“Ajijaak On Turtle Island”: New York Stories Old And New
On a recent Sunday afternoon, at the New Victory Theater, timelines collided. The New Vic, founded...
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Abigail Weil
Tears of a Clown: “American Juggalo”
What is a juggalo? Let me think for a second…Oh! He gets butt-naked and then he walks through the...
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Meshuggah, Nein? “Fiddler” In Yiddish
In 2004, Gwen Stefani, lately of the band No Doubt, released a song called Rich Girl which sampled...
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Pie in the Sky: Eliza Bent Delights With “Bonnie’s Last Flight”
I follow a strict protocol of attitudinal class warfare when I board airplanes. As I walk proudly...
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Two Bold Shows by Women of Color at Mabou Mines
When I entered the theater at Mabou Mines for Edisa Weeks’ performance of Three Rites: Liberty, my...
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China, Liberia, America: A Suite Of Women’s Stories
In an intimate performance space in New York’s East Village, a quietly consequential experiment is...
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Rise And Shine: “AWAKE!” At The Barrow Group
The mission of AWAKE!, written and directed by K. Lorrel Manning and currently premiering at the...
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Terrific Power: “St. Kilda” at the So-Fi Festival in NYC
Jody Christopherson’s one-woman show St. Kilda, at the So-Fi Festival, gave me one of the...
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Amazing Grace: The Barrow Group Presents “The Tricky Part”
“Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents told us was good is bad. Sun. Milk. Red meat....
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“Chasing The New White Whale”: Neither Fish Nor Fowl
Michael Gorman’s latest play Chasing The New White Whale, at La MaMa where he is the Playwright in...
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Pilgrims’ Progress: Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play”
The political mantra “Nothing about us without us” is hard to object to immediately–it makes...
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“OnlyHuman” At Danspace Project
In the celebratory cookbook Cake, Maira Kalman writes: “When we lived in Rome we had a party...
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“Rags Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future” – Sci-fi Folk Concert at Ars Nova
What forces in today’s society will retain their power three hundred years into the future?...
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“Measure For Measure”: Shakespeare’s #MeToo Moment
Cheek by Jowl’s production of Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure, performed in Russian by actors...
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