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Friday, August 5, 2011

Barker: Take a real risk

The theater needs to stop condescending to its audiences and accept that maybe that’s why they’re not showing up as much. Theater also needs to get over its knee-jerk reaction to anything that falls outside the proscenium space and stop writing it off as weird or off-putting and accept that there are other ways to make enjoyable, fun, and engaging theatrical experiences for people. --Jeremy M. Barker, Culturebot

Read more in Barker's What's Good for the Kids Is Good for the Grown-Ups here.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Sapphire and Alexie scheduled for 92Y

Authors Sapphire and Sherman Alexie will share an evening of prose and poetry readings at 92Y.

Monday, November 21, 8pm

Sapphire’s new novel, The Kid, is a sequel to Push, which was adapted into the film Precious in 2009. Her “characteristic intensity mixes with classical as well as experimental forms, excavating dreams, memory and history,” wrote Brenda Shaughnessy. “Expressing the difficult locus where revelation meets revolution is her signature fusion, a fierce combination of confessional and metamorphoses.”

Sherman Alexie’s recent collection of stories and poems, War Dances, won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2010. “Few other contemporary writers seem willing to deal with issues of race, class and sexuality as explicitly as Alexie,” wrote Anthony Swofford. “He never tells the reader how to think; rather, he shows how others think and behave in both flawed and beautiful ways.”

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Kaufman Concert Hall
92nd Street Y
Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan
(directions)

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

The New Black Fest invites you to the opening of Gun Hill Road, the feature debut of 2011 Sundance filmmaker Rashaad Ernesto Green, opening for its commercial premiere in New York City, August 5.

After three years in prison, Enrique (Esai Morales) returns home to the Bronx to find the world he knew has changed. His wife, Angela (Judy Reyes), struggles to hide an emotional affair, and his teenage son, Michael (Harmony Santana), explores a sexual transformation well beyond Enrique's grasp. Writer/director Rashaad Ernesto Green's first feature film is an intricate portrait of a family divided.

Gun Hill Road movie trailer

ANGELIKA FILM CENTER
18 W Houston St, Manhattan (212) 995-2570

AMC EMPIRE 25
234 West 42nd Street, Manhattan (888) 262-4386

AMC BAY PLAZA
2210 Bartow Avenue, Bronx (888) 262-4386

Opening Los Angeles, CA August 12

LAEMMLE'S SUNSET 5, West Hollywood
AMC BROADWAY, Santa Monica
AMC BURBANK TOWN CENTER 8, Burbank
AMC FULLERTON 20, Fullerton
AMC NORWALK 20, Norwalk
REGAL UNIVERSITY 6, Irvine
LAEMMLE'S PLAYHOUSE 7, Pasadena

TICKETS