Haruna Lee’s “Suicide Forest”
Suicide Forest, written by and starring Haruna Lee is a trippy meditation on the extremes of...
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New York
Girls to the Front: “Mac Beth” at Hunter Theater Project
Reading dry Shakespeare texts and going to parties at friends’ places seem like quintessential...
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Born Toulouse
To find Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec, you will first enter through the wrong door. The production is...
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“Star Odyssey” at MoMA PS1
The VW Dome at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens is the evocative setting of web-inspired...
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VR as a Narcissistic Medium
Rebecca Rouse is a Professor at the University of Skövde (Sweden), media artist and researcher. VR...
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Movie or Musical? “West Side Story” at The Broadway Theatre
It seems that the classic Broadway musical West Side Story may be getting not one but two film...
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Space Opera in New York City
With a smattering of words, carefully grouped to alert the scholar that collectivism and...
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Druid Shakespeare: “Richard III” – The Voracious Void
A series of questions filled my mind. What was the motivation behind the choice of sets and costumes? In my opinion, the only thing that really worked well set wise was the ever-present void on stage, the grave downstage in which all bodies were thrown in – a constant reminder of death and of Richard’s deeds.
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Static Electricity: Beckett at Under the Radar
“Static” is one of those words from which most artists recoil. It’s typically used for something...
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“Goldberg Variations”
Within moments of the opening bars of Kit Armstrong’s rendering of Bach’s Goldberg...
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Lori Klinger from Rosie’s Theater Kids on Merging Passions and Arts Education
There are angels in New York City who are teaching the arts to kids, and Lori Klinger is one of...
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The Case for “Hadestown”
To escape the mundanity of our own everyday. To revel in the ephemerality of storytelling. To...
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“Ellen West” at The Prototype Festival
Two embarrassing conditions unsettled me at the top of Ellen West, the new opera by Ricky Ian...
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Dollhouse: Innovative New Plays for A Traditional Set Piece
An oddity of this theatrical season to ponder as we bid farewell to 2019: In two current New York...
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Broadway: Does “The Great White Way” Live Up to Its Name?
Ntozake Shange, author of the famous Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide /...
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“Magdalene” at Prototype Festival
What are the first words you think of when you hear the name Mary Magdalene? Prostitute? Saved?...
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Rachel Pickup on Her Role in “London Assurance” at NYC’s Irish Repertory Theatre
Rachel Pickup is currently playing Lady Gay Spanker in London Assurance, written by Dion...
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“Macondo” in New York: Russian Theatre Brings Márquez’s Epic to Life
A thread of life and blood, unconditional love and death, incest and destiny all interconnect in...
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Sven Ratzke In “Where Are We Now?” At La MaMa
The ghost of David Bowie is alive and well and residing in the basement of La MaMa’s...
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Who? Whoo! “Other Than We:”Karen Malpede’s Latest Eco-Feminist Play at La MaMa
Karen Malpede’s plays scream “Pay Attention.” Thus I titled my 2001 New York Times article on I...
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