Photo Shoot: Shadows and Light and Set Models Wednesday June 5, 2013 New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza A theme to be explored in an upcoming issue of Chance Magazine is theatre and boxes — in set designs, in conceptual frameworks, in storage, in perception. One component of those … Continue reading
Photo Shoot: Chance and Here Lies Love Friday May 17, 2013 The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street Chance Magazine, discussed by our core staff in excited shouts and earnest whispers over the past year, inspiring articles on shoots in a Yonkers Mansion and the burlesque venue The Box, is now a real thing. Boxes of the first … Continue reading
Lunch Hour NYC June 22, 2012 — February 17, 2013 NYPL Stephen A. Schartzman Building 5th Avenue and 42nd Street D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibit Hall online exhibit On a wintry midday in Midtown in January, after a meeting and before evening theatre adventures, I sidled into a long running exhibit that is … Continue reading
So when I say almost every day that I’m off to the theatre, some may doubt me. I present here events, listed by date, that required me to enter through a door into a theatre for a live performance or discussion on stage or a performance captured on film or an exhibit gallery. A simple attempt … Continue reading
Photo Shoot: Chance and The Box Wednesday August 1, 2012 The Box, 189 Chrystie Street Work continues on the initial issues of Chance, a new art magazine intended to explore the visual possibilities of theatre in its many forms, as well as the artists and craftspeople who make it happen. I wrote in June about a Yonkers photo … Continue reading
Photo Shoot: Chance and Layers of Play Sunday June 24, 2012 Alder Manor, Yonkers, NY A series of meetings inspired by music, enhanced by fellowship, fueled by a love for theatre and respect for the preservation of its ephemeral record lead me to a photo shoot in an empty mansion in Yonkers on a beautiful summer … Continue reading
This is my first full calendar year as a resident of New York City and as a member of the Independent Theater Bloggers Association. I continue to blather on about topics other than live performances on stage here (critics and dramaturgs in discussion, for example, or films of adored stars), but it is live theatre … Continue reading
Cecil Beaton: The New York Years Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue October 25, 2011 — February 20, 2012 exhibit site “I only photograph those I know and admire.” (Cecil Beaton, wall quote) I spend some of my happiest hours in the presence of black and white images. On the movie … Continue reading
In May 2007, in the middle of my four years living in the grand city of Chicago, my life course shifted a bit while walking through the Chicago History Museum in its new building at 1601 N. Clark Street. I spent a fair amount of time at this museum during my years in Chi-town. And, … Continue reading
