run The Kraine, the Red Room and Under St. Mark’s) and EXIT Theatre (founders of the SF Fringe Festival). It runs from February 27-March 9, 2008. What makes Frigid different from other festivals is that the…

  • Under The Radar

    well the old culturebot inbox is starting to get filled up with all the different press releases for all the various shows in Under The Radar. And its understandable, since the line-up is really strong. Young Jean Lee, Jay Scheib, Reggie Watts, Mike Daisey, Superamas…. zowie. And of course, we’re very much looking forward to…

  • blipfest

    THE BLIP FESTIVAL 2007 THURSDAY NOV 29TH – SUNDAY DEC 2ND. EYEBEAM – 540 WEST 21ST STREET (BTWN 10TH AND 11TH AVES) www.blipfestival.org The BLIP  FESTIVAL 2007 is a four-day music and multimedia event, focusing on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and home computer technology and featuring 40 musicians and visualists from…

  • Heads up

    …. for some upcoming-not-to-miss events. Tickets on sale now for BAM’s incredible season opening with The Seagull by the Royal Shakespeare Company, towards the end Batsheva Dance Company will be returning with “three” ….. their tickets will probably sell out, so hop on it! Tickets will be on sale Saturday for the now well-established Fall…

  • Philadelphia Fever

    Closer to home – and sooner – is the Philly Live Arts festival. It starts August 31 and will feature lots of great work including ERS’ Gatz, The Wooster Group’s Emperor Jones and work from The Riot Group, Pig Iron, Lucidity Suitcase, New Paradise Laboratories, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Young Jean Lee, Cynthia Hopkins and…

  • Ice Factory 2007

    Well we just got the press release for the Soho Think Tank‘s Ice FactoryFestival 2007. Every summer we look forward to seeing some great work down at the Ohio and this summer is no different. It looks like a great line-up. We’re particularly excited to see that Bushwick Hotel will be debuting a new piece…