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“City Of No Illusions” Takes Refugees To The Border Of Life And Death

Posted by Michael Appler | 16th Feb 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

“City of No Illusions,” a political comedy that stages the modern refugee crisis inside a funeral home.

Pie in the Sky: Eliza Bent Delights With “Bonnie’s Last Flight”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 13th Feb 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America

I follow a strict protocol of attitudinal class warfare when I board airplanes. As I walk proudly...

Truth And “True West”

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 10th Feb 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America

Sam Shepard’s True West has always been a magnet for celebrity hamming, particularly in the role...

Two Bold Shows by Women of Color at Mabou Mines

Posted by Abigail Weil | 9th Feb 2019 | Festivals, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

When I entered the theater at Mabou Mines for Edisa Weeks’ performance of Three Rites: Liberty, my...

China, Liberia, America: A Suite Of Women’s Stories

Posted by Abigail Weil | 7th Feb 2019 | Festivals, New York, Review, Theatre and Film, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

In an intimate performance space in New York’s East Village, a quietly consequential experiment is...

Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Choir Boy,” Fearless and Faithful, Makes Radiant Broadway Debut

Posted by Michael Appler | 4th Feb 2019 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

“Choir Boy” is itself a spiritual whose song, sung triumphantly by the bountiful talent of its leading star, Jeremy Pope, rises from its stage with the same faith and fearlessness of a prayer sung only for the stars.

Gilded in Glitter, How Much Jukebox Inferno Can “The Cher Show” Take?

Posted by Michael Appler | 2nd Feb 2019 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Cher, the Academy, Grammy and Emmy Award winning superstar, could never be contained in a Broadway...

Joseph Keckler’s “Train With No Midnight

Posted by Janelle Lawrence | 26th Jan 2019 | New York, Prototype 2019, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

Walking into the lower theatre at HERE for Train With No Midnight you may have thought you were...

Rise And Shine: “AWAKE!” At The Barrow Group

Posted by Abigail Weil | 20th Jan 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

The mission of AWAKE!, written and directed by K. Lorrel Manning and currently premiering at the...

Molly Lowe And Bertolt Brecht: Making The Familiar Strange

Posted by Taylor L. Ciambra | 19th Jan 2019 | Essay, New York, Theatre and Gender, Transmedia, United States of America

Blurring the lines between the grotesque and the beautiful, the cerebral and the corporeal,...

Touch Me In Duh Righteous: A Fubu “Slave Play” Review

Posted by Jillian Walker | 17th Jan 2019 | New York, Review, United States of America

An audience-sized mirror, a small wooden table with a bowl of fruit, and the lyrics to Rihanna’s...

Identity, Technology, Nostalgia: The Theater Of Ivo Van Hove, Robert Lepage, And The Wooster Group

Posted by Avra Sidiropoulou | 23rd Dec 2018 | Belgium, Canada, Essay, New York, Transmedia, United States of America

In recent theatre practice, attempts have been made and desires expressly voiced–from puppet...

Terrific Power: “St. Kilda” at the So-Fi Festival in NYC

Posted by Abigail Weil | 21st Dec 2018 | Festivals, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Jody Christopherson’s one-woman show St. Kilda, at the So-Fi Festival, gave me one of the...

“Sycorax, Cyber Queen of Qamara”: A Conversation with Joan Kane and Sandra Bargman

Posted by David Vernon | 21st Dec 2018 | Interview, New York, Producing, United States of America

By Playwright Fengar Gael, Sycorax is a character referred to, yet never seen, in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” But, in Fengar Gael’s story, Sycorax has been alive and waiting for 500 years to tell her side of the story.

Ellen Pearlman: Brain Opera, Telematic Performance, And Decoding Dreams

Posted by Irina Yakubovskaya | 15th Dec 2018 | Interview, New York, Theatre and AI, Theatre and Opera, Transmedia, United States of America

Ellen Pearlman is a New York based media artist, curator, writer, critic, and educator. She holds...

“On the Town” and the Long March for Civil Rights in Performance

Posted by Carol J. Oja | 8th Dec 2018 | Essay, Musical Theatre, New York, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

In this blog post, Carol J. Ola, author or Bernstein Meets Broadway: Collaborative Art in a Time...

And Then There Were None: Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play”

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 7th Dec 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

I caught up with The Thanksgiving Play a few days after Thanksgiving. I was in the mood to laugh...

Amazing Grace: The Barrow Group Presents “The Tricky Part”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 6th Dec 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

“Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents told us was good is bad. Sun. Milk. Red meat....

“Chasing The New White Whale”: Neither Fish Nor Fowl

Posted by Abigail Weil | 5th Dec 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Michael Gorman’s latest play Chasing The New White Whale, at La MaMa where he is the Playwright in...

In “The Making of King Kong,” a Hallucinatory Descent Into the American Imagination

Posted by Michael Appler | 3rd Dec 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Claire, though wrapped in the scrappy, eccentric volatility of experimental theater, is a challenging and provoking playwright, smart and admirably critical—hilarious, too.