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 I spent the two hours after leaving Honeyland thinking about how it could be rewritten into a passable show. It was a frustrating task. What should one do with a musical whose surface g…
The open-ended question lingered throughout the next hour as Dorvillier shifted between stillness and barely controlled, sprawling movements. What if I tried this? What if this has happened …
 The 'Cellino v. Barnes' play ads have been almost as inescapable as their real-life inspirations in recent months. Facebook and Instagram have become virtual billboards with plastered a…
A dissonant electronic score blares along. The no-holding-back moves highlight the untamed and unrestrained nature of the virtual sphere, where everything is performed, and everyone is expos…
Who is theater for? Where and how does theater speak for, from and to the margins, the marginalized, the forcibly displaced, the intentionally erased?
One by one, they collapse, until all that's left is the sound of the metronome, a painful reminder that time will inevitably run out for each of us, even for those with the most endurance.
They dropped to the ground, out of view for anyone sitting at the center of the audience circle, and they rippled back up again. Then, almost unexpectedly, they were in the audience. They fe…
As an artist, I can always give space or voice to something that I want people to be thinking about. The humanity of Ukrainians is one of the things I want people to be thinking about.
"For this piece, I have not produced anything new," he says as the show draws to an end. He didn't need to.
An appropriately multi-modal effort towards dialogue about Yanira Castro's Exorcism = Liberation, a massive public art project that began in July and continues until election day.Â
Few things make you feel as lucky to live in New York as being around artists at the beginning of their careers. This is certainly the case with ELEGIE, a nascent theater company founded thi…
The subtle, subversive brilliance of Back to Back Theatre's "The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes" at REDCAT
Matthew Freeman, like most New York City creatives, has a day job. The award-winning playwright, who premiered his latest play, The Ask, in early September, spends his time out of the theate…
The audience sits on sand while an artist simulates giving birth. Each one of their limbs dunked in a separate bucket of water, jutted in a prone crabwalk position, they declare that it is n…
Recently, the playwright Diana Ly and I spoke about her philosophical, funny, tender, deeply felt, "medieval miniature" (Helen Shaw, The New Yorker) play Sex and the Abbey, which runs at The…
Purchase tickets to Ian Reid's Heaven is a Place in the Sky, running September 3-8 at The Tank! Friends premiered almost 30 years ago exactly, on September 22nd, 1994. Its omnipresence is we…
 Playwright Sophie McIntosh's latest play, Cunnicularii, which ran for two weeks in July at Chelsea's Alchemical Studios, centers on the seldom discussed 'fourth trimester'" the time bet…
You " just you " walk into an empty space. The only thing visible is a note with a phone number on it, and when the voice on the other line picks up, it asks you to acknowledge that you are …
One of the miraculous things about New York City is how much goes on without your ever knowing about it. Every day a piece of art is made, a performance is rehearsed and mounted, or a writer…
In SALT, a semi-interactive dance-theater work by Los Angeles-based Volta Collective, director-choreographer Mamie Green and writers Sammy Loren and Ellington Wells take on Euripides's Medea…
 The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, based out of a loft in Greenpoint, is known for shows that tread the line of intellectualism and indulgence. Playwright and director Matthew Ga…
Through their inner-experience, we see that the women's profound losses and fears are surrounded by decidedly mundane and glancing frustrations - the very kind that eat away at all of our se…
Kazakhstan's ORTA Collective presented Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector at La MaMa ETC in association with CultureHub.
 Some performances can bring back the dead. Through references and recordings, through revivals and reenactments, they channel the spirit of the artists and choreography they cite and ca…
 Mur shows up at the Murray Hill coffee shop in an outfit streaked with multicolored paint and a gift for me still drying in their hand. The performance artist is best known for their mu…
