Starting today, the Abrons Art Center is hosting a ten-day long festival of contemporary performance called American Realness. Combining many different aspects of experimental performance art including dance, traditional theater, drag shows and concerts, the festival has over 46 performances of 20 productions. There is also a bookstore and a pop-up cafe to provide respite [...]
Category Archives: Theatre
Torpedoed and Revived on Theater Row
November 21, 2011 – 5:44 pm
burn·ing adjective 1. aflame; on fire. 2. intense; passionate: a burning desire. noun the state, process, sensation, or effect of being on fire, burned, or subjected to intense heat. Both the characters and the actors in Thomas Bradshaw’s newest, and most nuanced play to date, Burning, are aptly on fire. These people respond heatedly to [...]
Three. Two. One. Performa 11
October 30, 2011 – 9:09 am
Performa, the visual art performance biennial, is descending upon the city for the first three weeks of November. In its fourth and ever growing iteration, the biennial’s diverse schedule traverses theatre, poetry, comedy, film and music, and includes truly innovative performances. Many are even free while others require an RSVP, and others, paid tickets. Our [...]
Upon My Word
March 2, 2011 – 4:23 pm
Please join our friends this Friday, March 4 for cocktails and a very special the third performance of Upon My Word at the historic Players Club. More than just a landmark, the Players Club is truly a holdover from a time gone by. Like its neighbor the National Arts Club, the Players Club is a converted gentleman’s club that readily evokes [...]
Upon My Word
January 26, 2011 – 12:25 pm
Tonight, brave the snow and see a special performance of an original operetta written by Alec Coiro, starring Alexandra Butler, Erica Randlett, Gordon Hull and Nick Kramer, and produced by our friend Erin Krause. Set in Victorian England, the musical follows the manful Lord Alec as he chooses which of two blushing maidens he will make [...]
Sam Rockwell’s Nymphs & Innocents
April 5, 2010 – 7:57 am
Sam Rockwell as Justin Hammer in the second installment of the Iron Man franchise. Ten years on from his show-stopping performance as a moonwalking maniac in the original Charlie’s Angels movie Sam Rockwell returns to his roots with two familiar roles–one evil and the other innocent–strikingly similar to those that made him a star. In [...]
Big Eater at The Kitchen
March 12, 2010 – 8:27 am
Photo by Paula Court Clearly contemporary art can have anything as its subject matter and can execute it in any form. “Big Eater” does just that, situating a performance piece on David Hasselhoff’s demoralizing video, taped by his young daughter, in which he’s eating a hamburger on the ground completely wasted. Through the device of [...]
Trifles at St. Mark’s Church
January 25, 2010 – 2:06 pm
Trifles, a 1916 one-act play by Susan Glaspell set at the scene of a bizarre murder in the Midwest in 1900, is being staged by Theater of the Two-headed Calf at St. Mark’s Church. Trifles director Brooke O’Harra and Composer Brendan Connelly team up with the new music ensemble Yarn/Wire to approach Glaspell’s text as [...]
Mendes, Shakespeare, BAM!
January 22, 2010 – 1:42 pm
Oscar and Tony winner Sam Mendes has arrived in Brooklyn with a pair of plays by the grand old bard as part of the second annual Bridge Project, a cross-Atlantic production between The West End’s Old Vic Theatre and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (his street team seems to have arrived well in advance with [...]
Cassavetes Goes Public
January 12, 2010 – 11:30 am
The Public Theatre’s presentation of “John Cassavetes’ Husbands,” running as part of the Under the Radar festival, is a nearly verbatim, unabridged reproduction of a largely improvised movie. Whatever the late great auteur’s feeling about the ‘I’-word (busily qualifying it with hours of workshopping and rehearsals, I imagine), the rhythms of his 1970 film, starring [...]
