Tag: Theater
‘I’m going to get away with it’ A train woman slashes 2 NYC straphangers
Authorities are on the look out for a female passenger after an incident recorded on mobile showed a crazed woman 'merrily' slashing at a male and female straphangers on a downtown A NYC subway train Friday evening.
The woman, dressed...
Broadway Beacon Awards with guest star BROOKE SHIELDS.
Inside Broadway held their annual Broadway Beacon awards ceremony at the Players Club Thursday night. A handful of actors, actresses and magnates were on hand to be celebrated (if only for a moment). Things were decidedly rushed. As incredible as the...
The Corridor, The Box, and The Horror of Reality TV.
The Wayward Pen Foundation hosted the premiere of “The Corridor,” a play by Slovenian author Matjaz Zupancic, this week at The Box. Our Hostess this evening was Larisa Schweiger Drekonja, a Slovenian actress, model and...
“The Corridor.” A deconstruction of Reality TV…
In a day and age where we always complain about reality TV shows and how dumb some of the reality stars are, are we even aware that it is our own faults that these people reach the level of...
I Don’t Need You to Feel the Same.
An interview with artist Ety Fefer
Parents sometimes tell their children not to stare at strangers. No one ever told this to Ety Fefer. So as a small child, Ety looked. Then she drew what she saw into small characters...
A laughing matter…
Ladies who Laugh, the sold out comedy-slash-networking night put on by New York Women in Communications, Inc., managed to make a four (!) hour estrogen-heavy standup show into a highly enjoyable evening. Well played, ladies.
Perhaps I’ve already betrayed my...
The Midtown International Theatre Festival Skims the Sky’s Surface.
The Midtown International Theatre Festival celebrated its tenth anniversary season at the Bleecker Street Theatre, yesterday Sunday, June 28. On the cobblestone corner of Bleecker and Lafayette stands the theatre, with gold spray painted numbers to indicate its presence...
At the Inside B’way Beacon Awards- theater worth fighting for.
If there’s no business like show business, then there’s no place like the Player’s Club in Gramercy to celebrate its merits. A veritable shrine to the arts, with an impressive thespian lineage, the Player’s Club shone Thursday evening as...
Divas for Opera Lives Up to its Name.
The Divas Shop for Opera drew shopoholics and high society alike with its recent UES benefit shopping experience. With a chance at an exclusive first look at beautiful, gently used vintage, it would take a style lover with a...
Hair and Rally. Whatever happened to the idealism?
The line for “Hair” was packed. Just a Sunday afternoon observation. Of course I wasn’t here for the theater show, I was here for something else…
Stretching down the block from the play and wrapping around two corners were suburban...
Terra Nova- Prompting new theater and a connection to your soul.
Driving along the I-94 back into the city one night James Carter the Associate Artistic Director of the chic and progressive theater company TerraNova was alarmed by what he saw on the billboards there in front of him. The...
‘La Didone.’ – A Sci-fi Masterpiece.
There are many things in life that come with diabolical manifestations, repercussions and metaphors, Elizabeth LeCompte’s Wooster Group’s production of ‘Le Didone’ happens to also be one of them. What ensues during the high tech, high opera and in...
Sunday Night Crises with Hipsters.
The Glasslands Gallery has all the expected hallmarks of a Williamsburg absurdist theatre: bikes, stuffed animal heads, vintage appliances, undulating, gender-less masses and assorted ironic accoutrement. My drink tickets were ripped up Uno cards, reminiscent of a by-gone era...
Conversations with Paul Hutcheson.
We sent out Kat Hepburn this past weekend to the Frigid Theater festival. What follows is a diatribe on drunken sex, why we secretly love tranny porn, the concept of beauty, monogamy, identity, and the choices we make and...
Batsheva Dance Company leaves us Mesmerized at BAM.
Curtain rises, absolute stillness. Women are in a deep knee bend in front of men, statis dripping in the air between them (and us, the audience). Waiting, waiting. An audience member coughs. Another. We are holding our breath. And...
