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Fusebox Festival blogger Shannon McCormick reporting from Austin, TX. For the past nine years, Austin's Fusebox Festival has sought to bring a sense of local, national, and international com…
Culturebot contributor Tim Braun reporting from Austin, TX. The city of Austin has a festival almost every week now. South by Southwest, Austin City Limits, The Moontower Comedy Festival…
Any given day in NYC brings hundreds of choices of things to do and Culturebot Scanner is here to help put the good stuff on your radar. Here are some events to check out over the next two w…
Culturebot contributor Tim Braun sends this report from SXSW in Austin, TX.
With the Occupy Movement arising in the wake of the financial crisis, finally calling attention to income disparity and economic inequality, we’ve become familiar with the idea of the …
Chicago-spawned and now Brooklyn-based art duo Cupola Bobber (the collaboration of Stephen Fiehn and Tyler B. Myers) perform their latest project The Field, the Mantel this weekend, March…
This week and next, March (14-17 and 21-24) the Massachusetts-based No Theater return to New York City to perform Richard Maxwell's Caveman at The Performing Garage ~ 33 Wooster Street T…
Here are some awesome events coming up in the next few weeks, starting with a showing TONIGHT! Mark your calendars and check out these performances/symposiums/opportunities: MÃ¥rten SpÅ
Tele-Violet’s Lady Han, which refracts the 15th century Noh drama through the goggles of an Americana fever dream, premiered at Incubator Arts Project this month. The emerg…
Aretha Aoki's Las Gravitas, a solo about making a solo, ran last weekend at Danspace Project, in a shared evening with Benjamin Kimitch who presented a duet between Julie McMillan and …
So when I edited the third part of my essay on the Politics of Cultural Production in Theater, a bunch of stuff ended up on the cutting room floor for future consideration.  This didn&…
It's hard to know what to talk about first after seeing a play with robot actors. Last Friday, I saw the Robot Theater Project at Japan Society, a program of two plays, Sayonara and I, Worke…
Douglas Dunn's Cassations, which ran last weekend at Danspace Project, opens with seven multi-colored flower sculptures scattered throughout St. Mark's sanctuary, which are carried offstage …
Editor’s Note: Responses to given shows have a short shelf-life. This is a response to a show that we didn’t originally intend to publish a response to, in fact. Originally, I in…
Oh, the puppets! Last last weekend took me to Erin Courtney’s The Service Road directed by Meghan Finn in an Adhesive Theater Project production at the New York City College of T…
This episode of American Dad is probably one of the most insightful critiques of the state of mainstream American theater that I’ve ever seen. It hilariously skewers the torpid writing…
The Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is excited to announce the 2013-2014 DANCE MOViES Commission. This is an open call for artists, …
Magic at its most serious mysterious… There’s something ironic and beautiful and oh-so-meta about this. The Box, formerly the den of iniquity of choice for the debauched and glamo…
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak (via Skype) to the Theatre Criticism class at Royal Holloway, University of London. It was a lot of fun, they were great kids and asked fantastic quest…
Arturo Vidich's performance piece The Daedalus Effect and other dilemmas is memorable, if unpleasant. It begins with Arturo seated in the center of The Invisible Dog, on a crude one-legged s…
Back in April, Culturebot was invited to curate a week of events as part of Exit Art’s grand closing-down retrospective; our exhibit, “Ephemeral Evidence,” granted one-day …
THE PERFORMING GARAGE PRESENTS AN OPEN STUDIO SHOWING OF Jim Findlay DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER A PERFORMANCE FOR A SLEEPING AUDIENCE Take a deeply ambient journey through Cao Xueqin’s 1…
American Realness on Friday featured Jeanine Durning, Faye Driscoll, Tony Rizzi and Miguel Gutierrez all pushing in their own ways. I want to crawl inside Durning's head after experiencing h…
As January festival season wraps up, I want to touch on a few of the pieces I’ve caught at the Public’s Under the Radar Festival that I haven’t yet had a chance to. Belarus…
French choreographer David Wampach‘s Sacre at the Invisible Dog Art Center (unrecognizable- its white gallery/warehouse vibe magically transformed into a black box theater) was a brief…
