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A dominating thread of grief and healing wound its way through La MaMa Moves! 2021 and most of the artists brought song and storytelling into a festival that, as curator Nicky Paraiso acknow…
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…
On Friday, a battle against nightmares. On Saturday, the struggle to accomplish one basic task. On Sunday, a dinosaur trying to jump-rope. And on Sunday, the crushing weight of depression.
Live art is still here, and as Shelley understood two centuries ago, it will remain alive for as long as we do.
PASSAGE THRU feels like stepping through a portal, a fable we get to participate in alongside the performers.
Edward Einhorn has gamified independent theater producing, in a fun but remarkable educational exercise is demystifying just what it takes to make a play
Elliot spent his career looking for the meaning of this elusive concept [of dramaturgy], and with the following we attempt to honor him and continue his quest by articulating what Elliot's d…
I hope the more arts workers and others share these stories, the more clear and obvious the focus on change becomes. "Emily Johnson
Fact and fiction, inseparable, blur and tease. Cut to disco ball, still swinging. Slow down and watch the air sparkle.
Misha "sees" in multiple dimensions, as all great directors do, and through multiple worldviews, too, as an artist whose work is informed by being Bengali, queer, and an immigrant.
Created and performed by Holly Sass and Jonathan Matthews / BREAKTIME
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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 …
And then, time reversed itself.
We sit like middle schoolers at lunch, cliques separated by social barriers. People chat. "Did you get the job?" "The one at TikTok? No, it was a no. They said they're on a hiring freeze."
Black Dance Stories is exactly what it sounds like and precisely what we need right now. It's a distillation of insightful moments in post-performance talkbacks spliced with casual conversat…
Black Dance Stories is exactly what it sounds like and precisely what we need right now. It's a distillation of insightful moments in post-performance talkbacks spliced with casual conversat…
The timeless, classic Cubana Rican performance artist stand-up comic Marga Gomez leans into her fears and at large: the pitfalls of friendship and failed perseverance that bog down all of hu…
Re-examining the words these artists shared with me about the show on March 7, I was struck by the resonance of their work in the liminal fever dream that is our current reality. At this unc…
2:10 p.m. A quick update"the organizers of the Howlround panel this evening have also launched an online resource, COVID-19 Freelance Artist Resources, containing important information fo…
Documenting the performances affected by COVID-19
so much of how I felt about my body, so much of how I felt about like girlhood as a collective, everything that I felt about femaleness, came from the choir room
Coop seeks to remind us that we are here, together, and that "the piles of things we've forgotten" are scattered everywhere around us.
At the time I was obsessed with the chickens who can beat humans at tic tac toe in casinos.
