87 stories by "Dan O'Neil"
the female golem as child rang true to me as I questioned my own creative potential
SUPERSTITIONS inhabits a world that relies on the use of language, strangeness, incongruities that are made congruous at unexpected times throughout.
In PREPAREDNESS, a mandatory HR session threatens the survival of a college theater department.
Somehow, it made perfect sense that we did it during a global pandemic. I think we created something that does three things; captures our current reality, comments on the future, and will ho…
I think all women and femme people have a complicated relationship with the kitchen, because patriarchy has told us it's our "proper place," so the kitchen is never a neutral space. It's…
Eliza Bent is about as close to a recognizable brand as you can get in downtown theater land (I say this in a good way) - she has a specific and winning skewed sensibility and a …
Ethan Lipton's enjoyable Western has some fuzziness around the edges that made our critic think about the films of Jim Jarmusch. Dan O'Neil reviews.
The post Review: Tumacho at the Connelly…
All those toxic names on our money, our buildings, even our clothing. How they got there, and what it might mean to strip them of their meaning and power.
The made-up movie feels like one of those sweeping international melodramas with lots of expansive cinematography. In the minds of it creators, it's an epic-length narrative replete with mul…
It's about how we try to use stories to explain things that we otherwise can't explain, and how sometimes even those stories don't do the work for us. How do we keep doing the work after the…
We lean in, unable to control our own desire to be persuaded, even as we know that this is a play, this is not true, this is just another gesture in a world full of them
It's less an interview and more a listening circle " if you are comfortable talking in front of a group, you'll be just fine at it
If you can say one thing, and only one thing, about Harris's body of work thus far, it's that it certainly seems to incite conversation.
even if death is on everyone's menu, lurking somewhere after dessert, this evening, we survived
I went in with this insane piece, this musical phantasmagoria island site-specific thing -- and came out with my most, sort of, small quiet piece I've ever made that really relies upon, for …
It's not always clear what we're looking at, but perhaps Henry is tearing down the house, family, and narrative form itself with hope alongside rage.
Their arguments, even when hate-filled, are lucidly formed and difficult to penetrate. There's a weird thrill of uncomfortable relief when we find ourselves half-agreeing with them.
It's the concept of being brave and having a safe space that is safe enough that you can feel brave -- because it takes bravery to have those conversations that you know will be difficult, w…
You feel, given the virtuosity and care demonstrated onstage, that you owe this much. You can carry all this. If you let it fall, it'll break the spell. Don't spill the water.
Donovan builds a tranquil place effortlessly, and then creates darkness within the negative (theatrical) space around it, using it as atmospheric pressure to hold the memory in place.
You can get close to truth but you can't ever - in my opinion - I don't think any story is ever true.
If life is a race, all the characters here are lagging behind the leader, just hoping to keep up and find space to breath amidst the density of inevitable heartbreak that comes along with li…
I'm not sure I would call Mrs. Murray's Menagerie a play, as such, if only because a play suggests an exterior blueprint which is then built or enacted by a group of performers and designers…
through sharing, repeating, layering, and rephrasing, the company finds a way to both underline and subvert the brutality without explicitly pointing at it.
It's not so much a communing with the dead as an un-containing of the self, casting meaning into the void, hoping perhaps to receive some echo of that meaning back, in the shape of a hug, or…
