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January 25, 2012
Millenium Film Workshop Being Evicted By La Mama E.T.C.
An interesting story out of the East Village tonight: Millenium Film Workshop, the legendary film collective founded by director Ken Jacobs in 1966 (whose Seeking the Monkey King was just screened at Sundance and won an award from the National Society of Film Critics) is being evicted from the build ... More >>
Theater
January 11, 2012
Avant-Garde January! It's Koltes, the TEAM, Toshiki Okada, and, er, Ira Glass
A critical dive into the Under the Radar, Other Forces, and Coil festivals
Theater
July 6, 2011
Good Times, Bad Times
Four critics on the theaters they most like attending. And the ones not so much.
Theater
May 18, 2011
OBIES 2011: Take This Job and Fill It
The theater is missing some major figures. Who'll step up now?
Columns
January 26, 2011
Lesbian Country Star Keeps Her Top On!
Out of Nashville, out in New York
Theater
January 19, 2011
Ellen Stewart (1919-2011)
Remembering the woman who helped invent downtown theater
Blogs
January 19, 2011
This Week in the Voice: Kanye, Kanye, Kanye! And Cee Lo, Too, and the Biebs...
Kanye West dominates the 38th Annual Pazz Jop Critics' Poll as albums winner, with 3250 points and 266 mentions for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, while crowd favorite Cee Lo Green snags singles winner with 187 mentions for "Fuck You." But there's tons more in this week's musical retros ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2011
Ellen Stewart, La MaMa Founder, Has Died at Age 91
Ellen Stewart at La MaMa in 1991 (Jonathan Slaff)Ellen Stewart, 91, universally known as La Mama and acclaimed as one of the formidable figures who shaped the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement, died peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday night. The founder and guiding spirit of Café La MaMa, l ... More >>
Theater
December 29, 2010
Edward Albee, Judith Malina, and the Soul of Off-Broadway
The reopening of the Provincetown Playhouse helps theater (and a critic) look both backward and onward
Blogs
September 28, 2010
Cat-Calling at the Obies! Bad Behavior And Theatre Cliques
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 11, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 24 A series of little bastions By Arthur Sainer The recent Obie award ceremonies, besides seeming to this writer more than faintly anachronistic, opened the door to a moment of considerable ugliness. The dis ... More >>
Theater
November 24, 2009
With Ellen Stewart Ailing, What's La MaMa's Future?
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 11, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 24 A series of little bastions By Arthur Sainer The recent Obie award ceremonies, besides seeming to this writer more than faintly anachronistic, opened the door to a moment of considerable ugliness. The dis ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2009
Clip Job: A Cafe Up in Smoke
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 11, 1965, Vol. X, No. 21Joe Cino's World Goes Up In FlamesBy Michael SmithThe Caffe Cino was destroyed by fire on Ash Wednesday morning. The cafe at 31 Cornelia Street opened in December, 1958, and quickly became important as New York's ... More >>
Theater
June 10, 2009
La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Retells Asclepius
Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesMarch 11, 1965, Vol. X, No. 21Joe Cino's World Goes Up In FlamesBy Michael SmithThe Caffe Cino was destroyed by fire on Ash Wednesday morning. The cafe at 31 Cornelia Street opened in December, 1958, and quickly became important as New York's ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 20, 2009
GENERAL HOSPITAL
How a centaur raised the world's first doctor
News
June 24, 2008
True East: Sam Shepard Returns to New York
The American icon is back in the saddle with a new play at the Public
Theater
December 25, 2007
A Year Is Born
The theater district gets its own Twelfth Night, complete with kings bearing gifts
Theater
May 29, 2007
Tragedy on 4th Street
Well-loved theater classic killed in East Village
Theater
May 10, 2005
Remembrance of Obies Past
Judges from the last five decades pay homage to the productions and artists they'll never forget
Theater
May 3, 2005
Stoned Love
Romping through the Greek pantheon with splashy verve
Theater
April 20, 2004
Memory Songs
Avant-Garde Polish Company Extends Grotowski's Legacy
NYC Life
February 24, 2004
Getting Gilbert Unmarried
The famous librettist, sans Sullivan, is most engaging with a play that's so old it's new again
Theater
July 15, 2003
Joseph Chaikin (1935-2003), Part II
'You Can Make a Fresh Start With Your Final Breath'
NYC Life
April 8, 2003
Listings
'You Can Make a Fresh Start With Your Final Breath'
News
July 9, 2002
The New World Border
International Theater in the Post–9-11 Era
News
March 5, 2002
DCA Agenda: Help Small Groups
Can the New Commissioner Stretch the Dollars Without Bending the Rules?
Theater
May 8, 2001
Theater
Can the New Commissioner Stretch the Dollars Without Bending the Rules?
Specials
July 4, 2000
Letters
Can the New Commissioner Stretch the Dollars Without Bending the Rules?
Theater
October 13, 1998
Millennial Rites
A Greek Director Updates the Eleusinian Mysteries

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