Superfluities Redux
On culture and theatre, by George Hunka
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007
UPDATE: A listing of shows for the 2008 Under the Radar festival is now available.
I thought I could stay out of it but the Guardian (UK) pulled me back in:
I had been hoping to be the only New York City theatre critic/blogger/writer not to mention the Broadway strike. Call it bloody-mindedness, but there's another reason. My beat, if you could call it that, is downtown theatre, theatre that takes place below 14th Street in Manhattan, several miles to the south of Times Square. And honestly, from my point-of-view, there haven't been hordes of theatre-mad holiday tourists stampeding south to get their American theatre fix, far from the dark marquees of 42nd Street.
And why not? Well, you'll have to click through to find out.
Ironically (and on a brighter note), on this very same day, the Public Theater has issued its press release on their 2008 Under the Radar festival, curated by Mark Russell, and a fine schedule it is: This year's UTR will feature work by Young Jean Lee (Church), the Nature Theatre of Oklahoma (Poetics: A Ballet Brut), Jay Scheib (his Antonioni meditation This Place Is a Desert), and much much more, all for only $15 a pop. Tickets will go on sale 7 December; watch this space and the Public Theater's Under the Radar Web page for more details, sure to be posted there soon. Now that's theatre.
Posted at 12.41 pm in /Miscellaneous
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