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Interviewing Crystal Field, Artistic Director or Theater for the New City

Posted by Marcina Zaccaria | 31st Mar 2020 | Interview, New York, Theatre and Art, United States of America

Life cannot exist without art. That is something that is hard to get into people’s heads, because they say ‘I have to eat. I have to pay the rent. I have to be warm in the Winter and cooler in the Summer, if possible.’ They don’t realize that if you took their art away, if their art got taken away, they would die. They only know it, when it gets taken away.

Examining “A Black and White Cookie”

Posted by Cate Cammarata | 12th Mar 2020 | Interview, New York, Playwriting, United States of America

We can’t discuss unpleasant historical events or why you or I voted for that candidate without generating anger and accusations. A society which is afraid to think and respectfully consider different points of view will inevitably degrade its ability to understand. Then what?

Haruna Lee’s “Suicide Forest”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 6th Mar 2020 | Design, Japan, New York, Review, Transcultural Collaborations, United States of America

Suicide Forest, written by and starring Haruna Lee is a trippy meditation on the extremes of...

Girls to the Front: “Mac Beth” at Hunter Theater Project

Posted by Andrew Agress | 1st Mar 2020 | New York, Review, United States of America

Reading dry Shakespeare texts and going to parties at friends’ places seem like quintessential...

Born Toulouse

Posted by Abigail Weil | 27th Feb 2020 | New York, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Disability, United States of America

To find Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec, you will first enter through the wrong door. The production is...

“Star Odyssey” at MoMA PS1

Posted by Jack Wernick | 20th Feb 2020 | New York, Review, United States of America

The VW Dome at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens is the evocative setting of web-inspired...

VR as a Narcissistic Medium

Posted by Ágnes Bakk | 15th Feb 2020 | Interview, New York, Transmedia, United States of America

Rebecca Rouse is a Professor at the University of Skövde (Sweden), media artist and researcher. VR...

Movie or Musical? “West Side Story” at The Broadway Theatre

Posted by Andrew Agress | 12th Feb 2020 | New York, Review, Theatre and Film, United States of America

It seems that the classic Broadway musical West Side Story may be getting not one but two film...

Space Opera in New York City

Posted by Marcina Zaccaria | 10th Feb 2020 | New York, Review, Theatre and Opera, United States of America

When the stage floods with pink smoke at the end of the show, you question if you’re supposed to get lost in it. The division between actor/ spectator becomes less defined. Should we get lost in it? That’s the smoke, but what if there’s too much of it?

Druid Shakespeare: “Richard III” – The Voracious Void

Posted by Antigoni Gaitana | 7th Feb 2020 | Design, New York, Review, United States of America

A series of questions filled my mind. What was the motivation behind the choice of sets and costumes? In my opinion, the only thing that really worked well set wise was the ever-present void on stage, the grave downstage in which all bodies were thrown in – a constant reminder of death and of Richard’s deeds.