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Pilgrims’ Progress: Larissa FastHorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 29th Nov 2018 | Devised Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

The political mantra “Nothing about us without us” is hard to object to immediately–it makes...

Is The New York Theater Scene Serving Disabled Artists And The Disabled Population?

Posted by Madison Parrotta | 29th Nov 2018 | Essay, New York, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

The New York theater scene is often thought of as the pinnacle of progression, where the newest...

Interview With Clara Fernandez-Vara: “Your Spectator Is Also Your Player”

Posted by Ágnes Bakk | 23rd Nov 2018 | Interview, New York, Participatory Theatre, Transmedia, United States of America

Clara Fernandez-Vara is an Associate Arts Professor at New York University. Her background is in...

“OnlyHuman” At Danspace Project

Posted by Abigail Weil | 22nd Nov 2018 | New York, Review, Theatre and Dance, United States of America

In the celebratory cookbook Cake, Maira Kalman writes: “When we lived in Rome we had a party...

Tom Stoppard’s “The Hard Problem” Looks for Humanity in Human Consciousness

Posted by Michael Appler | 20th Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Stoppard has sought to lower the stage into the depths of the human mind, endeavoring to see the theater as a proxy for human consciousness, an outlet whose own bizarre corruptions of life are but well-directed reflections of our own conscious turmoil.

An Interview With Playwright Alexis Roblan

Posted by Grace Power | 18th Nov 2018 | Interview, New York, Playwriting, United States of America

Alexis Roblan graduated from the University of Southern California’s MFA in Dramatic Writing...

Wit’s End: Will Eno’s “Thom Pain”

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 16th Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

“So, a horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, ‘Why the long face?’ And the horse says, ‘I’m...

“The Prom” Is a Celebratory Trumpian Footloose When We Need It Most

Posted by Michael Appler | 15th Nov 2018 | Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Maybe “The Prom’s” greatest success, in all of its glitter and be gay, is a validation that splashy, garish musical comedies, themselves no champion of political correctness, can still be made from scratch. “The Prom,” exceptionally original yet cradled by tradition, is proof that bursting into jazz hands when someone puts you down is still a worthy prescription for joy.

“Daniel’s Husband” At Westside Theatre

Posted by Jack Wernick | 10th Nov 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

A poignant, topical chamber piece for five characters, Daniel’s Husband commences with two gay...

At LCT, “Plot Points In Our Sexual Development” Traces the Edges of Queer Intimacy

Posted by Michael Appler | 8th Nov 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Queer spaces, Miranda Rose Hall suggests, are uniquely suited to plot the points of sexual development, to explore the dynamic, malleable nature of identity. Queer sex not as negotiation or imitation, but as creation and innovation.

“The Ferryman” Steers Us to the Crossroads of Family and Myth, History and Tradition

Posted by Michael Appler | 8th Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Beyond the guises of harvest festivity, more sinister fates are at work. Holy vows have been broken. Betrayals and tragic sin done. Promises not made, innocent slain and wars unwon.

“Torch Song” Breathes New Life, Radiantly Led By Michael Urie

Posted by Michael Appler | 8th Nov 2018 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

You may find that this glorious Broadway revival, led by Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl in the same theater where it opened over 35 years ago, burns a softer flame — no less bright, for sure, but perhaps a bit more tender, lit for a time when a drag queen poised before a Broadway audience, while no less political, is imaginably less avant-garde.

“Eve’s Song” Makes An Ambitious Attempt at Tackling Family and Violence in Black America

Posted by Michael Appler | 7th Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

While Eve’s Song hopes to confront systemic issues of violence and race in America, it looks to do so amidst the microscopic setting of the family table — not a microcosm of these problems but an island that seeks to distance itself from them.

“Rags Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future” – Sci-fi Folk Concert at Ars Nova

Posted by Abigail Weil | 2nd Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

What forces in today’s society will retain their power three hundred years into the future?...

Jonathan Kalb Interviews Himself On Daniel Fish’s “Oklahoma!”

Posted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Nov 2018 | Interview, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Disability, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

Jonathan Kalb: So Jonathan, did you like the show? Jonathan Kalb: Can we come back to that,...

In “Midsummer” The Mobile Unit Delivers a Joyous Celebration of Life and Shakespeare

Posted by Michael Appler | 1st Nov 2018 | New York, Review, United States of America

Joe Papp would be proud had he lived to see what his Mobile Theater had become: a brimming, joyous sanctuary of inclusivity and plurality, of Shakespearean excellence armed with subtle and striking mindfulness, no longer a struggling caravan of the American theater’s earliest pioneers, but a rag-tag group of brilliant players all the same.