To compete with the attention-grabbing street performers, theater producers are asking their own street hawkers to dress up, and sometimes take it off.
In the 1900s, reformers used to gather at events called "Chautauquas" to hear storytellers, performers, theater, and music.
Bay Area performers taking theater out of theaters is nothing new, of course — in the late '60s and '70s, thanks to influential countercultural groups like the Diggers and the S.F.
The creators and performers are theater folks making fun of theater folks.
FOR CHILDREN ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College SummerScape 2007, annual performing arts series, through Aug. 19: "Spiegeltent Family Fare," musicians, circus performers and theater for children.
By 1967 the upper level had become the Electric Circus, which mixed light shows, music, circus performers and theater.
Its annual fair, on Greenwich Street between Chambers and Hubert Streets, will include live bands, acrobats, Broadway performers, puppet theater, a life-size chessboard, a kite-making garden and a bubble-making garden.
You can see international performers on theater and opera stages and take your pick from glamourous clubs or cool underground bars.
On a smaller scale, performers predicted, theaters will be reluctant to present wild-animal acts because of the liability involved, and those that do may have to erect barriers between the audience and the stage.
Lee is an accomplished performer and theater actress, and is the lead singer in her group, the Mary Louise Lee Band.
There's is no real description in the English language yet, for the type of performer and theater we practice.
