Put Me on Your Pride Plate
HOMO COMICUS Host Bob Montgomery’s long-running showcase of queer, questioning and lavender-friendly stand-up comedy comes — to Gotham Comedy Club — on the first Wednesday of every month. So don’t feel left out just because you missed the ultra-out Pride edition of “Homo Comicus.” Yes, it’s true, you’ve blown that June opportunity to catch [...]
TEA FOR THREE: LADY BIRD, PAT & BETTY
TEA FOR THREE: LADY BIRD, PAT & BETTY Three gold frames hang on the back wall of a room in the White House — where we’re about to meet a trio of first ladies in the waning hours of their reign. There’s no portrait or picture within them…and as the tight, 80-minute “TEA FOR THREE” [...]
Just Do Art! Week of June 12, 2013
SUMMER MUSIC IN CHELSEA The next installment of St. Peter’s Summer Music in Chelsea concert series features an all-Mozart program that nourishes the soul of those in the pews, while raising much-needed funds to benefit the church’s Food Pantry outreach program. Matthew Oberstein will conduct the New Amsterdam Summer Orchestra, with violinist Jiwon Evelyn Kwark [...]
Brick Up Your Ears
Brooklyn theater hosts festival of sound design BY TOM TENNEY | The Brick Theater produces a lot of festivals — it’s kind of their thing. But festivals at the Williamsburg experimental venue aren’t your garden-variety observances of artist or genre: they’ve become the theater’s way of exploring aesthetic and cultural intersections. Sure, some of the [...]
Busy Planet
‘Connections’ kicks off summer theater fest season BY MARTIN DENTON (of nytheatre.com and indietheaternow.com) | New York City’s busy summer theater festival season kicks off on May 29 with Planet Connections, a four-week celebration of independent theater and social consciousness that is now in its fifth year. Its official moniker is “Planet Connections Theatre Festivity” [...]
The Downtown Diversity of Jazz and Indie
Avant-garde, acoustic, other sounds make the coming months rock and swing BY SAM SPOKONY | Whenever the seasons change, it’s like I’m seeing everything for the first time…again. Yes, maybe I could chalk that up to some rapid diminishment of long-term memory — a possible result of all those things I may or may not [...]
Buhmann on Art
Our critic’s top gallery picks ELENA SISTO: BETWEEN THE SILVER LIGHT AND ORANGE SHADOW Sisto’s first solo show with the gallery serves as the final venue for the traveling museum exhibition of the same title. For the last three years, Sisto’s paintings have explored the formative years of young women artists. Most show three-quarter profiles [...]
Concert celebrates 50 years of Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
Album’s anniversary feted by its contemporaries BY MICHAEL LYDON | Fifty years ago this month, May 1963, Columbia Records released Bob Dylan’s second album: “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.” Dylan had come to New York only two years before and, like countless young singers, actors, dancers, artists and writers before and since, he was bound and [...]
Rhyme Machine
Kid Lucky and La MaMa celebrate ‘the art of human noise’ BY TOM TENNEY | In a 1913 letter to the composer Francesco Balilla Pratella, Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo declared, “The variety of noises is infinite…today we have perhaps a thousand different machines, and can distinguish a thousand different noises, tomorrow, as new machines multiply, [...]
Opera in 3-D
BY NORMAN WEIL | The 2012-2013 Metropolitan Opera season is well under way. There are some special personal points of interest. Mozart’s La Clemenza Di Tito is being revived with Barbara Frittoli, the preeminent soprano interpreter of Mozart and Verdi.She also stars in Verdi’s Don Carlo with two other operatic luminaries, Ramon Vargas and Ferrucio [...]
