Recently, the playwright Diana Ly and I spoke about her philosophical, funny, tender, deeply felt, "medieval miniature" (Helen Shaw, The New Yorker) play Sex and the Abbey, which runs at The…
Purchase tickets to Ian Reid's Heaven is a Place in the Sky, running September 3-8 at The Tank! Friends premiered almost 30 years ago exactly, on September 22nd, 1994. Its omnipresence is we…
 Playwright Sophie McIntosh's latest play, Cunnicularii, which ran for two weeks in July at Chelsea's Alchemical Studios, centers on the seldom discussed 'fourth trimester'" the time bet…
You " just you " walk into an empty space. The only thing visible is a note with a phone number on it, and when the voice on the other line picks up, it asks you to acknowledge that you are …
One of the miraculous things about New York City is how much goes on without your ever knowing about it. Every day a piece of art is made, a performance is rehearsed and mounted, or a writer…
In SALT, a semi-interactive dance-theater work by Los Angeles-based Volta Collective, director-choreographer Mamie Green and writers Sammy Loren and Ellington Wells take on Euripides's Medea…
 The Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research, based out of a loft in Greenpoint, is known for shows that tread the line of intellectualism and indulgence. Playwright and director Matthew Ga…
Through their inner-experience, we see that the women's profound losses and fears are surrounded by decidedly mundane and glancing frustrations - the very kind that eat away at all of our se…
Kazakhstan's ORTA Collective presented Spectacular Experiments on the Great Atomic Bombreflector at La MaMa ETC in association with CultureHub.
 Some performances can bring back the dead. Through references and recordings, through revivals and reenactments, they channel the spirit of the artists and choreography they cite and ca…
 Mur shows up at the Murray Hill coffee shop in an outfit streaked with multicolored paint and a gift for me still drying in their hand. The performance artist is best known for their mu…
A golden age is brewing for AAPI contemporary performance[i] with Glenn Potter-Takata and evan ray suzuki serving as crafty "kodama" (木霊, æœ¨é‚ or 木é…) leading us…
One of the work's most shocking accomplishments is that, despite the intense volume, confounding poetic ramblings, disturbing vibes, and depressing inspiration, the audience loves it.
Audrée Juteau's methods are fungal. She is breaking down detritus in our societal soil and making it into art. Dance is the mushroom in Mystic-Informatic, which Audrée and her human co-cre…
For two nights, Judson Church hosted the Crossroads Series with varied programming each evening. On Tuesday, April 23rd, three very different performances were presented by Pioneers Go East …
 I've always known that the David H Koch Theater, once known as The New York State Theater, was made to George Balanchine's specifications. Still, until sitting down to speak with Thomas…
There is a moment in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot that I return to whenever I think about the relationship between dance and language. It's an often misquoted scene, but it happens whe…
 My interest in theater, and acting, came from what I perceived as an intellectual limitation in ballet, where training is relegated to silence. While discussions of technique and aesthe…
I saw Thomas Ostermeier's An Enemy of the People at the Duke of York Theatre twice, on purpose. It's a sublime text to be working on today, wrought with all the conflict currently comprising…
Alethea Pace's "between wave and water," presented recently at BAAD!, honors the memory of the ancestors buried there in a potent passage of works that resist the urge to erase America's his…
Ka Baird stalks the stage like a phantom: hungry, unsettled, irrepressible. Wielding a microphone and sometimes a flute, they sway and swing at the air, moving with the zeal of a mind posses…
Racing with the gravity of children, the adults ricochet around this room built for great art, cackling. A narrow dodge. Cori's it. A swipe across the belly. Â Â Â Â Â Â MAM…
For young women on social media and the real world alike, girlhood has become somewhat trendy in recent months. Apprehensive of adulthood, increasing numbers of individuals have clung to the…
Racing with the gravity of children, the adults ricochet around this room built for great art, cackling. A narrow dodge. Cori's it. A swipe across the belly. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â…
The audience, a group of ten people padding along in their socks, line up silently along the back wall. The glowing outline of a circle appears on the floor. Someone is brave enough to step …