Showing posts with label Theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theatre. Show all posts

Thursday, December 11, 2008

It's WINTUK Baby!!

Just came back from Cirque Du Soleil: Wintuk, and it was frikkin' amazing. I mean like I really believe in magic now. So let me give you a little history, before I start buggin' out on this blog giving you mad details.


Cirque Du Soleil, means Circus of the Sun in French, which makes sense since this is a traveling entertainment group from Canada. Okay that is all the details I will give you, if you wanna find out more, you gotta do like Teyana Taylor says "Google me."


So I went to the show in Madison Square Garden, and I had seats so fookin' close I could smell the Canada on their clothes.



Anyway, yeah the show had acrobates, breakdancing dogs,

Photo Credit: Getty Images

...talking lamposts, trampolines, and bunch of other hot 'ish. They also had a live orchestra playing in the adjacent walls, but they were mostly out of view.
Photo Credit: Getty Images

They even had dude doin' BMX tricks on their bikes, guys on skateboards, and rollerblades.

All in all, the whole point of the show was about a little boy in a city where it didn't snow, so he went to this magic place to find snow, and did (obviously). And at the end, they made it snow in the theatre. It was really a great show, def check it out before it's gone.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Taking Over, or Over Taking???

A play by a Hip-hop writer, about the gentrification in New York City, namely Brooklyn. Need I say more. Well, of course I am going to say more. So here goes...Danny Hoch the brains behind this genius work of theatrical art has created a "one-man show" literally.

Picture Credit: www.berkeleyrep.org
Picture Credit: www.berkeleyrep.org

Picture Credit: www.berkeleyrep.org

This is his first new solo show in 10 years. Hoch is renowned for the landmark shows Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop, Pot Melting; Some People; and Till theBreak of Dawn. That show delt with hardcore issues like AIDS, racism and its intricate link with the criminal-justice system.

Hoch's lastest work "Taking Over" gives voice to everyone from the real estate developer, to the local young man whose family is being kicked out of their apartment, to the hipsters who buy, and those who fit none of the aforementioned categories.

The New York Times stated "Mr. Hoch said, many upper-middle-class audience members told him they felt excluded or alienated while watching the show, particularly when the more hostile characters were onstage. 'And my response to that is: That is a good thing embrace that, because that is what all of my characters who are getting displaced are feeling.' "

All I know is this is a must see:

WHERE: The Public Theater / 425 Lafayette St / New York, NY 10003
WHEN: November 6 – December 14, 2008
HOW MUCH: $20 - $70
TIX & INFO: 212.967.7555 / publictheater.org