The Arts in New York City

Meet at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street (between Astor Pl. and E. 4th St.), ABSOLUTELY NO LATER THAN 6:45pm.

Hopefully your recent experience of writing a brief piece for an audience gave you some fresh insight into theater, language, and performance. Still I can’t guarantee that this event won’t leave you scratching your head a bit so if you’re interested, here is some info to consult:

• information on the play cycle
• a radio story regarding the plays and the playwright
• the ‘play of the day’ from the play cycle
• a brief article about the play cycle from the NYTimes.
• a long but very engaging profile about the playwright by the critic Hilton Als, from the New Yorker.

You might enjoy this article from the NY Times.

For information regarding the performances discussed in the article see this link.

PS For my part I have enjoyed remembering your spoken-word pieces for the past day.

For information on the fall 2007 Baruch student production of Neil LaBute’s “The Shape of Things”, directed by Brian Rhinehart, click here.

Performances run from November 13-17, evenings at 7:30 and also a Saturday matinee at 2:00pm.

Here’s the Wikipedia entry discussing the play – once you see the production, you can add to the entry with your own critique!

I don’t know if you noticed these articles form the NY Times, but you might be interested in them…

• from today (Nov. 4), an article about music, and the people who make it, for “Family Guy” (the FOX animated show), discussing the complexities and unexpectedly broad range of the music involved
• also from today, an article on dancers working to get their bachelor’s degrees, since their dance careers are virtually guaranteed be over by the age of 35 (does dance remind you of an underpaid, less rule-bound, even more cutthroat version of professional sports yet?)
• from Oct. 31, a preview and discussion of the dance we went to last night and,
• from Nov. 2, a review of the performance

… to see a Broadway-bound musical, Lorenzo.
Performances on Nov 13, 14, & 15 (Tues-Thurs.)

For complimentary tickets
contact Eric Krebs at 212-967-7079
or email him at EKTMINC[at]aol.com

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…for bringing all the food and making the class a party. It took me a while to figure out that you meant to eat all of that food during the class! It was a tricky treat you put together!

-Zoe

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Hungry for new art? Then Performa 07, the performance biennial that kicks off this week (see performa-arts.org for details), has a dish for you! Every day at lunchtime from 11 am to 4 pm, Oct. 27-Nov. 20, 2007 Freeman’s restaurant on Freeman Alley in SoHo is serving an experimental culinary work by Turkish conceptual artist Serkan Özkaya’s (b. 1973). Dubbed Bring Me the Head of. . . , the work is a ginger spice cake with bourbon, caramel and cream (created by Freeman’s chef Jean Adamson) that can be yours for the bargain price of $10. Art appreciation here is via the taste buds, as restaurant patrons are “invited to consume and thereby destroy the art.” Özkaya concept requires that the dish take the shape of “a head of an icon of childhood,” and in this manifestation the model is Caravaggio’s Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (ca. 1609).

(Lu – this one’s for you!)

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Conversation with Eric Krebs, Theatrical Producer

Wednesday Oct. 24 at 3pm at the 45 St. Theater
354 W. 45 St., just east of 9th Ave. on the south side
(Closest subway is the A/C/E at 42 St. and 8th Ave. From there it’s 3 blocks north and 1 block west.)

More info on Eric Krebs