On Saturday I found myself cycling through the drizzling rain to The World Financial Center, an office building on the western edge of the former World Trade Center site. The occasion was Lisa D’Amour and Katie Pearl’s astonishing site-specific performance piece, Bird Eye Blue Print, presented in several rooms in an abandoned office for small audiences of 22 at a time. Upon receiving my ticket in the building’s lobby, I was asked to jot down......

Starting tomorrow and running sporadically through October 1st The Playwrights Theater will be staging (pun totally intended) 6 plays, for free, all over the city. With New York as a backdrop, we're pretty sure this is well worth checking out. The settings include two Manhattan parks, Roosevelt Island, a rooftop, a carousel, and DUMBO. The playwrights are all well respected and were hand-picked to create one short play each, using the site of their......