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Ever since the quarantine began, a joke has been circulating throughout critical discourse"ok, on Twitter"about the literature that will emerge a year, five years, a decade from now: post-dy…
Ever since the quarantine began, a joke has been circulating throughout critical discourse"ok, on Twitter"about the literature that will emerge a year, five years, a decade from now: post-dy…
I've never not gotten lost in Green-Wood Cemetery. One of the oldest landscaped cemeteries in these United States, Green-Wood was founded in 1838 when Brooklyn was still a mostly rural regio…
Suicide Forest, written by and starring Haruna Lee is a trippy meditation on the extremes of Japanese culture. A joint production of Bushwick Starr and the Asian American theatre company Ma-…
To find Unmaking Toulouse-Lautrec, you will first enter through the wrong door. The production is being staged at the SoHo bar Madame X, but upstairs; go in through the main entrance and you…
Two embarrassing conditions unsettled me at the top of Ellen West, the new opera by Ricky Ian Gordon based on the poem of the same name by Frank Bidart: I had to cough, and I was hungry. The…
What are the first words you think of when you hear the name Mary Magdalene? Prostitute? Saved? Jesus? (#)Me too. In their extraordinary new chamber opera Magdalene, part of Prototype Festiv…
I'm a thirty-four-year-old straight woman who grew up in the suburbs with an older brother. That means I've spent a lot of time watching dudes play video games. I thought those days were beh…
The Black History Museum….According to the United States of America, Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative's new show at HERE Arts Center, combines, interrogates, reimagines, in short, chops &…
It's June 18, 1983. You're a waitress in St. Louis who's all but given up her dreams of achieving renown, or at least impact, as a poet. You're in an unsatisfying relationship and a stimulat…