The Following Evening, A Year Later by Andy Horwitz

In 2024, Talking Band and 600 Highwaymen presented "The Following Evening" at PACNYC. Here are some thoughts after a year's reflection.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 3:12am on February 19, 2025☆⚑

Learning to See Los Angeles by Andy Horwitz

Learning to see Los Angeles through the hype and imagining a new civic dramaturgy.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 8:24pm on January 7, 2025☆⚑

The Room Where It Happens (The Room Being Your Head or, the Phenomenology of Neurodiversity in Performance) by Andy Horwitz

The subtle, subversive brilliance of Back to Back Theatre's "The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes" at REDCAT

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:54am on September 30, 2024☆⚑

Mapping the Cultural Treasures of South L.A. by Andy Horwitz

Building arts and culture infrastructure? Here are some lessons learned from a community-based cultural asset mapping initiative in South Los Angeles.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:48am on May 14, 2024☆⚑

The Alchemy of Small Groups (Part 6 of 6) by Andy Horwitz

If the human world is organized in small groups, what are the qualities and conditions that make small groups work best?

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 5:48pm on April 30, 2024☆⚑

The World In Small Groups by Andy Horwitz

Once you notice it, you can't stop seeing it - the world organized in small groups. Why? What makes small group experiences uniquely powerful?

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:24am on April 16, 2024☆⚑

Worst Sex Ever and the WYSIWYG Talent Show, or Tales from Blogland by Andy Horwitz

In 2004, nearly 300 NYC bloggers and their readers came together IRL for the first time to meet each other, drink and try to hook up. What does it mean when online communities gather in pers…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:02pm on April 9, 2024☆⚑

From Black Box to Broadway by Andy Horwitz

Daniel Fish's "Oklahoma!" in Los Angeles, Taylor Mac, Kiki and Herb and other tales of "Black Box to Broadway". Essay #3 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venue…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:42am on April 2, 2024☆⚑

From Storefront to Stadium by Andy Horwitz

What happens to an artist and their music on the journey from small clubs to stadiums and how are these experiences different? Essay #2 in a series about the unique power of live performance…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18am on March 26, 2024☆⚑

Satori in a Storefront by Andy Horwitz

The first in a series of essays about the power of live performance in small rooms.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:36am on March 19, 2024☆⚑

The Theater(s)We Need Now by Andy Horwitz

Okay.  I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now " and I didn't even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds " but I know how things are, I know what life is…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 2:49pm on July 1, 2023☆⚑

the single most remarkable work of 2022 by Andy Horwitz

600 Highwaymen's "A Thousand Ways, Part 3: An Assembly" is one of 2022's most remarkable works of theater.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 6:36am on November 21, 2022☆⚑

Pride, Prejudice and Temptation by Andy Horwitz

"Ain't Too Proud" is more than just a jukebox musical.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 6:42am on March 1, 2019☆⚑

A Choreography of Ideas by Andy Horwitz

The critic or artist who wants to be trusted must be willing to be vulnerable and flawed; she must be willing to be wrong. She must be willing to risk. And it is no less terrifying for the c…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 2:24pm on December 1, 2017☆⚑

Philosophy and Choreography Together in SF by Andy Horwitz

Philosophery Alva Noë joins Jess Curtis and Claire Cunningham at CounterPulse in SF

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:10am on December 9, 2015☆⚑

Criticism for Theatre's Sake by Andy Horwitz

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 20 (pp. 261 – 264) of Mark Fisher’s book How To Write About Theatre, published by Bloomsbury and released in paperback in August, 2015.Â…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:40am on October 15, 2015☆⚑

The NEA at 50 and The Death of the Public Good by Andy Horwitz

"When are we artists and when are we everyone?" The answer, of course, is that artists are always everyone, we are members of a greater Public, and it is in acknowledging this that artists …

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18am on October 2, 2015☆⚑

Feeling The Momentum in Edinburgh by Andy Horwitz

Andy's report from Festivals Edinburgh and the Momentum Symposium.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 3:13pm on September 24, 2015☆⚑

From Poland, With Love by Andy Horwitz

Andy reports on his December trip to Poland.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:34am on April 6, 2015☆⚑

Experiments in Participation in London by Andy Horwitz

Andy reports back from London's Dialogue Festival: Talking/Making/Taking Part

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:18pm on January 5, 2015☆⚑

On Music, Code and Creativity by Andy Horwitz

Andy shares some thoughts on Bach, Counterpoint, The Enlightenment, Programming Languages and Aesthetics.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:23am on November 11, 2014☆⚑

Five Lectures on Performance Now Online by Andy Horwitz

Andy's "Five Lectures on Performance" are now online at Vimeo, SoundCloud and iTunes.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:21am on September 9, 2014☆⚑

LAPP It Up at Bootleg with LAX by Andy Horwitz

Los Angeles Performance Practice and The Bootleg Theater present The Second Annual Live Arts Exchange (LAX) from September 11 - 21, 2014

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 9:08pm on September 3, 2014☆⚑

Performing While Black by Andy Horwitz

A candid conversation on performing while black and male. With Germaul Barnes, Whitney Hunter, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste & Andre Zachery.

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:07am on August 28, 2014☆⚑

A Trip Through the Garden of Sonic Delights by Andy Horwitz

This article was originally posted on the blog Ephemeral Objects: Art Criticism for the Post-Material World, made possible through the funding of the Creative Capital | Warhol Fou…

SOURCE: Culture Bot at 2:46pm on August 13, 2014☆⚑