It's the longest day of the year, so you should be able to fit Shepard Fairey's exhibit and at least one of the following events in. READING: Tommy Trantino was convicted and sentenced to death in 1964 for the murder of two New Jersey police officers. While doing time, he wrote to Leonard Weinglass, the lawyer who defended the Chicago Seven. From the letters came a book deal, and his stories (along with poetry, drawings......

Everybody wants to be a rock star, perhaps none more ardently than theater folk, some of whom have been prodding the form toward rock since the sixties. Sam Shepard famously insisted that he wanted to be a rock and roll star, not a playwright; recently the likes of theater company Les Freres Corbusier and playwright Adam Rapp (who moonlights in a band) have expressed a sensible desire to tap into the Bowery Ballroom demographic.......

Sam Shepard once declared that he didn't want to be a playwright, he wanted to be a rock and roll star. So the current rock and roll revival of his 1972 play, The Tooth of Crime, would seem to be a perfect match for his ambitions. The play is loosely structured as a Greek tragedy (with unity of time and place and a doomed protagonist) to tell the story of Hoss (Ray Wise), a fading......

READING: KGB Bar's Non-Fiction Night is playing host to the Subway Chronicles - Boris Fishman, Elise Jurka, and Amy Holman are all reading their stories from that anthology, edited by Jaqueline Cangro. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras 7pm // KGB Bar [85 E 4th St] // Free THEATER: Sam Shepard’s The Tooth of Crime originally premiered in 1972, but in 1983 La MaMa brought it to the next level with a now-legendary rock and roll production.......

This week’s repertory options want to take New York moviegoers around the world and back again via the silver screen. But spring has finally sprung like so many daffodils in the new theatrical releases category as well, so there are lots to see all over the city this weekend. Aaron Eckhart, an actor who’s been building his career on playing delightfully dimpled bad guys continues his dastardly trend with the tobacco industry satire, Thank You......

On Sundays Gothamist runs opinion pieces relevant to life in New York and reviews of recent books and performances. The judgments expressed below are entirely those of the author. To get students’ creative juices flowing, writing teachers like to make them build a story around some basic situation or obstacle. “There’s a secret that everyone knows but is not allowed to discuss,” for instance – I have not-so-fond memories of some of my poor attempts......

A week or so ago, Gothamist saw this new play by Ronan Noone at the Irish Arts Centre, and we’ve been mulling it over since. Though Noone’s bio claims an influence of Sam Shepard, it’s impossible not to be reminded of Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman) and what he did with his Leenane trilogy, because The Blowin of Baile Gall is part of a Baile trilogy: the first entry, The Lepers of Baile Baiste, earned......

Gothamist can always get a sense of what shows are crash & burning and which are just plain sizzling by an occasional perusal of the theater tickets for sale/wanted listings on the oh mighty list o Craig. A browse today tells us the following: Billy Crystal is gonna make a killing on his new solo show 700 Sundays. The reviews kicked butt, and here is someone selling a pair for $500 bucks. Ouch, that's steep.......

Failure hurts, so there are a lot of miserable producers right about now, given the abundant number of Broadway shows which have recently posted closing notices. Sunday was the last day for Eve Ensler's The Good Body - we liked it, but it just didn't catch on with the masses. We can see how it wasn't exactly great date night fodder, but couldn't the city's female contingency keep it going a hair longer? On January......