I spent the two hours after leaving Honeyland thinking about how it could be rewritten into a passable show. It was a frustrating task. What should one do with a musical whose surface goe…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:24PMThe ‘Cellino v. Barnes’ play ads have been almost as inescapable as their real-life inspirations in recent months. Facebook and Instagram have become virtual billboards with plastered…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:06PMFew things make you feel as lucky to live in New York as being around artists at the beginning of their careers. This is certainly the case with ELEGIE, a nascent theater company founded thi…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:24PMMatthew Freeman, like most New York City creatives, has a day job. The award-winning playwright, who premiered his latest play, The Ask, in early September, spends his time out of the theate…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:32PMThe audience sits on sand while an artist simulates giving birth. Each one of their limbs dunked in a separate bucket of water, jutted in a prone crabwalk position, they declare that it is n…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:54PMYou – just you – walk into an empty space. The only thing visible is a note with a phone number on it, and when the voice on the other line picks up, it asks you to acknowledge that you …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:00AMThe Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, based out of a loft in Greenpoint, is known for shows that tread the line of intellectualism and indulgence. Playwright and director Matthew Gasd…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:24PMMur shows up at the Murray Hill coffee shop in an outfit streaked with multicolored paint and a gift for me still drying in their hand. The performance artist is best known for their musi…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:36AMFor young women on social media and the real world alike, girlhood has become somewhat trendy in recent months. Apprehensive of adulthood, increasing numbers of individuals have clung to the…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:02PMThe audience, a group of ten people padding along in their socks, line up silently along the back wall. The glowing outline of a circle appears on the floor. Someone is brave enough to step …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:36PMThe president of the United States sits in a wheelchair commode, speaking in a synthesized voice. A man in a lab coat and rat ears stands at a screen designed to look like a cardboard box. A…
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