Hey, who's up for a 12 hour theatrical adaptation of a bleak Dostoevsky novel, in Italian with English supertitles? A lot of people, apparently, if the Times's hype-tastic article about a forthcoming production of The Demons is to be believed. It will be staged on Governors Island just twice in July as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, and the Times predicts that those who pay upwards of $175 for the experience will win the "I-was-there bragging rights that a certain brand of New Yorker finds irresistible." If that's you, well too bad because tickets are already sold out. Oh well. In 2005 we saw Gatz, a brilliant 8 hour adaptation of The Great Gatsby, so we're not sweating it either. more ›

The Royal Shakespeare Company will spend several hundred thousand dollars donated by Ohio State University to construct a full-size replica of their new theater in Stratford-upon-Avon, ship it in pieces to NYC, and assemble it in the Park Avenue Armory's massive Drill Hall, which has 55,000 square feet of uncolumned space. In an unprecedented plan announced today, the company will use the replica to stage five plays in repertory in July and August 2011 as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. (The five plays are Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet and The Winter’s Tale.) more ›

Certain films in the so called canon of film art really do deserve all the praise they can get and (1929) by Salvador Dalì and Luis Buñuel is one of them. If you've never seen this short masterwork, Gothamist can not recommend it enough. Heck, even if you have seen it, it's time to watch it again. more ›

If you have been near Lincoln Center lately (specifically, since July 7th) you may have noticed some large Dr. Suess-esque sculpture art. This is part of the Public Art Funds first major U.S. survey of outdoor art. The sculptures themselves are by Franz West. His 7 recently commissioned sculptures (titled: Franz West: Recent Sculptures) coincides with more ›

">book about kabuki. Check out some sushi via Sushi NYC and NYC Sushi Finder. And Gothamist visited the Lincoln Center Festival last year with a trip on the Angel Project. more ›

Gothamist Goes on The Angel Project
Scavenger hunt as installation art: Gothamist investigates.
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Possibly the coolest thing to do between now and July 27 is go to Deborah Warner's Angel Project, a performance installation in the Lincoln Center Festival. You show up at the Roosevelt Island tram and then you're sent on a scavenger hunt in the city. more ›