To someone stepping off a stifling hot 125th Street, the Apollo Theater - cool, dark and empty, as it was on a recent afternoon - felt like hallowed space.
The Living Theater was cool.
"My theater is cool, but it's red.
"She always knew which diners to go to, which movie theater showed cool films, which clubs had good bands".
For the first time in my life, I headed to the movies with no idea of what was playing and not even caring, as long as the theater was cool.
Upon entry into the theater, a cooler full of Pabst Blue Ribbon greets audience members, who are invited to grab a free can or two.
There are enough sprinkled throughout his latest play to keep the temperature in the theater from cooling for long, although this romp through an Americanized version of Russian anomie is more a series of loosely connected set pieces than a cogently put-together play.
Though Balanchine himself was reared in this theater, his comparatively cool ballets have yet to ignite the acclaim granted to more pyrotechnic items on the five-hour gala program.
The cool theater nerds were in the center.
But the partnership yielded just one title, an inexpensively produced clip show called "Classic Cool Theater".
