United States of America Archives - Page 39 of 57

“Breath And Imagination”: The Rediscovery Of Roland Hayes

Posted by Jane Baldwin | 18th Dec 2018 | Boston, Musical Theatre, Review, United States of America

Breath And Imagination is a musical, composed and written by Daniel Beaty, largely based on the...

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...

“Wet: A DACAmented Journey”: Living As An Undocumented Immigrant

Posted by Jane Baldwin | 11th Dec 2018 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Alex Alpharaoh has brought WET: A DACAmented Journey, his moving, comic, and political one-man...

“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...

Review: “Man In The Ring” By Michael Cristofer

Posted by Matthew McMahan | 7th Dec 2018 | Boston, LGBTQ+ Theatre, Review, United States of America

Michael Cristofer’s “Man in the Ring” is a memory play that hits on an emotional level in a way that is hard to shake.

Less Is More Or Less Is Less: The Balancing Act Of Designing Big Musicals In Small Spaces

Posted by Michael Schweikardt | 6th Dec 2018 | Design, Interview, United States of America

Joe Klug is a gifted scenic designer who has a passion for reimagining musicals, particularly in...

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.

Legacy And Genius In Machover’s New Opera “Schoenberg In Hollywood”

Posted by Megan McCormick | 1st Dec 2018 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

It’s a bold move to write an opera about a musical genius: to evoke the style of said great...

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...

“Androcles and the Lion” And “Espæce” At The Pittsburgh International Festival Of Firsts

Posted by Wendy Arons | 27th Nov 2018 | Pittsburgh, The Pittsburgh Tatler

The Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts finished in a blaze of glory this past week with...

“Blue Kettle” And “Here We Go”: A First Rate Revival Of Two Of Caryl Churchill’s Plays

Posted by Jane Baldwin | 26th Nov 2018 | Boston, Review, United States of America

The Boston Commonwealth Shakespeare Company began life as a summer program over twenty years ago...

Pioneering Black Superstar Immortalized on Stage

Posted by Alexander Nderitu | 25th Nov 2018 | Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America

Josephine Baker tribute shows garner favourable reviews across the world.

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.