When I scheduled my interview with Jerry Lieblich and Paul Lazar"in preparation for the latest run of The Barbarians, Jerry Lieblich's unfurling meditation on rhetoric and power (and the pow…
"Have you been here before?" I heard someone behind me ask, as we climbed the back staircase at Judson Memorial Church. We paused on nearly each stair as the line progressed. "No, I have…
The Suite is by Julia Antinozzi and co-presented by Live Artery | New York Live Arts and Triskelion Arts. Throughout The Suite, a story of requited yet restrained love unfolds between th…
Theo Armstrong describes some cool moves and asks Noa Rui-Piin Weiss and Miranda Brown some silly yet probing questions after seeing !!simon says~~!:));)$$ Presented as part of the Out-FRONT…
In a moment characterized by decay, destruction, and despair, it feels peculiar to find oneself in a place characterized by warmth, communion, and creativity. Out-FRONT! Fest., a week-long p…
 "Suppose beautiful Madeline Harvey" This single phrase, sometimes a question, always invocation, is repeated by three characters. In altering shapes, the words capture the essence of Ob…
A palm resting against each balloon surface, this was a gesture of care, of protection.
For Kate Hamill, the stage is more than a space for spectacle; it's a platform for rewriting history, reclaiming agency, and redefining how we see women in both art and life.
Learning to see Los Angeles through the hype and imagining a new civic dramaturgy.
Dimes Square, technically a microneighborhood of Manhattan between Chinatown and the Lower East Side, is renowned for its particular cultural attributes: an overpopulation of twenty-one-year…
Windows down. Music blasting. The wind in your hair. Exit signs, strange billboards, a succession of identical-looking sleepy little Midwestern towns. A clutch of empty 40s and tequila bottl…
While there is a great intensity that comes with Chaiwshe, there is almost a child-like wonder that dictates her practice.
In one night, you are allowed to experience the character's thoughts and emotions in real time, and truly imitate the feeling of working an entire 9-5 shift.
Last November, after dancing together in Alexa West's Occasion, occasion, occasion at the 2023 Performa Biennial, Amelia Hientzelman asked me if I'd like to do some dramaturgy for her. We sa…
"It couldn't happen here" was the reaction most theater-goers had to the news of the closing of the East Village's The Connelly Theater by the building's landlord: The Roman Catholic Archdio…
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith's Prairie Dawn premiered at Roulette in Brooklyn on November 14th, 2024. This is a Black cis man's interpretation of their work.
"There's that reminder of the essence of what a show can do to people that are not from that world of theatre. It's beautiful."
"When a piece lingers for a few days, you realize it had an effect on you."
Richard: Loops are mankind's greatest invention. [laughs]
Trump's second presidency will change our lives, though the details of how are not yet clear. This was on playwright Jonathan Spector's mind the morning of November 8th ahead of the Broadway…
In the dark, anticipatory hush after the house lights go down, five male performers enter the stage at New York Live Arts and sit in a circle " an ancient configuration for ritual and the pr…
...this radical idea that we take care of our own species, you know? Our own species! When I say it doesn't have to be this way, it really doesn't. It's our choice.
 Dances are rarely historicized. They exist instead as ephemeral events, never repeated exactly as they were once performed. When a piece of dance is staged again in a new context, it ap…
I'd forgotten one more meaning of "free": without cost. Parodoxically, though, freedom, as "Quartiers libres" viscerally illustrates, is expensive.
Through recursion, the same body and mind, guided by the same lived experiences, encounters, and shares, new truths.