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“Gary” Isn’t Queer Enough

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 26th May 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

The critical responses to Taylor Mac’s debut, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, have been...

“The Last Day of the Sun” at In Scena

Posted by Marcina Zaccaria | 20th May 2019 | Festivals, Italy, New York, News

The In Scena Festival is an ambitious undertaking. Presenting work each year by Italian artists,...

Transcending Michael Chekhov From the Classroom to the Stage

Posted by Timothy Allen | 17th May 2019 | Acting, Essay, New York, United States of America

Of the many precepts in developing a work for the stage, commonly method acting can be of the...

Retro Productions’ “Mary, Mary”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 16th May 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

The makeover story arc is a time-honored Hollywood tradition. Audrey Hepburn made several (Funny...

What Schreck’s Endings Mean To Me

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th May 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Lately, whenever people ask for advice on what theater to see in New York, the show I’ve mentioned...

Lola Arias: “Minefield”

Posted by Jan Michael Hanvik | 5th May 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America

Argentina And England Meet Again, More Or Less Peacefully, on the NYU Skirball Stage: North...

Susan Stein’s “Etty”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 4th May 2019 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America

In 1942, responding to the announcement that people of Japanese ancestry on the American west...

Duchampian Theater: “Paul Swan is Dead and Gone”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 3rd May 2019 | Immersive Theatre, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Let Paul Swan seduce you. Why wouldn’t you? He is, after all, the most beautiful man in the world....

Bowled Over: Suzan-Lori Parks’ “White Noise”

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 3rd May 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America

Suzan-Lori Parks has written a dark and disturbing allegory about the seemingly impossible dream...

Theatre Of The Real And Embracing The Politics Of The Current Moment: Lee Hall And Ivo van Hove’s “Network”

Posted by Lucas Kernan | 27th Apr 2019 | Belgium, New York, Review, United States of America

“Man can change the world with bayonet and with science, but only art can renew it, in play, in...

Fiona Shaw Performs “The Waste Land” In Madison Square Park

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 20th Apr 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America

At the risk of throwing a wrench in your schedule, you really do have to drop everything (for the...

On Broadway, “Burn This” Singes the Frayed Nerves of 20th Century Romance

Posted by Michael Appler | 19th Apr 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America

“I’m being pillaged and raped. I’m being pillaged and I’m being raped. And I don’t like it,” says...

World Premiere of Georgina Escobar’s “Then They Forgot About The Rest” Delivers Frontier Futura Funk

Posted by Trevor Boffone | 19th Apr 2019 | New York, United States of America

What lengths would you go to forget about the greatest pain of your life? Losing a child, a...

Necromancers of the Public Domain: Art Both Free and Liberating

Posted by Abigail Weil | 17th Apr 2019 | Design, Devised Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, Review

In 1919, following the devastation of the First World War, a movement arose to aid in the...

Finding Leonardo

Posted by AeRhee Lee | 17th Apr 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Words that should mean something were thrown across the stage as a light beam, giving a glimpse of hope that somehow, music or singer will communicate a genius who saw ugliness in his fellow human yet wanted to please, to serve them, who wrote he was never tired of serving, pleasing.No, that did not happen.