Posts Tagged ‘ theatre ’

Third Tuesday of trip: thunder, lightning & TCG

Baltimore, I love you.  I had forgotten how southern you are.  Faidley’s crabcakes and greens, folks lingering on stoops, the accents, the crumbling facades, the steaming trees – they all seem to sweat old bay and beer. Lexington Market, Center Stage, even my friend Gina’s apartment sent me back to a strange and heady time: [ READ MORE ]

Waking up in the land of cotton and coiffures.

I’m astonished by the beauty of Charleston – I mean flat out leveled by the place. The architecture is cut from butter and brick and burnished wood, and there is a sense of genteel opulence downtown like a dollop of clotted cream. If it wasn’t for the longitude, I could plant myself right here and [ READ MORE ]

First Friday of the trip, and all is well.

I’ve made tracks across most of the US now, with stopovers in Denver, Wichita, Memphis and Birmingham. I haven’t had a lot of time to linger and enjoy things, though I did wander through Beale Street this morning, which set Memphis in a whole new light. I also had a great meeting at the Denver [ READ MORE ]

Starting the day with photos of Detroit’s Beautiful, Horrible Decline – TIME

via time.com Above, the United Artists Theater – a Spanish Gothic theater built in 1928, closed in the 70′s. This image is going to haunt me for weeks. Visit the site for the rest of the photo essay[ READ MORE ]

Can Rocco Landesman make the NEA relevant again? – LA Times

via latimesblogs.latimes.com Producer Rocco Landesman has been tapped as next head of the NEA – a fascinating development. It’s time to get some muscle behind that office again. “100,000 nonprofits arts organizations support more than 5 million jobs and return nearly $30 billion in revenue every year.” That’s some actual power to leverage. Let’s get [ READ MORE ]

Portland in the (er) morning

Drove all night (not a metaphor) to sunny (not a metaphor) Portland, and have been face down contemplating the quiet of a hotel room until…. now.  All is mudlucious, off to Kenny & Zukes for too much meat, and then to Defunktheatre to catch Gary Winter’s latest: Cooler.  Not sure if that one is a [ READ MORE ]

Armo – Compagnie Jerome Thomas

via jerome-thomas.fr Poking around for contemporary circus-inspired performance, I happened upon Jerome Thomas. Sweet site, even a few videos (and I could navigate just fine sans any French language skills)[ READ MORE ]

Tony Award Nominees

Congrats to friends and colleagues – especially Diane and Sten working on Hair! http://tinyurl.com/2u5g2r[ READ MORE ]

Interview with the late Augusto Boal

From Democracy Now:  “Augusto Boal, the legendary Brazilian political playwright and popular educator, died Saturday at the age of seventy-eight. He was the founder of the Theater of the Oppressed, a popular international movement for a participatory form of theater as a means of promoting knowledge, democratic forms of interaction, and transformation. We play a [ READ MORE ]

Artists Online Free and Unfettered

Just stumbled on Hillman Curtis, and thought I’d post the other sites I adore for avant garde and experimental art and artists online.  Hillman Curtis / Film and Video “The Artist Series Films are short portraits of designers, artists and filmmakers.” http://www.hillmancurtis.com/index.php?/film/view/artist_series/#  YouTube / Screening Room Featuring a slate of stuff from the Tribecca Film [ READ MORE ]

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