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Bash'd!: Rap, Now Even Gayer - Had us at "cocksuckaz"

Bash'd! had me at "cocksuckaz." When Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow--two white Canadians who look more like character actors than rappers--strut onto the Zipper stage in off-pink duds to a big, stomping beat and throw down multisyllabic rhymes like...

by ROB KENDT on July 2, 2008
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The Flat Earth Glows - Masochistically marrying New York

HOT!, the annual summer-long queer performance festival, is in its 17th steamy season at Dixon Place, and though its new Chrystie Street digs will be more spacious, nestling into your seat in the tiny second-floor black box at 258 Bowery is half the ...

by Ruth McCann on July 2, 2008
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Palace of the End: Leash Fatigue - Another play featuring Lynndie England

The current Iraq War has produced obvious casualties--some 29,000 U.S. soldiers injured and 4,100 killed, to say nothing of civilian deaths. But playwright Judith Thompson concerns herself with collateral damage: a soldier coerced; a scientist betray...

by Alexis Soloski on July 2, 2008
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Stitching: Mission Abort - A play that should shockbut doesn't

Sew what? asks this drama by Anthony Neilson. The playwright is a proponent of Britain's in-yer-face theater, a naughtily assaultive style that confronts the audience with extreme situations and language. In Stitching, now making its American debut,...

by Alexis Soloski on July 2, 2008
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Celebrating Jerome Robbins and Bidding Damian Woetzel Goodbye - Feast and farewell

It's a pity that Floria Lasky (1923-2007), Jerome Robbins's wise, feisty lawyer and adviser for much of his professional life, couldn't stick around to see the New York City Ballet's Jerome Robbins Celebration (dedicated to her and honoring the chore...

by Deborah Jowitt on July 2, 2008
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Arias With a Twist

After a six-year stint in Cirque du Soleils racy Zumanity in Las Vegas, drag legend Joey Arias makes a triumphant return downtown in the wonderfully bizarre Arias With a Twist. Co-starring a multitude of colorful creatures by director-puppeteer B...

by Angela Ashman on July 2, 2008
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A Perfect Couple

Brooke Bermans last play, Hunting and Gathering, concerned finding an apartment. Her new one,? A Perfect Couple, examines the planning of a wedding. So we can only assume that her next will explore childbearing, and the following will center on nan...

by Alexis Soloski on July 2, 2008
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Miss America

A fusillade of iconography, mesmerizing and mystifying by turns, Split Britches Miss America evokes the hungover mood of the late Bush era, even as the cultural ghosts it tries to exorcise never come entirely into focus. Elegy remains the dominant ...

by John Beer on July 2, 2008
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Michael Stuhlbarg's Hamlet: Jangled Out of Tune - Despite princely moments, this Denmark's a mishmash

It was a balmy night in Central Park, and it must have put me in a ruminative mood. As I wandered back toward the West Side after three-plus hours of Hamlet at the Delacorte, I couldn't help wondering what someone who'd never seen or heard of the pl...

by Michael Feingold on June 24, 2008
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Chatting With John Tiffany - Cocktails with Black Watch and Bacchae director

In the opening moments of the National Theatre of Scotland's production of The Bacchae, Alan Cumming, playing the god Dionysus, descends to the stage in a gold kilt. According to pictures and aghast press reports, as Cumming flutters earthward upsid...

by Alexis Soloski on June 24, 2008
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Edward Hopper, Lonely Guy - Etchings from this Yankee existentialist come to Craig F. Starr

Edward Hopper conveyed the disjointed loneliness of modernity more acutely than any other American artist (or novelist or filmmaker) of his time. In these 13 etchings from 1918 to 1923, a number of which have become icons of Yankee existentialism, i...

by R.C. Baker on June 24, 2008
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Vincent River: No Kitchen, No Sink - Formula only comes alive once in Philip Ridley's mystery

Philip Ridley's new play Vincent River, a kitchen-sink drama without kitchen or sink, has some undeniable strengths. Ridley's text layers the gay-bashing murder at the play's core with dense metaphoric significance, drawing delicate connections betw...

by John Beer on June 17, 2008
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Too Much What-If in Series C - A bumpy ride with a soft landing

Whimsy makes a poor substitute for imagination, but willful caprice can be enough to fuel a one-act play if the playwright has the right sense of proportion for the form's song-like economy. Alas, too many of the one-acts in "Series C" of the Ensembl...

by ROB KENDT on June 17, 2008
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The Film Festival: A Theater Festival Explores the Celluloid Boundary - Stage and screen wrestle it out at the Brick's new fest

Upset that you missed Sundance or Cannes this year? Well, forget the slopes of Utah or the sands of the Riviera, and hop the L train to Williamsburg instead, where the decidedly un-Hollywood Brick Theater is putting on "The Film Festival: A Theater ...

by Garrett Eisler on June 17, 2008
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Elyse Singer and Neil LaBute Take On Prettiness - Two new American plays argue against the 'virtues' of female beauty

Ever since that evening in 1660 when Margaret Hughes mounted the Vere Street stage in London as that "fresh and delicate creature" Desdemona, actresses have provided a chief inducement for a night at the theater. A ravishing face and figure make for...

by Alexis Soloski on June 17, 2008
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Bill Wood's Better Commercial Pictures Took - Wood was no artist. That's what makes him interesting.

The last century marked a period when non-art objects could suddenly became art. Think Marcel Duchamp's readymades (the snow shovel or urinal transformed, by the whim of the artist, into sculpture), or museum collections of African and Oceanic objec...

by Martha Schwendener on June 17, 2008
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Philip Guston: Galumphing Master - Socially conscious drawings evolve at the Morgan Library

Philip Guston's socially conscious 1940s drawings of the downtrodden and their hooded tormentors evolved into searching, tender abstractions in the '50s, spare graphics in the '60s, and galumphing, cartoonish narratives in the '70s. This terrific sh...

by R.C. Baker on June 17, 2008
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Horacio Castellanos Moya Does the Twisted - A Salvadoran novelist's first English translation evokes the work of Thomas Bernhard

Senselessness is the eighth novel by Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya and, remarkably, the first to appear in English. Moya has been hailed as El Salvador's foremost novelist, and Senselessness, published in Spanish in 2004, took only four...

by Jed Lipinski on June 17, 2008
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A G.I.'s Strange War Tale - It's opium-smoking headhunters to the rescue!

On March 4, 1944, after months of triple-digit temperatures in the steamy Burmese jungle--as well as battles against deadly typhus, a 96 percent malaria rate, man-eating tigers, and the endless harangues from the white officers who mercilessly superv...

by Sean Gardiner on June 17, 2008
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Two Big-Name Choreographers Return - Alexei Ratmansky and Twyla Tharp offer up new ballets

If I could weave through all the construction at Lincoln Center and catch only outstanding ballets, cherished moments in ballets, and favorite dancers at both the Met and New York State Theatre, I'd revisit Alexei Ratmansky's Concerto DSCH several t...

by Deborah Jowitt on June 17, 2008