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Arts Watch: Queer New York International Arts Fest Kicks off on Wednesday
Photo: Untitled Queen, by Stephanie Keith. This Wednesday, the Queer New York International Arts Festival (QNYIAF ) returns to New York for its third year. Abrons Arts Center serves as festival hub and...
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Arts Watch: Edinburgh’s Forest Fringe Microfestival Comes to Abrons
This weekend an Edinburgh Festival Sensation, Forest Fringe, will be transforming the Abrons Arts Center into an experimental, building-wide microfestival for its New York debut. I recently caught up...
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Arts Watch: Talking With Mark Dendy, Prepping to Premiere “Labyrinth” at Abrons
Photo by Marisa @RockPaper. Labyrinth – Heather Christian and Mark Dendy, Matthew Hardy (background) Throughout Mark Dendy’s career, he has steadily defied expectations to work in defined categories....
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Review: War Lesbian’s World Premiere at Dixon Place
Jessica Almasy, Erin Markey, and Kristine Haruna Lee in “War Lesbian.” Photo Credit: Sasha Aleksandra Arutyunova It took almost an hour to see any war in the harunalee company’s new musical, War...
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Review: The Civilians’“Pretty Filthy,” a Musical Take on the Porn Industry
Photo by Richard Termine. I wasn’t expecting a big, jolly, laugh out loud Broadway style musical when I went to see The Civilians’ new show about the porn industry, “Pretty Filthy,” at the Abrons Arts...
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Arts Watch: Here Come the Ecosexuals!
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. Photo by Julian Cash. Montage by Naomi Pitcairn. TLD contributor Robin Schatell spoke with artists/activists Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens about their new...
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Ponydance Trots Into Abrons With “Anybody Waitin’?”
Photo by Leonie McDonagh Starting tomorrow, the highly entertaining Irish dance-theater collective, ponydance, brings its own brand of madcap comedic dance to Abrons Arts Center this week with its...
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Downtown Arts Festivals Kick Off in January
Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and other works by John Bernd, at the American Realness festival, photo by Ian Douglas Editor’s note: This festival roundup is from our...
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Artists in the Time of COVID-19: A Conversation With The Wooster Group’s Kate...
This Lower East Side Artist Spotlight was written by Robin Schatell. What is this…Week 9 or 11? Day 56 or something…since we’ve sheltered-in-place? “New York Tough,” as the Governor said. NY Smart,...
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Reimagining Creative Community in the Time of COVID-19
The Community Fridge at Abrons Arts Center This story was written by Robin Schatell. Everyday I walk past Abrons Arts Center. I live across the street. I see it out my window. Empty. Quiet. Still. It...
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