Wednesday, February 19, 2025
In 2024, Talking Band and 600 Highwaymen presented "The Following Evening" at PACNYC. Here are some thoughts after a year's reflection.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Learning to see Los Angeles through the hype and imagining a new civic dramaturgy.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:24PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2024
The subtle, subversive brilliance of Back to Back Theatre's "The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes" at REDCAT
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Building arts and culture infrastructure? Here are some lessons learned from a community-based cultural asset mapping initiative in South Los Angeles.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2024
If the human world is organized in small groups, what are the qualities and conditions that make small groups work best?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Once you notice it, you can't stop seeing it - the world organized in small groups. Why? What makes small group experiences uniquely powerful?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2024
In 2004, nearly 300 NYC bloggers and their readers came together IRL for the first time to meet each other, drink and try to hook up. What does it mean when online communities gather in pers…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Daniel Fish's "Oklahoma!" in Los Angeles, Taylor Mac, Kiki and Herb and other tales of "Black Box to Broadway". Essay #3 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venue…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2024
What happens to an artist and their music on the journey from small clubs to stadiums and how are these experiences different? Essay #2 in a series about the unique power of live performance…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2024
The first in a series of essays about the power of live performance in small rooms.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 1, 2023
Okay. Â I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now " and I didn't even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds " but I know how things are, I know what life is…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:49PM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2022
600 Highwaymen's "A Thousand Ways, Part 3: An Assembly" is one of 2022's most remarkable works of theater.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:36AM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2019
"Ain't Too Proud" is more than just a jukebox musical.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:42AM[SHARE]Friday, December 1, 2017
The critic or artist who wants to be trusted must be willing to be vulnerable and flawed; she must be willing to be wrong. She must be willing to risk. And it is no less terrifying for the c…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Philosophery Alva Noë joins Jess Curtis and Claire Cunningham at CounterPulse in SF
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 20 (pp. 261 – 264) of Mark Fisher’s book How To Write About Theatre, published by Bloomsbury and released in paperback in August, 2015.Â…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:40AM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2015
"When are we artists and when are we everyone?" The answer, of course, is that artists are always everyone, we are members of a greater Public, and it is in acknowledging this that artists …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
Andy's report from Festivals Edinburgh and the Momentum Symposium.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:13PM[SHARE]Monday, April 6, 2015
Monday, January 5, 2015
Andy reports back from London's Dialogue Festival: Talking/Making/Taking Part
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Andy shares some thoughts on Bach, Counterpoint, The Enlightenment, Programming Languages and Aesthetics.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Andy's "Five Lectures on Performance" are now online at Vimeo, SoundCloud and iTunes.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Los Angeles Performance Practice and The Bootleg Theater present The Second Annual Live Arts Exchange (LAX) from September 11 - 21, 2014
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 28, 2014
A candid conversation on performing while black and male. With Germaul Barnes, Whitney Hunter, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste & Andre Zachery.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 13, 2014
This article was originally posted on the blog Ephemeral Objects: Art Criticism for the Post-Material World, made possible through the funding of the Creative Capital | Warhol Fou…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Andy talks to Troika Ranch's Dawn Stoppiello and Mark Coniglio
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Andy lectures on how creativity, collaboration and improvisation are central to the creation of Democracy in America.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:18PM[SHARE]Monday, June 30, 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
Download Maximum Performance (BETA) Andy's collected essays 2011-2013
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