I learned of David Henry Hwang’s plans to revisit his 2002 musical Flower Drum Song from Mark Harris’ October 2025 profile in New York Times Magazine. Hwang, in addition to […]
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:45PM[SHARE]Editor Eve Bromberg in conversation with Ayun Halliday and Greg Kotis, founders of Theater of the Apes whose new musical I AM NOBODY premiered April 6th at Magnet Theater.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:42AM[SHARE]Henry Darger was a janitor and dishwasher by day, and in the confines of his home, a writer and artist by night. His landlord discovered his oeuvre after Darger, in […]
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:06PM[SHARE]A profile on Dasha Schwartz, founder and creative director of Cardboard Stage, and former ballerina with The Dutch National Ballet and Alberta Ballet.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:36AM[SHARE]Editor Eve Bromberg in conversation with director Anne Kaufman about the revival of YOU GOT OLDER currently playing at The Cherry Lane Theater.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:36PM[SHARE]Editor Eve Bromberg in conversation with multi genre artist Danielle Durchslag on her upcoming exhibit JEWESS, opening March 13th at La Mama Galleria.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:54PM[SHARE]Editor Eve Bromberg in conversation with actor and playwright David Greenspan about Jerry Lieblich's WITHOUT MIRRORS opening at The Brick Theater on February 12th.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:31PM[SHARE]Editor Eve Bromberg in conversation with Emily Coates, Ain Gordon, and Derek Lucci about their piece "Tell Me Where It Comes From" performed at Guggenheim's Works & Process in late Novem…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:32AM[SHARE]Editor Eve Bromberg in conversation with writer Candance Bushnell about her upcoming performance of her one woman show "Candace Bushnell: True Tales of Sex, Success, and Sex and the City".
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:18PM[SHARE]Editor Eve Bromberg in conversation with Playwright Kanika Asavari Vaish and Director Frankie DiCiaccio on 2nd Murderer at The Flea Theater.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:36PM[SHARE]Editor Eve Bromberg in conversation with choreographer and dance scholar Richard Move on their BAM debut of Martha@BAM, part of the 2025 Next Wave Festival.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:54PM[SHARE]Claudia Hilda is a dancer, choreographer, and creator of visual narratives from Cuba. Creating highly gestural scores, Hilda relies on the body to bring narratives. The body becomes storytel…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:31PM[SHARE] In Family (2013), a group of three half-siblings live together in their childhood home awashed with the traces of abuse withstood by their mothers at the hands of their father. One …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:31PM[SHARE]In mid May, I sat down with choreographer Emily Johnson and scholar Kai Recollet to discuss their ongoing "kinstillatory fires" project"gatherings that bridge dance, decolonial practices…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:24AM[SHARE]Site specific work is notoriously hard to justify. Dramaturgically, the decision to stage a play any location other than a stage can often collapse into a gimmick: a sparkly choice without m…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:02PM[SHARE] Sitting down to work this afternoon, I selected to play my "On Repeat" playlist on Spotify: a selection of songs, continuously played, curated both by and for me. As I started this …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18AM[SHARE]There's a special type of actor who dwells in New York. Perhaps they've done film work" they're most likely still receiving residuals from Law and Order" but their primary dedication is to t…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:32PM[SHARE]When Deep Blue Sound announced its residence at The Public Theater, the playwrights in my MFA program were thrilled. Their response gave me an inkling as to what kind of playwright Abe Koogl…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:12PM[SHARE]The musical Rent plays an important role not only in the history of American musical theatre, but also in the lives, hearts, and minds of that special class of earnest young people: The Thea…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:42PM[SHARE]I first heard Isabel Monk Cade read her essay My Way"which has since become, through a collaboration with director Joy Donze, a fully-staged solo show" as part of The Dogtown Reading Series …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:32PM[SHARE]When I scheduled my interview with Jerry Lieblich and Paul Lazar"in preparation for the latest run of The Barbarians, Jerry Lieblich's unfurling meditation on rhetoric and power (and the pow…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:32PM[SHARE]"It couldn't happen here" was the reaction most theater-goers had to the news of the closing of the East Village's The Connelly Theater by the building's landlord: The Roman Catholic Archdio…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:18PM[SHARE]Trump's second presidency will change our lives, though the details of how are not yet clear. This was on playwright Jonathan Spector's mind the morning of November 8th ahead of the Broadway…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:18PM[SHARE]One of the miraculous things about New York City is how much goes on without your ever knowing about it. Every day a piece of art is made, a performance is rehearsed and mounted, or a writer…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:23PM[SHARE]Â I've always known that the David H Koch Theater, once known as The New York State Theater, was made to George Balanchine's specifications. Still, until sitting down to speak with Thomas…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:12PM[SHARE]Â My interest in theater, and acting, came from what I perceived as an intellectual limitation in ballet, where training is relegated to silence. While discussions of technique and aesthe…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:12AM[SHARE]Geraldine Realigned Drives from Gay Place to Gay Place and You're in the Car Too ostensibly follows a drag queen, Geraldine, on a road trip working her way through a list of great American g…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:18PM[SHARE]A few pages into the script of Peregrine Teng Heard's" playwright and artistic director of The Associates Theater Ensemble" newest play Redemption Story, I could sense its implicit political…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:18PM[SHARE]Â "Banality of Evil, as a phrase," Jesse Freedman the Artistic Director of Meta-Phys Ed. told me on the phone last week, each of us speaking from our respective Brooklyn apartments, "is m…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:06PM[SHARE]If it weren't for my erudite Anglophile cousin, I would never have known to see Lucy Prebble's The Effect at The Shed (from March 3-March 31). An early Prebble fan, she one day turned on I H…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:54PM[SHARE]​​ The first time I saw David Greenspan perform was in Adrian Einspanier's Lunch Bunch this past spring at the 122 Community Center in the East Village. I didn't know of him or…
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