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Breuer, Crouch, Joseph, Maleczech, Watts, et al. Set for 2009 Under the...

The Public Theater has announced the 2009 line-up for the Under the Radar Festival, to be held at the Public Theater and partner venues, January 7-18. The festival, curated by Marc Russell, is committed to tracking new theater...

Avant Garde Project 126: US Electronic Music VI, Charles Dodge

Image via Wikipedia From the Avant Garde Project: The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on...

Poetry in brief: Drives by Leontia Flynn

Leontia Flynn's restless second collection sets off from Belfast, the poet's hometown, for a whistle-stop tour of cities such as Rome, Paris and New York. Poems whizz by. Only four of the volume's 53 pieces go over the page;...

Brought to book

Richard White has just left a comment on my Geoff Lawson essay, in which I refer to Lawson's nickname of Henry, after the Australian poet, and suggest that this shows a certain classiness and cultural awareness by Lawson's...

"Synecdoche," where everything sparkles

All the world's a stage, literally, for Caden Cotard. A small-time theater director in Schenectady, N.Y., he becomes the unlikely recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant and spends the windfall on a vast avant-garde theater...

Zoe Kazan, Charles L. Mee, Naomi Wallace Are Among 2009 Humana Fest Writers (Playbill)

Playbill - Plays by Marc Masterson and Adrien-Alice Hansel, Zoe Kazan, Charles L. Mee, Allison Moore, Naomi Wallace and the group UNIVERSES will fill the stages of Actors Theatre of Louisville for the 33rd Annual Humana...

Cal vs Oregon State

Every year, I cheer for the illustrious Cal Bears. ….and every year, as if playing a part in a Shakespearean tragedy, a Samuel Beckett play or a Greek “goat song”, the team “dies” an untimely “death” at the hands of a mortal...

Obituary: Nicolas Bataille

Director of The Bald Prima Donna, the world's longest-running play at the same venue In a narrow street off the Boulevard St-Michel in the Latin quarter of Paris, between odorous stalls serving kebabs and crêpes, is the tiny,...

Donald Munro: So who will play me in THIS movie?

Here's an example in which I truly hope that life doesn't imitate art. Bee reader Ralene Stevens passes along news about a new play called "Eat the Runt" by Robert Riechel Jr. that recently opened at the Hudson Guild Theatre...

Robert Fox: Our troops will continue to die in this unwinnable war unless we change strategy

John Hutton, the new defence secretary, appeared to be applying some pretty asymmetric logic to a very asymmetric problem when he gave his first major policy speech about Afghanistan this week. British troops must hang on in...

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