“Love”—A Dissenting View
Alexander Zeldin’s Love— a much-celebrated, quietly confrontational, British-devised piece from...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 2nd Apr 2023 | Devised Theatre, Documentary Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom, United States of America
Alexander Zeldin’s Love— a much-celebrated, quietly confrontational, British-devised piece from...
Read MorePosted by Emily Cordes | 29th Mar 2023 | Documentary Theatre, Interview, New York, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
TRACES is a new devised documentary theater piece presented by the investigative theatre group...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 23rd Mar 2023 | Adaptation, New York, Review, United States of America
It can be difficult to gain contemporary audience for Shakespearean performance. Though the Bard’s...
Read MorePosted by Melissa Denzer | 20th Mar 2023 | Interview, Musical Theatre, New York, United States of America
On March 17, 2023, New York City’s Bedlam hosted the first industry reading of Best Time to Be...
Read MorePosted by Alexander Fatouros | 10th Mar 2023 | Interview, New York, Theatre and Art, Transmedia, United States of America
Creating art that reflects our time, Kat Mustatea is a playwright and technologist whose...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 2nd Mar 2023 | Festivals, New York, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
It has been so challenging to write these reviews of three recent works presented as part of the...
Read MorePosted by Morgan Skolnik | 27th Feb 2023 | Directing, Interview, New York, United States of America
The work of Thalia Ranjbar may be challenging– pushing beyond norms and expectations, but at its...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 22nd Feb 2023 | Devised Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Entering the theatre at HERE Arts, there is already a sense of broken ground. My companion and I...
Read MorePosted by Lisa Monde | 17th Feb 2023 | Interview, Musical Theatre, New York, Producing, United States of America
Dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Broadway musical “The Phantom of the Opera.” It is known...
Read MorePosted by S.E. Gontarski | 13th Feb 2023 | Adaptation, Directing, New York, Review, United States of America
Much of my approach to theatre, to performance, especially, consists in locating and assessing a...
Read MorePosted by Rhiannon Ling | 13th Feb 2023 | Devised Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Only a week after the invasion of Ukraine, three creatives found themselves nestled around a...
Read MorePosted by Jingyi Zhang | 23rd Jan 2023 | Festivals, New York, Prototype 2023, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
A double bill by Irish composer Emma O’Halloran and her uncle, librettist Mark O’Halloran,...
Read MorePosted by Jingyi Zhang | 21st Jan 2023 | Festivals, New York, Prototype 2023, Review, Theatre and Opera, Transmedia, United States of America
Undine is a three-act animated opera composed by Stefanie Janssen and Michaël Brijs. The pandemic...
Read MorePosted by Jingyi Zhang | 20th Jan 2023 | Festivals, New York, Prototype 2023, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
In Our Daughter’s Eyes, composed by Pulitzer prize winning composer Du Yun and librettist Michael...
Read MorePosted by Jingyi Zhang | 17th Jan 2023 | Festivals, New York, Prototype 2023, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
Gelsey Bell’s Morning//Mourning is a quirky, experimental opera that defies categorization. It is...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 12th Jan 2023 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
On a cold November, New York Friday night, when temperatures approached freezing, the shivering audience waiting to experience Albert Camus’ The Fall at the Soho Playhouse checked in at the box office on the upper floor, then...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 10th Jan 2023 | Design, New York, Puppetry, Review, United States of America
The show Lazarus 1972-2022 is difficult to pin down. How can what a thought looks like be...
Read MorePosted by Ademola Bello | 7th Jan 2023 | LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Decolonization, United States of America
The young playwright Jordan E. Cooper deserves kudos for writing the play Ain’t No Mo. He is...
Read MorePosted by Clare Cioffero | 3rd Jan 2023 | New York, Playwriting, Puppetry, South Korea, United States of America
The simplicity of the set was enriched with exquisite lighting design, by Oliver Wason, depicting the starry heavens above, exploding bombs, flocks of butterflies, even projections of characters.
Read MorePosted by Lisa Monde | 19th Dec 2022 | Adaptation, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America
The previews of &Juliet the musical, began October 28th 2022 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre...
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