Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'thomasbartlett'
January 22, 2008
THEATER: We saw Fiona Shaw in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days on Saturday and highly recommend it. Shaw is mesmerizing in her performance as Winnie, crystallizing in her 90-minute virtuoso performance all the desperation, self-delusion and absurdity of an entire lifetime. (Her little-seen costar Tim Potter is also a hoot as Willie.) The production is as bitterly funny as it is affecting, and, as a metaphor, the blasted landscape that devours Winnie is as potent as......
Continue Reading "Pencil This In"October 15, 2007
MOVIE: The monthly "Monday Nights with Oscar" screens teenage screamfest Carrie tonight. Was anything redacted from this Brian DePalma flick? Ask him yourself, he'll be on hand to discuss the 1976 classic he directed. 7:30pm // Academy Theater [111 E 59th St] // $5 THEATER: Theater group New Georges primarily produces new work by female playwrights; their current production is Good Heif by Maggie Smith. Set in a “hot, dry landscape”, it probes the twisted......
Continue Reading "Pencil This In"March 1, 2006
Doveman is: thomas bartlett--voice, piano, wurlitzer, pump organ, harmoniumsam amidon--banjo, guitardougie bowne--drums, guitarjacob danziger--electronics, violinshahzad ismaily--drums, guitar Shhhh. Doveman's self-described "lamp-rock" is the quietest music you can hear in a New York rock club these days. Their album has gotten raves by the press, but it is their live show that left us with our jaw on the floor. We first saw them play at, well, our own Movable Hype 4.0 and was awed......
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