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 […]
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.
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Park Church Co-Op Exhibition Highlights Female Voices this Holy Week
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 […]
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Peace, Love, and Dopeness in The Bushwick Starr’s New Spaceship Spectacular
“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, […]
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Thursday Spotlight: The Cosmopolitan Yet Hyperlocal MRToll
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 […]
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“Dandy Be Good” Offers Sizzling Tales in Bitter Weather
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 […]
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Activists Are Real? See For Yourself in The Buswick Starr’s New Comedy, “Cute Activist”
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 […]
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New Office Satire “R&D” Comes to The Keep January 11-13
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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Essay: Gee vs. Elle, A Tale of Two Subways
Gee’s been in her older sister’s shadow for a while. Like, since 1933. She heard legend of Elle’s flapper-filled carts and smooth shuttling of partiers from soirée to soirée, borough […]
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Standards Manual in Greenpoint Finds Success in Reissuing Relics
“We had a hint there might be an interest in this book.” That hint was raising over $800,000 on Kickstarter to reissue the New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards […]
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Heather Christian Unleashes a Ravishing Tour de Force in The Bushwick Starr’s “Animal Wisdom”
The richest musical score this season might not be found on Broadway. To add to its allure, it’s created by a “migraine-suffering musician who talks to dead people.” It’s a […]