Saturday, November 2, 2024
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 04:24PMWednesday, October 30, 2024
The ‘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 12:06PMSaturday, October 5, 2024
Few 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 05:24PMSunday, September 22, 2024
Matthew 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 01:32PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
The 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 01:54PMSaturday, August 10, 2024
You – 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 09:00AMTuesday, July 30, 2024
The 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 12:24PMSunday, July 14, 2024
Mur 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 11:36AMWednesday, May 22, 2024
For 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 06:02PMMonday, May 20, 2024
The 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 07:36PMSaturday, May 18, 2024
The 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…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:32PM 
