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July 22, 2009 3! was part of the Underground Zero Festival at PS 122 Doris Mirescu’s theater company Dangerous Ground specializes in creating multimedia “experiments” often using art house film classics as source material (i.e. Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris). However, one is totally unprepared for the visual and aural onslaught upon entering [...] Brick Theatre Written by Stan Richardson (and one suspects the unaccredited input of the company) with incidental music by Rachel Peters, this witty, tongue-twisting label tells us everything we need to know about the work. Of the three authors that are subversively alluded to in the title (Mark Medoff, Jean Giraudoux and [...] Company XIV Hot on the heels (no pun intended) of this winter’s delightfully debauched The Judgment of Paris, uber-talented Austin McCormick returns with Le Serpent Rouge. Working out of his company’s home space, a converted warehouse in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens (the non-gentrified section), McCormick’s latest dance-theater piece is subtitled A [...] Ontological Theater @ St. Mark’s Church Once again, that avant-garde shaman extraordinaire Richard Foreman continues to shock and awe. His latest environmental theater piece (an annual event at St. Mark’s in the Bowery) Astronome covers new territory. Subtitled A Night at the Opera, Astronome is a collaboration with John Zorn, the musical [...] Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre There’s an awful lot of talent on the stage of the Jacobs Theatre in the current show 13. There are 13 gifted adolescents with an onstage band comprised of 13 year old musicians. The candy-colored pop-up set and costumes are by David Farley who did such extraordinary work [...] Wild Project 33 To Nothing is a terrific, tough little musical in the vein of Tick, Tick…Boom or Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Grant James Varjas has written the taut, aggressive book and composed the intense alt-rock score both to sensational effect (additional credit on two of the songs is given to [...] Atlantic Theater One year ago at this time (literally), the Atlantic Theater was presenting the spectacular Spring Awakening. The show eventually moved to Broadway where it claimed eight Tony Awards including Best Musical. Watching 10 Million Miles, one cannot help feeling the producers are hoping for lightning to strike twice. Despite having the same [...] P.S. 122 Innovative performance artist Tim Miller returns home to P.S. 122 (the celebrated downtown performance space he co-founded) for his latest solo piece 1001 Beds. The title refers to the number of hotel bedrooms he most likely will have slept in if he continues to be an itinerant performance artist for [...] |
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