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I could go on, you should go on for me, counting heros not yet fallen.
"If a clone was made of you, would you sleep with it?"
When one goes to the beach, does one lie on the sand and watch the water? Or does one wade in until they can barely reach the bottom?
In my early playwriting days, back when the majority of play submission opportunities had to be printed and mailed, it used to be very common to come across a submission guideline such as…
Stefanie and Jerry, in the midst of a mysterious project that I now know addresses (among other things) heroes, myths, and specialness, are experiencing, as a result of the process, a transf…
Benson's voiceover technique does all the good stuff and almost none of the bad stuff that you usually get from utilizing a narrator in the theater.
DeLappe presents us with a wholly updated picture of youth, in which social awareness has supplanted willful ignorance. The competitive and constantly shifting pecking order within their so…
A response to Mia Rovegno's 'nothin's gonna change my world'
#liberated, a play created by The Living Room and conceived and scripted by Lillian Meredith which runs at IRT Theatre through June 17th, employs two play structures simultanously with intri…
Ms. Drury, without being too showy, infuses our experience with evocative contradictions, challenges, and perceptions of imagery, some of it imagined, but somehow, magically, some of it real…
A response to CAENIS at the Pace Gallery through March 19th.
Nice Fish, by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins, currently playing at St. Ann's Warehouse through March 27th, takes this activity that most of us have never engaged in and makes it - at least f…
Human Head Performance Group's Due to Events, a curious collection of play pieces that have been constructed by Jean Ann Douglass and Eric John Meyer into a performance that runs through Feb…
Dan O'Neil reimagines a joke he once heard to the tune of VERSAILLES 2016, a 'play within a party' by This is Not a Theatre Company
On Monday night, New York Live Arts kicked off the 2016 Live Ideas festival, MENA/Future, which is devoted to a generation of artists whose creative networks across socio-political divides r…
Dan O'Neil reflects on immersive theater making via a response to THE GRAND PARADISE
A response to The Offending Gesture by Mac Wellman and what makes something 'work.'
Today's revolution, soon to be rendered in strobe-washed detail by the performance group Motus at La MaMa
Dan O'Neil responds to 'Abyss' and its use of a prominent first-person narrator
An exploration of the 'course-driven' theater structure via CHASE - WHAT MATTERS MOST at Dixon Place
In Ayun Halliday's new play, all dialogue is culled from social media.
An essay response to the Big Outdoor Site-Specific Stuff Festival (Oct. 23-25, 2015)
A non-machine-based response to 'Futurity', a co-production between Ars Nova & Soho Rep playing at the Connelly Theater through Nov. 15, 2015.
Fire, as a concept or symbol, has taken on a wide range of meaning throughout literary and dramatic history. Â I think almost immediately of The Firebugs, a German play written in 1953 by …