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Medea as a Border-Body [Part I]

Posted by Deniz Bașar | 10th Jul 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Perhaps the 2024 production of La MaMa’s Medea, under Zishan Ugurlu’s direction and reimagining,...

Medea as a Border-Body [Part II]

Posted by Deniz Bașar | 10th Jul 2024 | Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

To read PART I of this essay, go to this link. The snake that Medea uses to make her...

Theatre as Confrontation: Catherine Filloux’s “How to Eat an Orange” at La MaMa

Posted by Rhiannon Ling | 4th Jun 2024 | Algeria, France, Interview, Theatre and Politics

Catherine Filloux is an internationally recognized French-Algerian playwright. Her work revolves...

“Lazarus 1972–2022” by Ping Chong

Posted by Clare Cioffero | 10th Jan 2023 | Design, New York, Puppetry, Review, United States of America

The show Lazarus 1972-2022 is difficult to pin down. How can what a thought looks like be...

“Balkan Bordello” at Teatri Oda

Posted by Borisav Matić | 21st Nov 2021 | Adaptation, Kosovo, Review, Serbia, Transcultural Collaborations

Balkan Bordello: An Orgiastic Musical in the Aftermath of War Imagine yourself at a hedonistic...

Space Opera in New York City

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

With a smattering of words, carefully grouped to alert the scholar that collectivism and...

Family Secrets Get Messy in “All My Fathers”

Posted by John Brunner | 17th Oct 2019 | New York, Review, Theatre and Age, United States of America

Is the truth always best or should some secrets go to the grave? For playwright Paul David Young,...

“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...

“SeagullMachine” – The Assembly Mixes Chekhov and Müller

Posted by Heather Waters | 5th May 2018 | Acting, New York, Review, United States of America

The lights never go down on the audience, the result being we all play a part in the production, and there are no spectators. La MaMa E.T.C. is a beautiful, decrepit, wonderfully haunted space; to redefine audience roles and do away with spectators is an adventurous, fun design for this stage.