Category: Performance Art

July 12, 2013 / / Community
October 26, 2011 / / Music

Thanks to all the French intellectuals roaming around Brooklyn these days, the Walls & Bridges series delivered to our door many talented young francophones including the cast of the musical Please Kill Me, based on the popular book, an oral history of punk. Read our review and watch video of this one time exclusive performance.

September 21, 2011 / / Performance Art

Jester’s Dead re-imagines the classic 80s flick, Top Gun, in a theatrical parody packed with swordfights, songs, and text from every play in Shakespeare’s canon. In this adrenaline-fueled mashup, we’re going straight to the danger zone.

September 19, 2011 / / Performance Art

The best thing about Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant is that it is a good idea that was kept alive through dedication, aspiration and motivation. Its storyline and classic rock inspired song numbers are beautifully tongue in cheek, reek of irony, and rolled in delight.

April 29, 2011 / / Performance Art
November 19, 2010 / / Performance Art

If you remember the good old days of Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s (MNN) public access television extravaganza, then you might remember seeing one Diane Dwyer, DIY circus performer and local artist, whose 1994 lo-fi video production of her very own circus hit the airwaves before YouTube was even a twinkle in our eyes. These days her program, Diane’s Circus, is on it’s way to making a comeback – digitally.

November 10, 2010 / / Performance Art

Our November guest contributor Shelly Oria is also a playwright, and has contributed this excerpt of her original work, Emma’s Undoing. Meet Sergey, Emma and Barco, and their Russian humor.

June 2, 2010 / / Music

At the Forgetters show last Thursday, Blake Schwarzenbach and bandmates ex-Against Me! drummer Kevin Mahon and bassist Caroline Paquita from Bitchin’ played a solid show at the Bell House, punctuated by short and sweet Hamlet riffs. Watch the video here.

March 30, 2010 / / Performance Art