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At UES Show, Lucien Smith Leads the Charge of the Opportunist Brigade - Half a mil onward

Alene Lee, possibly the only female African-American member of the Beat Generation, once asked that movement's reluctant celebrity, Jack Kerouac, how he liked fame. He replied, "It's like old newspapers blowing down Bleecker Street." Incredibly, ...

by Christian Viveros-Fauné on June 4, 2014
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Deepest Man Hits Bottom

Immersion is a goal shared by free-divers -- intrepid souls who venture underwater without the aid of breathing equipment -- and experimental theater artists. But Deepest Man, a new multimedia piece by James Scruggs, mistakes metaphors of immersion...

by Jacob Gallagher-Ross on June 4, 2014
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Eva and Franco Mattes Dive into the Dark Web in New Tribeca Show - We make we sick

The "dark web," the "deep web," the "invisible web," the "darknet" -- these are all terms for the real-life data gulch that holds 400 to 550 times more information than the comparatively pantywaist world wide web. The obscure province of technophile...

by Christian Viveros-Fauné on May 28, 2014
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Quiver Your Timbres with the Wooster Group's Early Shaker Songs - Quiver your timbres

Longtime followers of the Wooster Group may experience anxiety even before setting foot inside the Performing Garage to see Early Shaker Songs. For one thing, a dusty LP inspired the experimental ensemble's new show, which is subtitled A Record Albu...

by Tom Sellar on May 28, 2014
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Seven Can't-Miss Arts Picks This Summer in NYC - [Summer Guide 2014]

George Widener May 29-July 5 Self-taught artist and mathematical savant George Widener brings his beguiling, calendar-based numerology to new works that consider his two favorite subjects: the sinking of the Titanic and the so-called technol...

by Rob Shuster on May 21, 2014
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Seven Books You Should Read This Summer - [Summer Guide 2014]

Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Lynn Sherr June 3 Small in stature yet large in courage, so private that she didn't come out of the closet until her obituary, pioneering American astronaut Sally Ride is a classic American en...

by James Hannaham on May 21, 2014
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The Top 16 Dance Events in NYC This Summer - [Summer Guide 2014]

DanceAfrica May 23-26 More than a mere performance, Baba Chuck Davis's annual downtown Brooklyn festival anchors a neighborhood-wide celebration of the African diaspora, this year featuring music and dance from Madagascar's Groupe Bakomanga ...

by Elizabeth Zimmer on May 21, 2014
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Houstonian Mark Flood's Capacity for Art-World Irony is as Big as Texas

"NEW WALL STREET CRASH," screams the headline of a vintage newspaper lying on the gallery's front desk. A perusal of the brittle pages reveals not the crash of 1929 but a burst bubble from '23 -- just another spin in capitalism's casino, that whirlw...

by R.C. Baker on May 21, 2014
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11 Ways to Have a Very New York Summer - [Summer Guide 2014]

Drums Along the Hudson June 1 It's been a while since the Lenape held sway in New York. (Maybe those trinkets weren't such a great deal after all.) But Native Americans will make their presence felt at Drums Along the Hudson, a festival in I...

by Alexis Soloski on May 21, 2014
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Greta Gerwig: Film Has Made It Difficult for People to Gauge What Real Sex Looks Like - In her stage debut (The Village Bike), Greta Gerwig tours new realms of female desire.

People aren't dramatically depicting the female orgasm," explains director Sam Gold (gray shirt, severe glasses). "It's not a major genre in the American theater." Actress Greta Gerwig (gray dress, cheerful ponytail) agrees ruefully. "For the mos...

by Alexis Soloski on May 21, 2014
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Here are Your 2014 Obie Awards Winners

The Village Voice presented its 59th annual Obie Awards, celebrating achievement in the Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway theater, at a ceremony on Monday, May 19 at Webster Hall in Greenwich Village. The festivities were co-hosted by Tamara Tun...

by Village Voice Staff on May 21, 2014
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Pay No Attention to the Man in the Bunny Suit - Ignore the work of Best New American Play Obie-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at your own peril.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins should be savoring the moment. This spring, at the ripe age of 29, the playwright has catapulted to the American theater's top tier with two enormous critical successes in New York and a fast-growing list of prestigious commis...

by Tom Sellar on May 21, 2014
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The Curtain Raiser: At 86, Estelle Parsons Is on a Role

Who turns down an all-expenses-paid trip to the Riviera? Estelle Parsons did -- and her fateful decision resulted in one of the most enduring and adventuresome careers in the American theater. It happened like this: "When I came to New York, I...

by Dennis Brown on May 21, 2014
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Climate Change: The Obie Awards Chairman Charts the Seasonal Highs and Lows

I always thought Charles Dickens was exaggerating. "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." C'mon, every era has its ups and downs, but life essentially flows on down the mainstream, only occasionally overflowing onto one side or the o...

by Michael Feingold on May 21, 2014
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Nine Notable NYC Theater Events This Summer - [Summer Guide 2014]

Summerworks 2014 Performances begin May 30 Bold new plays need a place to chill in our warming climate, and Clubbed Thumb unfailingly provides one with its annual Summerworks series. The programmers generally prefer idiosyncratic young voice...

by Tom Sellar on May 21, 2014
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Uptown and in Chelsea, Two Shows Exemplify the New Surreal - John Newman's works throw a fabulous "Fit"

At first glance, John Newman's sculptures might look like the spawn of some aberrant Google algorithm for "texture." Given a bit of contemplation, however, their formal tumult coheres into a sagacious beauty. Take, for example, Colors balance on ...

by R. C. Baker on May 14, 2014
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The Few Speaks to the Long-Haul Trucker in All of Us - Hunter in the lonely heartland

Somewhere deep in flyover country, two miles off the interstate and beyond a gas station, sits a trailer where a sad but noble newsletter makes its home. The publication caters to truckers who make soul-deadening hauls across the nation's vast midse...

by Tom Sellar on May 14, 2014
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In the Park Manically Enchants with Gruesome, Erotic Brevity

"I think that I died as a child," muses Edgar Oliver. "Some part of me stopped. But some part of me kept going. I keep on wandering." As with his previous solo work, In the Park relies heavily on Oliver's unsettling persona, marked by his inimitable...

by James Hannaham on May 14, 2014
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The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock Waxes Psychological Ad Nauseam

It's a time-honored truism that great artists often lead unhappy lives. But how often does digging into a visionary's twisted psyche produce great art? That's the question David Rudkin raises in The Lovesong of Alfred J Hitchcock, now running at ...

by Miriam Felton-Dansky on May 14, 2014
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Met Photo Show Nails What Instagram Never Will - "Like" wow!

According to a recent article in the Art Newspaper, social media and the popularity of photo-sharing networks like Instagram are fueling a boom in audiences for photography exhibitions. But does that mean the future of museum shows depends on cat po...

by Christian Viveros-Fauné on May 7, 2014