“Hopscotch Opera”: A Mobile Opera For 24 Cars From The Industry LA
Imagine getting in a car without knowing the destination. Sharing the car are singers, actors, and...
Read MorePosted by Lauren Deutsch | 22nd Dec 2016 | Immersive Theatre, Los Angeles, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Opera, Transmedia
Imagine getting in a car without knowing the destination. Sharing the car are singers, actors, and...
Read MorePosted by Anne Hamilton | 21st Dec 2016 | Dramaturgy, Essay, Musical Theatre, New York, United States of America
It is much more challenging to dramaturg a musical than a straight play because there are so many more elements to consider, assess, and attempt to balance out. I examine each song in the score in terms of style, tempo, tone, melody, and length.
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 20th Dec 2016 | New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Once every four years most Americans sheepishly admit to trusted friends of similar political...
Read MorePosted by Taurie Kinoshita | 16th Dec 2016 | Hawaii, News, United States of America
Popular images of Hawai’i are those of dancing women in provocative grass skirts adorned with...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Dec 2016 | New York, Review, United States of America
Anyone so inclined could find plenty of reasons to carp about The Babylon Line, Richard...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 15th Dec 2016 | New York, Review, United States of America
Chekhov’s Three Sisters is distilled into vibration and iteration in The Hummm, a radical...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 14th Dec 2016 | New York, Review, United States of America
What a journey Lynn Nottage’s Sweat has had. When this gorgeously incisive play about heartbreak...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 11th Dec 2016 | Philadelphia, Review, United States of America
Seuls Written, Directed, and Performed by Wajdi Mouawad The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia Nov....
Read MorePosted by Ana-Maria Bandean | 9th Dec 2016 | New York, News, Romania, United States of America
On the nights of November 18 & November 20, 2016, at Here Arts Centre, NYC, I was being...
Read MorePosted by Rachel E. Diken | 29th Nov 2016 | New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Helluva Theatre Company—newly formed under the mission to produce plays from the traditional canon...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 26th Nov 2016 | New York, Review, United States of America
The Encounter, Simon McBurney’s two-hour intermissionless solo show on Broadway, which many...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 25th Nov 2016 | New York, Review, United States of America
Although the PR images of leaping, lunging and levitating female soccer players seem to promise...
Read MorePosted by Marcina Zaccaria | 18th Nov 2016 | Japan, New York, News, Theatre and Opera, United States of America
It is a musical piece without words. At Japan Society on Nov. 11, Sounds to Summon the Japanese...
Read MorePosted by Carrie Mannino | 12th Nov 2016 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
Analogy/Dora: Tramontane, Oct. 20-21, 2016, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh Sixty years after the...
Read MorePosted by Amir Farjoun | 8th Nov 2016 | New York, United States of America
The non-Broadway performing arts scene in New York is characterized by a painful lack of funding...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 6th Nov 2016 | New York, Poland, Polish Theatre Abroad, Review, United States of America
It’s hard to think of a play more diabolically suited to the era of reality TV, vanished privacy...
Read MorePosted by Marcina Zaccaria | 28th Oct 2016 | New York, News, Theatre and Opera, Transmedia, United States of America
Returning to the Met’s Live in HD series is a moving production of Don Giovanni. Part of the charm...
Read MorePosted by Jessica Rizzo | 28th Oct 2016 | Adaptation, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
The Maids, September 29-October 23, The INTAR Theatre, New York City Invoking the...
Read MorePosted by Rachel E. Diken | 26th Oct 2016 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
The Paper Mill Playhouse’s revival of Broadway hit The Producers received the 2016 Regional...
Read MorePosted by Megan Geigner | 21st Oct 2016 | Adaptation, Chicago, Musical Theatre, News
The Tempest and Dreamgirls take top honors at the 48th Annual Jeff Awards October 17, 2016 –...
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