Prelude to Performance Performs “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi”
Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi are the second and third operas of the Il trittico, a trilogy of...
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“Pity in History”: The Potomac Theatre Project Wrestles with Howard Barker
Near the end of the Potomac Theatre Project’s production of Pity in History, with England...
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Hypermobility: Calder at the Whitney Museum
What is it about Alexander Calder’s mobiles that make them so ineffably charming? Is it the clever...
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“Gutless & Grateful” Tells The Tale Of Losing A Stomach And Gaining A Story
I grew up thinking my life was a musical. Call it the “theatre bug,” call me a “drama queen” or a...
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Julius Caesar In Our Times
“All the world’s a stage,” Shakespeare once wrote. In recent weeks, that Shakespearean adage has...
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Review: Ensemble Studio Theatre 1-Act Marathon, Series B
Ensemble Studio Theatre’s annual Marathon of One-Act Plays is in full swing this month in New...
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Dramatizing Argentina’s Dirty War: An Interview with Marisela Treviño Orta
While working on her MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco, playwright Marisela...
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The Holocaust, Sacrificed: Nicholas Tolkein’s “Terezin”
In taking it upon him or herself to depict the horrors of the Holocaust, the artist assumes an...
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Review of Martyna Majok’s “Cost Of Living”
Cost of Living is a vital new play from Polish-American playwright Martyna Majok. Following an...
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Stories of Diversity: An Interview with Martyna Majok
Martyna Majok is a young playwright whose new play, Cost of Living, has just opened in a Manhattan...
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Taking a Ride on a “Red Bike”
Against the roar of asphalt and a set of wheels, a child looks out onto the horizon and tries to...
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The Novel and Play That Predicted Donald Trump’s Rise
The performing arts and politics have an uneasy relationship. From Aristophanes satirizing the...
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A Question of Comedy in Rajiv Joseph’s “Archduke” at the Mark Taper Forum
The first image we were greeted with as audience members arriving to experience Rajiv Joseph’s...
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Caridad Svich’s “Town Hall”: Resistance And Change
This interview between OBIE-winning director and theater maker Katie Pearl and OBIE-winning...
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“Interrupted” at The 14th Factory – Immersive Multimedia Performance
Simply put, anyone who attended The 14th Factory’s afternoon of Interrupted on May 14th, an...
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Rollercoaster Ride of the Now in “Building The Wall”
From the dimming lights at the top of the play to their final fade 90 minutes later, Building The...
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Argentine Playwright Is Bold and Real in Two One-Acts
It’s good to be shaken off our predictable paths, and Ithaca’s Cherry Arts productions do that...
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s “An Octoroon” In London
This is phenomenal. And pretty wild. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s An Octoroon at the Orange Tree...
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Sense of Crisis: An Interview with Robert Schenkkan
Robert Schenkkan first came to national prominence in 1992, when his epic play The Kentucky Cycle...
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The Fate of Women in “La Femme Bohème”
While most scholars addressing issues of feminism in opera focus on the fate of women in opera...
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