Jim McDermott
Jim McDermott writes about arts and culture in New York. He also runs Theater Wow, an occasional Substack about the arts.
Spearheaded and run by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center and working with city parks and local community organizations, Down to Earth offered a wide range of free performances in Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan parks.
Streaming didn’t end music sales. E-books didn’t end books. Why, then, has it been different for video?
Emergent City’s non-directive, observational approach exposes the deeper complexity in the Sunset Park community.


