Scarlet Envy—the Louisville, KY native, favorite daughter of NYC, and RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Season 6 contestant (whose exit left us feeling very “uncomfortable” with the show’s host)—offers Gothamites an intimate performance made accessible to worldwide audiences, when she brings her solo show ALLSTAR to the comfy confines of Lower East Side venue Caveat. Last seen […]
AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR | Over the years, for a number of reasons, I’ve written quite a bit of material about Halloween. I worked for much of the 2000s for a marvelous website called I-mockery.com, and we were famous for our “Two Months of Halloween.” Every September and October, all content on the site was […]
Stored on a shelf or consigned to a corner for the long, silent stretches that fill most hours of their day, a strange alchemy takes place when a puppet and its maker hit the stage to tell a story. Transference of energy? Exchange of souls? A single, satisfactory explanation may elude, as to why we […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | A quarter century ago—a little more than 12 years before a contestant nicknamed “Porkchop” became the first of her kind to “sashay away”—Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood was dotted with well over a dozen gay watering holes. Long gone bars with names like Splash, Rawhide, Champs, and G Lounge were the immobile mobile […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | The Joyce’s program director Aaron Mattocks’ commitment to vernacular dance and live music will be on full display during the run of Sw!ng Out, a two-week dive into Lindy Hop accompanied by Eyal Vilner Big Band. Evita Arce, LaTasha Barnes, Nathan Bugh, and Macy Sullivan join Caleb Teicher in collaborative […]
Spanish choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo, who has been choreographing for more than a decade at companies all over the U.S. and Europe and is now the (very first) resident choreographer at Seattle’s Pacific Northwest Ballet, offers the world premiere of his first solo production, It Starts Now, a “capsule of moments…the feeling of time stretching in […]
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Writing the Apocalypse was a weekly series featuring the poems, essays, and recollections of NYC resident Puma Perl. Then came the vaccine, and hope–and uncertainty. And so, from time to time, Perl will return to continue Writing the Apocalypse. Except for the Noise | TEXT & PHOTOS BY PUMA PERL The rain has stopped Sunlight […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | With great anticipation and some trepidation, we look forward to live dance performances, in Chelsea and beyond. Events are planned, rehearsals are happening, publicity flies through the air—and so does the coronavirus, so whether these shows will actually happen is anybody’s guess. In a spirit of optimism, we offer this preview […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | After a full decade spent operating as an arts collective whose identity was forged by the widely divergent ways of its members, the 70+ artists participating in the 11th Annual Artists’ Open Studios event are rallying behind a single theme meant to celebrate the timeless tenacity of the independent, working artist. […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Acclaimed choreographer Bill T. Jones took over the former Dance Theater Workshop space 10 years ago, and transformed it into New York Live Arts (NYLA). This month he’s celebrating that anniversary as well as the 40th year of his Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. The troupe is headquartered in NYLA’s West 19th […]