There's a special type of actor who dwells in New York. Perhaps they've done film work" they're most likely still receiving residuals from Law and Order" but their primary dedication is to t…
Set in the year 2000, flip phones are everywhere in Humpty Dumpty. The two central couples, Hallmark characters with high-power city jobs, spend much of the play walking around desperately w…
Before seeing this performance, I had never heard of gay writer and AIDS activist Paul Monette. Despite living through the AIDS crisis, choreographer Keith A. Thompson hadn't heard of him ei…
Spring is in the air and, amidst the horrors, new productions abound! I caught up with Kelly Bartnik of Artemis is Burning to discuss upcoming previews for The Death of Rasputin, an immersiv…
TRADITION: it's what survives into the next generation, what parents and teachers pass along to their children, and what we find ourselves replicating for better or worse. If the present is …
As it turns out, Stein and Toklas did many things, some of them frightening and problematic, some of them strenuous and beautiful"all of them a legacy worth digging into. Chametzky was wise …
It's very easy to feel small, to feel helpless. But even in the midst of this dark time, we have the capacity to be present with each other, and through caring for each other when we are in …
A few weeks ago I got a gig working the book table at BODY/SHADOW, a Douglas Dunn + Dancers performance at Judson Church. In preparation I perused the books" all penned by Dunn" for sale…
When Deep Blue Sound announced its residence at The Public Theater, the playwrights in my MFA program were thrilled. Their response gave me an inkling as to what kind of playwright Abe Koogl…
 Every American town has some marker that sets it apart from every other American town. I'm not talking about geography, population, values, or even baseball teams, but rather, those qui…
The musical Rent plays an important role not only in the history of American musical theatre, but also in the lives, hearts, and minds of that special class of earnest young people: The Thea…
Imagine being told that what you have just experienced did not actually happen the way you experienced it, that it was actually just a collection of dissonant apparitions created by your own…
Sartre was right when he said that "hell is other people". Nothing can encapsulate the feeling of purgatory like a family vacation at a rented lake house. Sartre's full quote should actually…
I first heard Isabel Monk Cade read her essay My Way"which has since become, through a collaboration with director Joy Donze, a fully-staged solo show" as part of The Dogtown Reading Series …
These haptic qualities enable the audience an imagined point of entry into the onstage sensations, inviting vicarious feeling of the braided hair, the waxiness of plant fronds, the lightness…
If we are to honestly appraise the people's history (those we refer to when we shout "power to the people!"), we must acknowledge the unceasing, if ever-evolving, presence of violence. A sen…
Kaydo knows that theatre is the perfect medium to reflect impermanence, and the specter of death is inside every breath of this play"but Kaydo has a light touch. He lets us listen and find t…
My performance practice has been affectionately described by a mentor as sisyphean"cyclical, futile, pointless and yet entirely necessary. Necessary for what-and-whom? I ask. As puni…
"There he is." Nicky Paraiso is sitting next to me and wants me to look at something on his phone. Ostensibly, we´re here at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery to see a show, the first o…
Language: as much as it lets us express ourselves, also lets us express how trapped we are in the prison of others' buzzwords, binding decrees, and unforgiving commands. We don't give babies…
Earlier this month hours before 'curtain' on a Friday night show at SoHo Playhouse, I chose to brave the 'last chance' lines and attend the Edges of Ailey at The Whitney. What I saw was comp…
In 2011, during the second year of the annual Fire This Time Festival, organizers produced the work of an up-and-coming playwright named Dominique Morriseau. The writer, now known as a MacAr…
In 2024, Talking Band and 600 Highwaymen presented "The Following Evening" at PACNYC. Here are some thoughts after a year's reflection.
Which I think says something meaningful about fantasy; materials become less messy and people become more one-dimensional and places become infinitely reachable and the perfect temperature i…
Like fear, desire can be excessive, often humorous, and represents a valuable state in itself "Â a totality of the sensation in which personal and social histories persist, and new insight…