It’s been a little over a year since the epic flame out of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ relationship. Along with a lot of tabloid fodder, their hyper scrutinized love story provided a fitting cultural checkpoint, falling smack in the center of the Venn diagram for our celebrity obsession, our fear of oligarchical institutions, and our need to dissect these things via social media. Arriving … Continue reading FRINGENYC REVIEW: THE TOMKAT PROJECT
Five plays in two days? It must be time for the New York Fringe Festival. Some of the best shows I’ve seen in New York have been part of the Fringe: Pulp Shakespeare, which adapted Pulp Fiction into an iambic pentameter Shakespeare play, Theater of the Arcade, which mashed-up 80’s video game icons with the signature styles of famous playwrights, and Invader? I Hardly Know … Continue reading FRINGENYC 2013 PRE-GAME
On July 31, 2013 Dr. Geoff Klock and Mitch Montgomery met for a SPOILER-FILLED discussion about The Wolverine. The meeting was convened atop a bullet train speeding through Japan at 300 miles per hour, but portions also took place in the arty dreamspace where life, death and giant fucking samurai robots converge. These are the minutes of that discussion. Mr. Montgomery and Dr. Klock called the … Continue reading THE KLOCK MINUTES: THE WOLVERINE
Fox has put together a killer viral website for the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past movie. This sleek, surely Windows 8-inspired website is for Trask Industries, the company responsible for building the giant mutant hunting Sentinel robots. Check out this video: At first I was hesitant about Brian Singer coming back on to direct this movie, which is technically the sequel to Matthew Vaughn’s spectacular swinging … Continue reading THE TRASK INDUSTRIES WEBSITE
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My roommate from college is a video game designer now, but he was always a big video game guy. Back in the days of Ramen Noodles, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, we used a kind of shorthand. Whenever one of us would have to call our parents for money, we’d express relief later by saying, “my meter was … Continue reading REVIEW: LIGATURE MARKS
I didn’t intend to do a Pre-Game for Gideon Productions’ Ligature Marks, which is being presented as part of the Brick’s Game Play Festival, but my scheduling got crossed up and I found myself with an extra week to think about it beforehand. Also helpful: playwright Mac Rogers posted a couple of blog entries on the Gideon Website that locate this new play as a kind … Continue reading LIGATURE MARKS PRE-GAME
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Ever stumble across an old photo that you don’t recognize and wonder where it came from? Who might have taken it? What their story could have been? Admit it: we’re all of us guilty of a little voyeuristic curiosity. Whether your sneaky instincts are fueled by a need for juicy gossip or anthropology, the Story Gym puts them to work in The Photo Album, a … Continue reading REVIEW: THE PHOTO ALBUM
This week, I will be covering two shows in The Brick Theater’s Game Play Festival. Not much to Pre-Game, but I did want to get a few things down before posting reviews later this week. This is the fifth year of the Festival, which highlights works that live at the crossroads of video gaming and performing arts, and I am embarrassed to say this is the first … Continue reading GAME PLAY FESTIVAL PRE-GAME (Bonus Round)
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