Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Romeo and Juliet is one of the hotter tickets at TBA this year. Nature Theater’s played at TBA before, and the premise of their 2010 offering—a show made up of poorly remembered retellings of Romeo and Juliet—seems to promise an irreverent but accessible approach to the canon. In writing the show, […]
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Review: Tender Forever & Lovers
Ian Goodrich Tender Forever Were it not for force of personality, Melanie Valera’s (AKA Tender Forever) show at the Works Wednesday night would’ve felt more like an Apple commercial. As much as the multi-media performance was a demonstration of what can be done with the stable of toys put forth by Steve Jobs and co., […]
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Review: Radoslaw Rychcik/Stefan Zeromski Theatre
Ian Goodricch Ahem… GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! A more nuanced appraisal, After the Jump! Ian Goodrich *cough cough* There is no solitude in Radoslaw Rychcik/Stefan Zeromski Theatre’s In the Solitude of Cotton Fields. When the curtain opens, flooding the audience with enormous billows of artificial fog, it marks the beginning of one hour of pure, loud, lurid, muscular […]
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Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner
I really love Patrick’s writeup of the Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner show at TBA. An excerpt: Let’s see… The audience was young and very pretty. I do remember that, because I’m not young or pretty and was therefore suffering acute anxiety combined with lust—which always leads me to shame. This makes me want to […]
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Here Are Some Pictures #9. The Works 9.15
The Lovers and Tender Forever. Two great shows. Impossibly lit. Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich The live green-screened Tender Forever Atari Pong Music Video…or is it app craze!?! Either way it was pretty sweet. Ian Goodrich
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Here Are Some Pictures #8. Radoslaw Rychcik/Stefan Zeromski Theatre’s “In the Solitude of Cotton Fields”
Ian Goodrich I have no real idea what was going on, as I had no opportunity to read the super-titles on a regular basis. What I can say is, that literally and/or figuratively they both completely lose it…after the jump. Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich
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The Safest Place and The Girl Chewing Gum
I highly recommend visiting the installations at the Works when there isn’t a performance or a crowd (and it’s free). The magical creepiness of empty hallways with sounds emanating from darkened rooms where strange lights flicker across the wall is an experience in its own right, and one I think best enjoyed alone. I stole […]
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Thursday’s Cheap/Free TBA:10 Picks!
Guantanamo Baywatch at THE WORKS! tonight… We’re getting closer to the end people. But it ain’t over yet. If you’ve ran out of funds or never had any to begin with, never fear! There are plenty of inexpensive ways to get your art on: Hyper Reality – Noontime Chat: Free! The Wooster Group – There […]
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Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner and the Conversation Lags
Ian Goodrich Hey! Art DOES Imitate Life It would have been nice to have some kind of program, or set list, or someone to tell the audience who the fuck we were watching at any given moment. I say this mostly because the first act of the evening’s program was so painful, I’d like to […]
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Lovers! Tonight at the Works
I really dig these guys. I Am the West is a great album; their new album, Dark Light, is growing on me, with the help of the song “Boxer,” which if it exists on the internet I can’t find it because if you google “boxer lovers” you get pictures of puppies. Anyway here’s a video […]
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Hard Edge, Hard Work Puts a Foot Up My Chauvinistic Ass
Kate Gilmore, from Walk This Way I would say I was less than a minute into the film program Hard Edge, Hard Work, which explores the abstract film and video works of women artists, when all of my preconceived notions were unceremoniously shattered by the tastefully high-heel clad foot of Kate Gilmore, kicking the shit […]
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Here Are Some Pictures #7. The Works 9.14
Ian Goodrich Do You Remeber the Geometry? Ian Goodrich Ummm…yeah I got nothin’ Ian Goodrich Woolly Mammoth Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich The Miracles Club Ian Goodrich Ian Goodrich