PRESS:

The 365 Days/365 Plays Festival takes up shop in Brooklyn, by Jerry Portwood (New York Press, January 2007)
Stand amongst the Le Creuset or cop a squat near the rolling pins and KitchenAid appliances and get read to take in a bit of theater. No really. Polybe + Seats, the 5-year-old experimental theater company, is starting out the year by staging seven short plays in unconventional settings--like the Brooklyn Kitchen, a new kitchenware shop in Williamsburg. [MORE]

nytheatre.com review by Komail Aijazuddin, November 3, 2006
"Have you been to the gallery?" Charlotte Salomon asks.
Salomon, a German Jew, was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. Standing before me, in a charming space in Brooklyn, is her personification. The daring company Polybe + Seats is the one responsible for her resurrection in the play The Charlotte Salomon Project, based on her life and art (she had made over 1,300 paintings before she died). It's strange, to say the least, when the protagonist is asking you a question. Get used to it.[MORE]

The Abstract Pact by Charles McNulty (The Village Voice, August 13, 2003)
Gertrude Stein never fails to attract emerging artists to the salon of her pathbreaking imagination. Yet what Stein's devotees need to scrupulously ask themselves is whether their enjoyment stems from the experience of her work or the ideas behind it...[MORE]

Barnard, Columbia Alumni Collaborate to Bring Gertrude Stein's Works to the Stage
As undergraduate theatre students at Barnard, Jessica Brater (BC'00) and Stacey McMath (BC'01, SOA'04), along with their classmates, received hands-on training as producers, directors, designers and stage managers...[MORE]   

Barnard Alumnae's Theater Company Polybe + Seats Performs at Beckman Theatre
Polybe + Seats, a small theater company inspired by Gertrude Stein's ideas and work for the theater, which features recent graduates of Barnard College, will present Careful of Eights ...[MORE]

WRITINGS:   

PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS eds. Sally Oswald and Jordan Harrison
PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS is devoted to reinventing the life of plays on the page. [MORE]

LINKS:

Tender Buttons (the official Gertrude Stein website):
www.tenderbuttons.com

ART New York:
www.offbroadwayonline.com

Fractured Atlas:
www.fracturedatlas.org

The Village Voice:
www.villagevoice.com

UC Davis Gertrude Stein Listserv:
www.tenderbuttons.com/gsonline/timesense/stein_l.html

Hotreview.org:
www.hotreview.org

Mimetic Penguin:
www.mimeticpenguin.wordpress.com

Theater Communications Group:
www.tcg.org

UnionDocs:
www.uniondocs.org

Object Collection:
www.objectcollection.us