NOT BY BREAD ALONE  In addition to housing the world’s only professional deaf-blind acting company, Tel Aviv’s Nalaga’at Center is also home to the BlackOut Restaurant (which operates in complete darkness, with blind waiters) and the sign language-only Café Kapish (whose servers are deaf). Through February 3, NYU’s Skirball Center hosts the acting ensemble, the [...]

BY SCOTT STIFFLER  |  More memorable (and intriguing) than 1,787 years’ worth of history lessons, the Founders Festival bills itself as a “Theatrical celebration of the work of the founding fathers…and mothers.” The eighth year of this Metropolitan Playhouse presentation offers eight works (most of them world premieres) by emerging artists — each one performed [...]

  BY MARTIN DENTON  (of nytheatre.com & indietheaternow.com)  |  I am always being asked which shows I’m excited about, especially at the beginning of a season. So here’s a quick roundup of some indie theater I’m looking forward to this winter/spring — mostly because of the artists involved. Once you discovera that a certain playwright, [...]

PARSONS DANCE  Blink and you’ll miss him. That challenge is nothing compared to the pressure on the man tasked with performing David Parsons’ “Caught.” One wrong step, and he’ll miss his target, in this extraordinarily impressive display of timing that uses strobe lights to follow a dancer’s trajectory from planted feet to leaps and bounds [...]

  BARBARA RUDIN’S “CHRISTMAS ON EARTH” Boo-Hooray Gallery extends the holiday season through the middle of the month, with an exhibit comprised of images and ephemera from 1963’s “Christmas on Earth.” Filmed at 56 Ludlow St. (which at the time was occupied by John Cale and Tony Conrad, and later home to Lou Reed and Sterling [...]

Winter season brings musical diversity to Downtown BY SAM SPOKONY  |  If you’re like me, the idea of actually following through on a typical New Year’s resolution has become a meaningless myth. Quit smoking? Meh. Stop eating McDonald’s or go back to the gym? Maybe next year. Make more money? No thanks. I’m good with [...]

AMORE OPERA’S “La Bohème” Amore Opera revisits the production that marked its inaugural season — Puccini’s timeless masterpiece, “La Bohème.” Set in the 1840s, the opera in four acts (which had a little something to do with inspiring a little Broadway smash called “Rent”) concerns a group of bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of [...]

COIL Fest springs, as PS122 stretches its muscles BY SCOTT STIFFLER  |  Cast out of necessity in the role of a nomad determined to use his tribe’s time in exile to refine their mission and expand their territory, Performance Space 122 Artistic Director Vallejo Gantner’s vision for the future would be fully funded if potent [...]

 Lay down your Jackson and you will see… BY FACEBOY, SAINT REVEREND JEN MILLER & SCOTT STIFFLER | Has it really been a year since we liberated a hefty sawbuck from the office supply slice of this fine publication’s A&E budget and tasked two of Downtown’s most resourceful yet cash-starved Art Stars with purchasing decorations, [...]