Craft of “Downton Abbey” and “Gilded Age” Director, Michael Engler
American television and film director Michael Engler is extraordinarily skilled at both comedies...
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Doulas as Resistance: The Anthropologists’s “axes, herbs and satchels”
Fifteen years ago, The Anthropologists came to be in New York City, a group of devisers born of a...
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Monsters, Mayhem, and Maturation: “The Trouble with Dead Boyfriends” at the Players Theatre
Upon one’s first step into the Players Theatre, one knows exactly what they’re in for. The stage...
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“Notre Dame de Paris”: Frollo’s Inner Struggle. An Exclusive Interview with Daniel Lavoie
It has become a beautiful annual tradition: welcoming the musical Notre Dame de Paris at New York...
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Beauty and Wisdom for Who: Disability in Simon McBurney’s “Die Zauberflöte”
The first notes of Simon McBurney’s production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) which...
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“KPOP” On Broadway: A Multisensory Feast of HEUNG
KPOP is a new musical, with a book by Jason Kim and music by Helen Park and Max Vernon. It...
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Bombastic Intimacies: Sophie McIntosh’s “cityscrape”
Empty Gregory’s coffee cups and PureLeaf bottles reside on a table, Trader Joe’s bags are against...
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Robert Patrick, Playwright, Has Passed Away
Robert Patrick, playwright, passed away on April 23, 2023, at his home in Los Angeles. He was 85....
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Drag Queens in Musical Theatre
Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first publication of the play by Jean Poiret La Cage Aux...
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Arden of Faversham: A True Crime Thriller
A small boat sails the stage while a trap door serves as the river depths for one of the characters to sink beneath the waves. And as the story reaches its inevitable conclusion, a snowstorm complete with snow drifts – an element taken directly from the origin story of Arden.
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“Love”—A Dissenting View
Alexander Zeldin’s Love— a much-celebrated, quietly confrontational, British-devised piece from...
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“TRACES:” An Interview With Co-Creators James Clements and Sam Hood Adrain of What Will the Neighbors Say?
TRACES is a new devised documentary theater piece presented by the investigative theatre group...
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The Envy of Baz Luhrmann: A Parkside “Romeo + Juliet” to Remember
It can be difficult to gain contemporary audience for Shakespearean performance. Though the Bard’s...
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Interview: The “Best Time to Be Alive” and The Reclamation of Identity
On March 17, 2023, New York City’s Bedlam hosted the first industry reading of Best Time to Be...
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Art and Tech Imaginings of Kat Mustatea
Creating art that reflects our time, Kat Mustatea is a playwright and technologist whose...
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Prototype Festival: “Mary Motorhead/Trade” and “In Our Daughter’s Eyes”
It has been so challenging to write these reviews of three recent works presented as part of the...
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Sitting Down with Emerging Artist Thalia Ranjbar
The work of Thalia Ranjbar may be challenging– pushing beyond norms and expectations, but at its...
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Brecht, Kabarett, and Pussy Riot: The Impact of AnomalousCo’s “(beyond) Doomsday Scrolling”
Entering the theatre at HERE Arts, there is already a sense of broken ground. My companion and I...
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The House Where Phantom Lived—Part I: The Majestic Theatre, New York
Dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Broadway musical “The Phantom of the Opera.” It is known...
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The Geography of Theatre Imagination: A New “Endgame” at a New Irish Theatre Festival
Much of my approach to theatre, to performance, especially, consists in locating and assessing a...
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