Friday, March 28, 2025
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 02:12PMTuesday, March 25, 2025
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 04:42PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
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 Ser…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:32PMMonday, January 27, 2025
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…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:32PMSaturday, December 7, 2024
“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 Cathol…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:18PMMonday, November 25, 2024
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 Broa…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:18PMWednesday, August 7, 2024
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 03:23PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
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 Thom…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:12PMTuesday, June 4, 2024
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 aestheti…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:12AMWednesday, May 15, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:18PMFriday, May 3, 2024
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 pol…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:18PMFriday, March 22, 2024
“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, “…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:06PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
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…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:54PMThursday, March 7, 2024
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 his l…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:06AMTuesday, February 20, 2024
Were they bearing their teeth in preparation to kill? Screaming silently in agony? Conjuring lost joy of their youth?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:48AMSaturday, December 23, 2023
Adaku’s forced departure forever alters her connection to reality — she is absorbed into the unknown, which marks the start of our inquiry. Her trauma, epistemically, is our starting poi…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:02PMThis fall, NYCB kicked off the celebration of their 75th anniversary dedicating the entire season to the work of George Balanchine, the company’s co-founder and artistic realizer. On the n…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:02PMThursday, October 19, 2023
Active reflection and associations should comprise our meditative state. If there were moments during the piece that disturbed us, we should return to the breathing exercise to find calm.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:25PMSaturday, September 16, 2023
Edelman always wanted to be white. ‘I know, I know. Dream achieved!’ he says.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:43AMThursday, May 25, 2023
How for the next few weeks these actors get to tackle conflicts onstage and then return to their everyday lives, undeniably altered. Meanwhile, before me, a performance was taking place. We …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:24PMMonday, April 3, 2023
There are those cultural events that feel too good to be true – many stars align to create a perfectly satisfying contribution, almost all-encompassing in its thoughtoutness.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:32PMWednesday, March 1, 2023
Pain has been felt in the halls of Balanchine’s house, but joy and beauty exist too. Neither outweighs the other.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:00AM 
