St. Anns Warehouse Announces 2011-12 Season Schedule (Karen O, Daniel Kitson, Justin Vivian Bond, Richard Maxwell, Cillian Murphy and More)

St. Ann’s Warehouse 2011-2012 Season The 2011-2012 season schedule for St. Anns Warehouse (the last to be held in its current location) has been announced and it looks pretty exciting. Downtown auteur Richard Maxwell will be directing an adaptation of Eugene O’Neil‘s Glencairn Plays entitled Early Plays, Daniel Kitson is back with a new one…

Spider-Man: Turn Up The Discounts

Though it hasn’t officially “opened” yet, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark recently took a critical drubbing from most of the major theater critics including the New York Times’ own Ben Brantley: …The sheer ineptitude of this show, inspired by the Spider-Man comic books, loses its shock value early. After 15 or 20 minutes, the central…

Glen Hansard Playing City Winery, “Once” Musical Being Planned

The Swell Season at Celebrate Brooklyn (07/30/10) Photo: Geoff Green (more) Glen Hansard will be performing a rare solo show on Feb 2 (Buy Tickets) at the City Winery. Also, as previously mentioned, The Frames frontman will be one of the many artists performing at the big Neil Young at Carnegie Hall tribute on February…

Watch FELA! Live in HD Tonight + More Fela Kuti Reissues

FELA! Live in HD The new London production of FELA! will be broadcast live in HD in theatres nationwide on January 13, 2010 (today). Click here for a listing of theaters closest to you. In other Fela Kuti news, Knitting Factory Records is about to release another set of reissues by the Nigerian aforbeat legend,…

That Championship Season Presale On Now, TKTS Has An iPhone App

That Championship Season From time to time, we here at bumpershine put in a plug or two for the “legitimate theater”, and when I heard about the Broadway revival of That Championship Season starring Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland, I couldn’t resist spilling a little digital ink over it….

Spider-Man Debuts on 60 Minutes and Broadway Tonight!

After numerous delays, several cast changes, multiple injuries and near bankruptcy, the Julie Taymor directed, Bono and Edge composed musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark finally starts previews tonight (Nov 28) on the Great White Way. There will be no official reviews tomorrow, but I’m sure the Broadway boards (and Twitter) will begin chattering starting…