Friday, December 2, 2011
Paul Lazar and Annie-B nail it with a re-imagining of Euripide's "Alcestis" that counts among the best Next Wave has offer this year
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:39AMWednesday, November 30, 2011
A group of young dance-makers displays some incredible movement talent, but even in an environment designed to promote risk-taking, only a few seemed to push their boundaries
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:53PMOur too-much-to-do list includes Peter Jacobs' new show at the Chocolate Factory, a play about sex with comatose women directed by Lee Breuer, and more
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:55PMTuesday, November 22, 2011
Michael Kaiser has been rightly ran through the ringer, but in this brave new democratically discursive world, what happens to art?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:10PMThursday, November 17, 2011
The talented choreographer's newest work, at BAM's Next Wave Fest, starts with a lot of promise, but then seems to lose its way before an unsatisfying end
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:00PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Sesquipedal performer and Culturebot contributor Mashinka Firunts returns to New York with Semiospectacle this weekend
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:11PMMichael Kaiser laments that cultural elites can't put a ticket-buying fear of ignorance into the masses anymore
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:55PMMonday, November 14, 2011
Get the word on what's at the 2012 COIL, Under the Radar, and American Realness Festivals
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:26PMThursday, November 10, 2011
The Paris-based actor whose "Art of Laughter" played Crossing the Line this year returns to BAC in a lauded collection of Beckett shorts
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:33PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
The director's 1985 dance-theater piece stays true to its aesthetic roots, adding a humanistic sci-fi twist to a story of materialism and spirituality
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:09PMChoreographer Emily Johnson and musical collaborator James Everest talk about "The Thank-you Bar" at NYLA this week
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:24PMThursday, November 3, 2011
Choreographer Young Soon Kim of White Wave Dance Co. works hard to provide opportunities to emerging dance talent; I caught one part of her showcase series Wave Rising
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:58PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
Irish director Gavin Quinn of Pan Pan Theatre talks about "The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane," coming to the New York this month
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:37PMTuesday, November 1, 2011
A nearly 30-year-old masterpiece by director Ping Chong opens La MaMa's anniversary season
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:59PMMonday, October 31, 2011
A pair of fellow theater bloggers offer their personal perspectives on upcoming works at the 2011 Next Wave Fest
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:48AMFriday, October 28, 2011
Ivo van Hove's "Cries and Whispers" and William Forsythe's "I don't believe in outer space" are the first can't-miss shows of Next Wave
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:22PMThursday, October 27, 2011
Romeo Castellucci's latest production has seen its audiences assaulted on the way into the theater and performances disrupted nightly
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:30PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Our weekend show going at BAM and the Chocolate Factory
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:35PMTuesday, October 25, 2011
This weekend took Culturebot's Jeremy Barker to the Public to take in Mike Daisey's latest show
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:20PMThursday, October 20, 2011
The monologist's new show has earned raves for his performance even as critics take issue with the content
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:35PMMonday, October 17, 2011
The iconic choreographer explores his own mortality in "I don't believe in outer space"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:26PMFriday, October 14, 2011
The venerable LIFT Festival plays host to an innovative new experimental platform for work exploring distance and dislocation with a digital invitation to anyone around the world
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:34PMJason Holtham and Keith Josef Adkins present the latest installment of their festival celebrating boundary-breaking emerging black theater artists
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:34AMThursday, October 13, 2011
Work begins on the latest new high-end arts space in Brooklyn's downtown cultural district, where BRIC will take up residency in 2013
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:02PMTrying to see what's there to see in Lin Hwai-min's latest calligraphic exploration "Water Stains on the Wall"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:29PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
Choreographer Wang Yuanyuan, whose "Haze" comes to BAM this month, talks about making contemporary dance in China
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:44PM"Ordinary Witnesses," the first of two at NYLA, uses interviews with torture survivors to explore the human capacity to survive
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:38PMThursday, October 6, 2011
The founder SABAB talks about the challenges making "The Speaker's Progress," a satire on political inertia in the Arab world, opening tonight at BAM
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:25PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
The dark star of Spanish theater makes her way to the US with a powerful work about aging and the body
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:13PMFriday, September 30, 2011
A Belgian choreographer gives us guys of "African descent" doing dance-y stuff
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:34PMThursday, September 29, 2011
Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits aesthetically splits the difference between Africa and the Occident in a piece that aims for pure movement joy
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:00PM 
