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Posts by Author Archives: Billy McEntee

Billy McEntee has been fortunate to work for arts non-profits in Boston, Denver, Berkeley, and now New York. His writing has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Vanity Fair, American Theatre, HowlRound, Observer, and others. He's usually getting wine at Dandelion or eating cookies at Archestratus.

Thursday Spotlight: Creating Homes for Plants with Not Work Related

by Billy McEntee April 12, 2018April 12, 2018

Not Work Related may boast the Picasso of ceramists: Sarah Hussaini, a mainstay Brooklynite, a pottery virtuoso, and a Greenpointers market favorite. (Catch her and her ceramic wonders at our […]

Weekly Roundup April 3–7: Openings at Cleopatra’s, Lucas Lucas, and More

by Billy McEntee April 3, 2018April 2, 2018

Is spring here yet? Debatable, but at least the snow is already clear, and galleries are opening their doors to let in fresh light, fresh sun, and fresh art. Tons […]

Weekly Roundup March 28–31: Groupmuse and Rooftops and Egg, Oh My!

by Billy McEntee March 28, 2018March 27, 2018

If you’re gonna be a heathen this Holy Week (happy Easter and Passover to those of you do-gooders), might as well indulge in some of the artistic, culinary, and musical […]

Art Roundup 3/23-3/25: Exhibit Openings/Closings, Holy Week, and Comedy

by Billy McEntee March 22, 2018March 21, 2018

Has spring sprung? Based on the umpteenth nor’easter we endured this week, it might not seem so — but the cold is not stopping these galleries from being in full […]

Park Church Co-Op Exhibition Highlights Female Voices this Holy Week

by Billy McEntee March 21, 2018March 20, 2018

We all know the Twelve Apostles’ reactions to Jesus’ resurrection. From joyous celebration to Thomas the Doubter’s human skepticism, you might say their responses were the original OMG. But it […]

Peace, Love, and Dopeness in The Bushwick Starr’s New Spaceship Spectacular

by Billy McEntee February 23, 2018March 16, 2018

“An Unidentified Flying Boombox has landed in Bushwick.” This announcement, along with a pre-show layer of purple haze, are harbingers for Brobot’s cosmic arrival. Cast out of the planet Nubian, […]

Thursday Spotlight: The Cosmopolitan Yet Hyperlocal MRToll

by Billy McEntee February 15, 2018February 14, 2018

He might be the last cowboy in Brooklyn. Like those adventurers of yesteryear, Jamie Toll (that’s MRToll to you) wandered to a new land seeking adventure and opportunity. An immigrant […]

“Dandy Be Good” Offers Sizzling Tales in Bitter Weather

by Billy McEntee January 22, 2018January 22, 2018

Vital Joint’s venue is tiny, but the amount of pre-show audience chitchat was enormous. Most was facilitated by a a suit-donning and larger-than-life Rhinelander (more on him later), but some […]

Activists Are Real? See For Yourself in The Buswick Starr’s New Comedy, “Cute Activist”

by Billy McEntee January 15, 2018January 15, 2018

Milo Cramer has made his Bushwick Starr debut. I’m not just discussing his play, the zippy and zany Cute Activist. Cramer wrote it, but — in a lovely surprise — is also […]

New Office Satire “R&D” Comes to The Keep January 11-13

by Billy McEntee January 4, 2018January 3, 2018

Reversible floor tiles. Sleeve Me Alone. A pencil that’s also jerky. Practical or utterly useless, these are a small handful of the colorful pitches in Brouhaha Theatre Project’s upcoming R&D: a […]

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