“Korach” & the Anarchist Conscience In the context of “Korach,” performed by the Living Theater, anarchism is presented as a tragic struggle. The political sanctioning of individual freedom is doomed outright to fail again & again—except for the last battle, which will be final, decisive, & victorious. The play starts out by saying that anarchism … Read more
“Korach” & the Anarchist Conscience by Jeff Grunthaner
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Posted by in Essays | Features | Performances | Theater Reviews | Travel | Travel Piece - (485 Comments)by Howard Pflanzer How can you produce a brand new controversial American play in Mumbai? I thought India would be an excellent place to produce and direct my new play, The Terrorist, a timely commentary on the US government policy of detention of South Asians and Muslims and the initiation of the war in Iraq. … Read more
TOMMY BAYIOKOS THE MUSICAL ACTOR OF MANY TALENTS BE ON THE LOOKOUT…
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Written by Phaedra Pinkston After meeting the late jazz drummer and band leader Buddy Rich, New York City local Tommy Bayiokos began playing drums professionally at the age of ten. Through the years, Bayiokos has studied with Kim Plainfield of Drummers Collective New York for almost ten years as well as performing with the Jack … Read more
Armory & Accessories
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An extremely long and image-dense New York art fair report by Janet Bruesselbach Everything I shot from Wednesday to Sunday is here. FIRST COURSE: The Armory Show I registered as press in advance for this and showed up about ten minutes after the press conference to pick up my badge. I briefly glanced at Pier … Read more
by Janet Bruesselbach Back in October, Steve Cannon called me up at work and told me he wanted to send me to Art Basel Miami. I had no idea what form that would take, and said as much, and then didn’t fully take him up on the offer until three weeks beforehand. Since I figured … Read more
LOVE-LIES-BLEEDING A play by Don De Lillo Reviewed by Bonny Finberg As Aristotle stated that a man doesn’t know his life until he dies, Don De Lillo asks: what is a life and whose are we living? Love-Lies-Bleeding, his third and latest play, also the name of an ornate plant with hanging clusters of red … Read more
By Evelyn McDonnell www.evelynmcdonnell.com A child’s leg ripped off by a runaway car in a riot. A politician thrown in jail for his peaceful community organizing. An unarmed motorcyclist brazenly beaten to death on the street by cops. Sitting in the audience inside the Carnival Studio Theater of Miami’s half-billion-dollar Cesar Pelli-designed Adrienne Arsht Center … Read more
by Carl Watson The subject of John Adam’s opera, Doctor Atomic has been close to my consciousness and my heart most of my life, having been raised in the age of the fall-out shelters, air raid drills, duck-and-cover exercises. In the 50s and 60s we lived with the constant threat of “The Bomb.” It informed … Read more
Review of The Connection(At the Living Theater, December 31 to February 13. Directed by Judith Malina; Music by Rene Mclean; director of production, Gary Brackett, stage manager, Erin Downhour) Certainly anything Piscator staged would have the same unifying thread in that one set of illustrative usages would be prominent. A character, say, Nora Helmer, was … Read more
“…Here we are well into fall and there’s so much catching
up to do so let’s begin where I last left off with a brief list of
gigs I witnessed, before getting to the heart of this article.
There was the Zorn – Lou Reed duo which culminated with guest
appearances by Mike Patton, Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, followed 2 nights
later by Zorn, Reed, Ribot and Milford Graves who played impeccably and
tastefully throughout the night and who during set two when Reed
joined in, actually seemed to enjoy being “the drummer in the
band”…” Read more
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