On the ambivalent legacy of January's premier festival
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:02PMLivestream the Chocolate Factory's memorial event Monday, Feb. 6 at 5:30pm eastern
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:08PMHeading into BAM’s Fishman Space for Ontroerend Goed, part of the Public’s 2023 Under the Radar Festival, felt like finally getting to a long-delayed date. I’d been looking forward to …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:29PMEdward Einhorn has gamified independent theater producing, in a fun but remarkable educational exercise is demystifying just what it takes to make a play
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:24PM2:10 p.m. A quick update–the organizers of the Howlround panel this evening have also launched an online resource, COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources, containing important information fo…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:06PMWhen the Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vest”) protests broke out just a little over a year ago, the leaderless, populist movement was somewhat baffling – as with so much of French social life…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:06PMIn summary: This should shouldn't have been put up, here or anywhere
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:42PMSince it’s often hard to explain a good piece of theater – as Milo Rau’s Five Easy Pieces, which had its all-too-brief North American premier two weeks ago at the Skirball Center, cert…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:09PMA very telling moment occurs right at the top of American Juggalo, a new play produced by collective Unattended Baggage, at HERE Arts Center that closed March 3. After a projected slideshow …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:25PMWhat controversies like Robert Lepage's "SLĀV" reveal about the shortcomings of art practices
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:54PMTone-deaf and half-baked, Ivo van Hove's adaptation of "The Fountainhead" flounders onstage
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:04PMShaun Irons and Lauren Petty discuss "Why Why Always," a cine-performance
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 07:33PMCanada abandons the arts for "creative hubs"; exploring relevance in performance at Philly FringeArts; questioning the Guggenheim; and more.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:18PMThe British artist discusses "Blackouts," at Crossing the Line 2017
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:24PM“Roberto Bolano’s appearance in the world is great for Latin American literature, for Latin American writers,” Javier Antonio Gonzalez, playwright and artistic director of the theater …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:18PMDavid Herskovits's latest investigation into the art of theater kicks off with a pared down adaptation of "Mourning Becomes Electra"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:21AMfindlay//sandsmark + pettersen offer a bleak take in "o' death"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:33PMWorking with a cast of fine young women to reveal the richness of personal identity
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:30PMThe director offers his latest multi-disciplinary exercise in task-based performance
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:13AMIn "The Reenactors," reality is theatrical realism is employed as deconstructionist technique
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:31AMA decade after he helped pioneer theater blogging, director Isaac Butler looks back
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:13PMIn the latest from the "autoteatro" auteur, Hampton delivers a stinging indictment of global capitalism that provides more symptoms than diagnosis
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:22PMDespite the rich potential, "Chambre" replicates problematic interpretations of Genet's play dating back to the 1950s
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:04PMFrom nearly accidental performer to emerging performance impresario, Ilan Bachrach reflects on the winding road
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:31AM20 years after its premiere and 5 years after its author's death, an intergeneration collaboration seeks to reintroduce the work of a downtown legend
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:24PMSibyl Kempson discusses photography as activism and voyeurism in her new play "Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:13AMIn "Andy Warhol's 15 (Color Me, Warhol)," director/choreographer Raja Feather Kelly offers up Andy Warhol's take on "A Chorus Line"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:06PMThe director of Witness Relocation discusses staging an odyssey through a yard-sale in their third production of a new play by Charles Mee
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:43AMVideo games as virtual disaster tourism and the liberation of memory in Ogawa's latest play
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:42AMWhat happens when theater provocateurs in the art world return to the theater?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:55PMThe performance artist and comedian discusses her transgressive stand-up routine reclaiming the "rape joke"
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