Movie blogger Jeffrey Wells counts 12 films about America’s entanglements in the Middle East coming down the pipe this year. It’ll be some feat if even one of them matches the urgency, power and electricity of Iphigenia 2.0, Charle’s Mee’s self-described “sampling” of Euripides’s Iphigenia at Aulis. You may know the essential storyline: Agamemnon’s army is left stranded en route to the Trojan War when the goddess Artemis stifles the wind to punish him for......

All Wear Bowlers playing downtown at Here Arts Center in Soho served as a real reminder to us about the greatness of living in New York and having the ability to seeing something really special in a tiny venue. This is the same venue where Symphonie Fantastique and The Vagina Monologues premiered, and in all wear bowlers, we really wouldn't be surprised if they are cultivating another show destined for bigger things in larger venues.......

Four lesser known cultural institutions were selected to be populate of the redesigned WTC area. Curbed reports:Delivering a slap to the City Opera, WTC redevelopment officials have selected four arts groups to be housed at the site: the Signature Theater Company, the Joyce Theater, the Drawing Center and the Freedom Center. Signature (drama) and Joyce (dance) will share a performance arts building, while Drawing (uh, drawing) and Freedom will cozy up in a cultural building.Gothamist......