But a woman is a changeling, always shifting shape Just when you think you have it figured out Something new begins to take …I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King. " Florence + The Mach…
Presented by NYC's Piper Theatre, Aftermath is a new pop musical-in-development written by Daniel McKamey, with lyrics by Pance Pony and book by James Clements. The story follows the afterma…
TRACES is a new devised documentary theater piece presented by the investigative theatre group What Will the Neighbors Say? and commissioned by CUNY Queens College in Queens, NY. Researched …
"The Aliens Make Thanksgiving Dinner" is a new devised play, co-written, co-directed and performed by James Clements (Scotland), Derya Celikkol (Turkey) and Maamoun Tebbo (Lebanon), and helm…
Since its original 1933 film debut, the story of King Kong has become a mainstay of America's, and New York City's, popular culture, with the great ape's skyscraper showdown as much a civic …
The last several decades of U.S. history have seen a remarkable upswing in women's political success, with female candidates rising to prominence in Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Vice…
When reflecting on the experiences, and people, that have shaped us, certain individuals may emerge as recurring figures in our personal stories. More pointedly, when someone disappears and …
The last several years in our shared history, particularly the rise of discriminatory legislation, pandemic-fueled xenophobia, and racially-motivated violence, have turned a sharper lens tow…
The past year has, in many ways, turned a sharper lens towards our bodies, particularly our physical relationship to the world around us. The pandemic-fueled absence of bodily connection, an…
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned an interesting social paradox: even as online platforms have helped us maintain valuable interactions in a time of physical isolation, they have also highli…
Given the year's unsettling mixed-bag of a global pandemic, racial reckoning, political strife, and various man-made and natural crises (murder hornets, anyone?), the chaos of 2020 has becom…
After nearly half a year in quarantine, many artists still wrestle with the conundrum of COVID-era theatre: how can we create meaningful work when stripped of the in-person contact on which …
Individual tastes notwithstanding, it can be argued that the best theatre is that which connects us to our own humanity and lived experience. Though the COVID-19 outbreak, and ensuing mass q…
As the #metoo movement has made evident, recent years have witnessed not only the revelation of women's long-buried truths but a new awareness of the systems which necessitate and uphold the…
The question of graffiti's status as expression or vandalism has served as a point of contention for decades of urban history. While modern New Yorkers may regularly encounter such works wit…