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Friday, December 2, 2011

Big Dance Theater’s “Supernatural Wife” at BAM by Jeremy M. Barker

Paul Lazar and Annie-B nail it with a re-imagining of Euripide's "Alcestis" that counts among the best Next Wave has offer this year

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:39AM
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

A Report from the Latest Edition of The Current Sessions by Jeremy M. Barker

A group of young dance-makers displays some incredible movement talent, but even in an environment designed to promote risk-taking, only a few seemed to push their boundaries

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:53PM

Shen Wei Takes Over the Armory (& the Rest of a Very Busy Week) by Jeremy M. Barker

Our too-much-to-do list includes Peter Jacobs' new show at the Chocolate Factory, a play about sex with comatose women directed by Lee Breuer, and more

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 08:55PM
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Democracy, Art & Critics, or, What Happens to Important Stuff If There’s No One to Call It Important? by Jeremy M. Barker

Michael Kaiser has been rightly ran through the ringer, but in this brave new democratically discursive world, what happens to art?

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:10PM
Thursday, November 17, 2011

John Jasperse’s “Canyon” Starts Strong Then Staggers Weakly to a Close by Jeremy M. Barker

The talented choreographer's newest work, at BAM's Next Wave Fest, starts with a lot of promise, but then seems to lose its way before an unsatisfying end

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:00PM
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Mashinka Firunts’ “Semiospectacle Nº 2″ at the IRT Theater by Jeremy M. Barker

Sesquipedal performer and Culturebot contributor Mashinka Firunts returns to New York with Semiospectacle this weekend

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:11PM

Why Aren’t Audiences Stupid? by Jeremy M. Barker

Michael Kaiser laments that cultural elites can't put a ticket-buying fear of ignorance into the masses anymore

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:55PM
Monday, November 14, 2011

APAP Madness Is Around the Corner As Festival Line-Ups Announced by Jeremy M. Barker

Get the word on what's at the 2012 COIL, Under the Radar, and American Realness Festivals

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:26PM
Thursday, November 10, 2011

Jos Houben Talks About Lecoq, Complicite, Beckett & Working With Peter Brook by Jeremy M. Barker

The Paris-based actor whose "Art of Laughter" played Crossing the Line this year returns to BAC in a lauded collection of Beckett shorts

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:33PM
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Ping Chong’s “Angels of Swedenborg” at La Mama by Jeremy M. Barker

The director's 1985 dance-theater piece stays true to its aesthetic roots, adding a humanistic sci-fi twist to a story of materialism and spirituality

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:09PM

Catalyst Dance & Blackfish Make Themselves (and Us) at Home by Jeremy M. Barker

Choreographer Emily Johnson and musical collaborator James Everest talk about "The Thank-you Bar" at NYLA this week

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:24PM
Thursday, November 3, 2011

An Afternoon at the Wave Rising Series in DUMBO by Jeremy M. Barker

Choreographer Young Soon Kim of White Wave Dance Co. works hard to provide opportunities to emerging dance talent; I caught one part of her showcase series Wave Rising

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:58PM
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hamlet? by Jeremy M. Barker

Irish director Gavin Quinn of Pan Pan Theatre talks about "The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane," coming to the New York this month

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:37PM
Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Ping Chong Revives “Angels of Swedenborg” at La MaMa by Jeremy M. Barker

A nearly 30-year-old masterpiece by director Ping Chong opens La MaMa's anniversary season

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:59PM
Monday, October 31, 2011

Coming Up at BAM: Phantom Limb and “Brooklyn Babylon” by Jeremy M. Barker

A pair of fellow theater bloggers offer their personal perspectives on upcoming works at the 2011 Next Wave Fest

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:48AM
Friday, October 28, 2011

This Week at BAM: The Grown-Ups Come to Town by Jeremy M. Barker

Ivo van Hove's "Cries and Whispers" and William Forsythe's "I don't believe in outer space" are the first can't-miss shows of Next Wave

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:22PM
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Far-Right Activists Try to Shut Down Theater Production in Paris by Jeremy M. Barker

Romeo Castellucci's latest production has seen its audiences assaulted on the way into the theater and performances disrupted nightly

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:30PM
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Weekend Reviews: Lyndsey Karr and Beijing Dance Theater by Jeremy M. Barker

Our weekend show going at BAM and the Chocolate Factory

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:35PM
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs”: The Follow-Up by Jeremy M. Barker

This weekend took Culturebot's Jeremy Barker to the Public to take in Mike Daisey's latest show

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:20PM
Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Controversy Over Mike Daisey’s “Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” by Jeremy M. Barker

The monologist's new show has earned raves for his performance even as critics take issue with the content

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:35PM
Monday, October 17, 2011

William Forsythe Company Comes to BAM by Jeremy M. Barker

The iconic choreographer explores his own mortality in "I don't believe in outer space"

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:26PM
Friday, October 14, 2011

The DISTANCE Festivals Opens Tomorrow in London by Jeremy M. Barker

The venerable LIFT Festival plays host to an innovative new experimental platform for work exploring distance and dislocation with a digital invitation to anyone around the world

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:34PM

New Black Fest 2011 Started This Week by Jeremy M. Barker

Jason Holtham and Keith Josef Adkins present the latest installment of their festival celebrating boundary-breaking emerging black theater artists

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:34AM
Thursday, October 13, 2011

BRIC Arts | Media Breaks Ground on New Home on Fulton Street by Jeremy M. Barker

Work begins on the latest new high-end arts space in Brooklyn's downtown cultural district, where BRIC will take up residency in 2013

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:02PM

Pretty, Vacant: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre at BAM by Jeremy M. Barker

Trying to see what's there to see in Lin Hwai-min's latest calligraphic exploration "Water Stains on the Wall"

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:29PM
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Hesitations: Fumbling Through the Haze of a Society in Transformation by Jeremy M. Barker

Choreographer Wang Yuanyuan, whose "Haze" comes to BAM this month, talks about making contemporary dance in China

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:44PM

Life Interrupted: Rachid Ouramdane Explores the Experience of Trauma by Jeremy M. Barker

"Ordinary Witnesses," the first of two at NYLA, uses interviews with torture survivors to explore the human capacity to survive

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:38PM
Thursday, October 6, 2011

Kuwaiti Theater Artist Sulayman Al-Bassam on Staying Current in a Changing World by Jeremy M. Barker

The founder SABAB talks about the challenges making "The Speaker's Progress," a satire on political inertia in the Arab world, opening tonight at BAM

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:25PM
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Angélica Liddell Makes Her US Debut at On the Boards by Jeremy M. Barker

The dark star of Spanish theater makes her way to the US with a powerful work about aging and the body

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:13PM
Friday, September 30, 2011

Compagnie Thor’s “To the Ones I Love” at BAM’s Next Wave Fest by Jeremy M. Barker

A Belgian choreographer gives us guys of "African descent" doing dance-y stuff

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:34PM
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Compagnie Thor’s “To the Ones I Love” at the Next Wave Fest by Jeremy M. Barker

Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits aesthetically splits the difference between Africa and the Occident in a piece that aims for pure movement joy

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:00PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic