Beast Visit is a Beauty
Ever since the quarantine began, a joke has been circulating throughout critical discourse—ok, on...
Read MoreAbigail Weil recently completed a PhD in Harvard's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures where she focused on twentieth-century Czech prose. In addition to drama and literature, Abigail's interests include the grotesque, food and food writing, magazine culture, queer and feminist theory, and mystifications. She is currently working on a book about Jaroslav Hašek.
Posted by Abigail Weil | 26th Aug 2020 | Review, United States of America
Ever since the quarantine began, a joke has been circulating throughout critical discourse—ok, on...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 15th Aug 2020 | New York, Review, Transmedia, United States of America
I’ve never not gotten lost in Green-Wood Cemetery. One of the oldest landscaped cemeteries in...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 6th Mar 2020 | Design, Japan, New York, Review, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
Suicide Forest, written by and starring Haruna Lee is a trippy meditation on the extremes of...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 27th Feb 2020 | New York, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America
To find Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec, you will first enter through the wrong door. The production is...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 26th Jan 2020 | Adaptation, New York, Prototype 2020, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
Two embarrassing conditions unsettled me at the top of Ellen West, the new opera by Ricky Ian...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 16th Jan 2020 | Dramaturgy, New York, Prototype 2020, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Opera, Theatre and Religion, United States of America
What are the first words you think of when you hear the name Mary Magdalene? Prostitute? Saved?...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 15th Dec 2019 | New York, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Age, Transmedia, United States of America
I’m a thirty-four-year-old straight woman who grew up in the suburbs with an older brother. That...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 15th Nov 2019 | Immersive Theatre, New York, Participatory Theatre, Review
The Black History Museum….According to the United States of America, Smoke & Mirrors...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 8th Nov 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America
It’s June 18, 1983. You’re a waitress in St. Louis who’s all but given up her dreams of achieving...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 24th Oct 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
As someone who has long been fascinated by both of the title characters, I am not sure who Murray...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 20th Oct 2019 | Acting, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Henry Naylor’s Games, now at the SoHo Playhouse, highlights those human activities that are...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 5th Oct 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
I wasn’t prepared for Victor, Edgar Oliver’s latest one-man show, directed by his longtime...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 28th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, Design, New York, Review, Theatre and Film, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
The WaxFactory’s new production Lulu XX is many steps away from originality. The heart of the play...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 19th Sep 2019 | Immersive Theatre, LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, Theatre and Religion, United States of America
The dramatis personae of Novenas for a Lost Hospital is wide-ranging. There are doctors and nurses...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 17th Sep 2019 | Immersive Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Opera, Theatre and Science, Transmedia, United States of America
My instinct is to describe Looking at You, the new opera from librettist Rob Handel, composer...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 14th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Religion, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America
The Talmud, Meta-Phys Ed.’s new play at The DOXSEE Theater in Brooklyn, is ambitious. I mean, just...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 6th Sep 2019 | Adaptation, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Religion, Theatre and Science, United States of America
Felix Starro, a Ma-Yi Theater Company production playing at Theatre Row, is simultaneously...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 22nd Jun 2019 | Czech Republic, Festivals, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Review
The Rudolfinum is the main classical music performance hall in Prague. The house of the Czech...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 21st Jun 2019 | Czech Republic, News, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Puppetry, Theatre for Young Audiences
On the final day of the Prague Quadrennial, I decided to explore the roots of the Czech theatre...
Read MorePosted by Abigail Weil | 20th Jun 2019 | Adaptation, Czech Republic, Festivals, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Theatre and Film, Transmedia
I didn’t know what to expect from the Telekinetic Assault Group. The name was aggressive and the...
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