Michelle Memran
Europe: Here Is Not Everywhere
By Michelle Memran"Americans travel like they go to Disneyland," I overheard K say in the kitchen. K taught a class on Grimms Fairy Tales at a nearby college in Berlin and was preparing to give a lecture on the American phenomenon of Disney, aka "How Disney destroys everything."
Still Doing It: Coming to a Sex Shop Near You
By Michelle MemranThe year is 1972. The doorbell rings and a boisterous Betty Dodson, nude, answers it. Come on in, she says to the stream of 13 women, aged anywhere between recent Smith grad and New Jersey grandmother, as they enter the large spare living room of her mid-Manhattan apartment.
In Dialogue
Moment to Moment: with Maria Irene Fornes
By Michelle MemranIf angels exist, they surely have not forgotten Maria Irene Fornes. Mother Avant-Garde. Sappho of the Stage. Maria call me Irene Fornes. The Cuban playwright and director, now 72 years old, has been called the greatest and the least acknowledged female playwright of our time.
Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?
Canal Park Playhouses revival of Joe Rolands On the Line
By Michelle Memran
At 6 a.m. on the morning of October 14, as news spread of Mayor Bloombergs intended cleanup of Zuccotti Park, hundreds of union members amassed on the corner of Liberty and Broadway, carrying brooms, buckets, and signs to show their support for the growing grassroots political movement against corporate greed in Manhattan.
Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?
Canal Park Playhouses revival of Joe Rolands On the Line
By Michelle Memran
As weve gone into rehearsal here, the Occupy Wall Street protests have happened almost around the corner, Kipp Osborne, owner of the Canal Park Inn and Playhouse, tells me. We never could have planned such a thing, but its so connected to itits like the forces of society are wanting to hear this play.
ACCORDIONS IN THE ARCTIC: Cynthia Hopkins Sails Ahead
By Michelle MemranOn a Saturday afternoon in Williamsburg, I find Cynthia Hopkins perched on a piano bench in her studio, shuffling through compositions for a special musical celebration shell perform on May 4 at St. Anns Warehouse in DUMBO, what will be the theaters final (non-gala) concert in that space before it moves to nearby Jay Street.
The Last of The Mohican Bohemians (or What Drove Stephen Bottoms to Chronicle the Off-Off Broadway Movement) An article in performance
By Michelle MemranIf there is any action, it takes place primarily in the West Village, mostly around Bleeker and Christopher Streets. The action, if there is any, is centered around the publication of Playing Underground: A Critical History of the 1960s Off-Off Broadway Movement by Stephen J.