13 stories by "Clare Cioffero"
A small boat sails the stage while a trap door serves as the river depths for one of the characters to sink beneath the waves. And as the story reaches its inevitable conclusion, a snowstorm…
It has been so challenging to write these reviews of three recent works presented as part of the Prototype Festival, works, as the founders have said in various ways, that "skirt the line be…
On a cold November, New York Friday night, when temperatures approached freezing, the shivering audience waiting to experience Albert Camus' The Fall at the Soho Playhouse checked in at the …
The show Lazarus 1972-2022 is difficult to pin down. How can what a thought looks like be described? It's this sort of impediment that does not allow for easy categorization. The show is bei…
The simplicity of the set was enriched with exquisite lighting design, by Oliver Wason, depicting the starry heavens above, exploding bombs, flocks of butterflies, even projections of charac…
In August 2020, Battery Dance shifted its annual Battery Dance Festival to a virtual format. The Festival is a storied free public dance festival commanding a large audience each year. Shift…
In five years, in ten years, in twenty, we will remember what it felt like to live through the pandemic shutdown? Of course, we will remember the main facts: the sounds of unceasing ambulanc…
These artists are passionate and insightful, yet the dancers and musicians are not acclimated to speaking their minds to audiences. What emerges is a raw and thoughtful narrative with a sens…
The thing about UnRavelled is that it's one of those plays that even a week after seeing it random moments from the play continue to knock at the corners of my brain while I'm focused on mor…
Midway through the first episode of Isolation to Creation, a docuseries produced as part of this year's Guggenheim series Works & Process, a dancer interviewed in the early days of the p…
To the right of the piano, hung on the far wall of the space, was the ravishing 103 x 172.5 inch acrylic on canvas. The Frankenthaler abstract painting dominated the space with a wash of und…
For theater, I like to give myself constraints. So for this, the constraint was that I wanted to write this for two people, partially because I love 2-person plays. There aren't enough of th…
Seven darkly lit Zoom screens containing seven performers whose faces were obscured by elaborate, creepily stunning masks. Round robin they state, "LOOK at me. Look AT me. Look at ME" in Far…
