PNB's 2011 Season Finale
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Or, The Happening on Pill Hill.
There's the old theater maxim about breaking through the fourth wall to pierce the boundary between performer and audience. The Degenerate Art Ensemble's roving, multi-venue piece "Red Shoes" pulls a host of tricks out of the bag, just about everything except a whi...
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If you haven't seen Mike Daisey perform yet, you need to do so at your earliest convenience; if not this time around then certainly the next. Theater-wise, he's a direct descendant of the rambling but razor-sharp monologist Spalding Grey, and perhaps Eric Bogosian as well. These practitioners were...
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Light in Darkness at Western Bridge through April 30, 2011
by Adriana Grant
Painting and photography often claim to be about light. The current exhibit at Western Bridge takes this idea to its literal end, in an exhibit featuring light bulbs, neon tubing, and the flash of sunlight throug...
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There is perhaps no notion more devalued in the art world today than that of the artist as shaman. For centuries artists have inhabited the role and continued to re-create it as they sought to establish and maintain authority in an ever-changing world. In more recent times, this has meant explorin...
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