What is the body if not your closest, most concrete tie to blood lineage? It's a mirror, a translation, a vessel for parallels and repetition across oceans and decades.
"I aim to be a balance between a healer, a dictator, and an anarchist" - Sophia Cleary
Paper. A tongue? A face? Hands, elbows, emerging body parts. Two bodies. Questions. Who are they to each other? Will they ever come out from behind the semi-translucent wall? Conceal and rev…
Some would argue that there is nothing wrong with money from those who have too much and using it to support yourself and your community" a creative Robin Hood of sorts. But is taking advant…
I don't think it's our job to banish the darkness. But I think it's our job to understand that the light locates us in this womb. It locates us in this infinite and ever expanding universe. …
I feel tension between practice and permission. I relish in the freedom and the challenge to make what I can make with the time and resources that I already have at my disposal.
SUPERSTITIONS inhabits a world that relies on the use of language, strangeness, incongruities that are made congruous at unexpected times throughout.
In PREPAREDNESS, a mandatory HR session threatens the survival of a college theater department.
Not a "solo show" but also not not a solo show
A catalyst, a deep breath together, a gathering.
Gassman is the real article, the authentic listener, who has heard in the city's woke and hip aspirations, its angry and tired lives, and its ever-evolving demography the real meaning of ord…
A dominating thread of grief and healing wound its way through La MaMa Moves! 2021 and most of the artists brought song and storytelling into a festival that, as curator Nicky Paraiso acknow…
Somehow, it made perfect sense that we did it during a global pandemic. I think we created something that does three things; captures our current reality, comments on the future, and will ho…
On Friday, a battle against nightmares. On Saturday, the struggle to accomplish one basic task. On Sunday, a dinosaur trying to jump-rope. And on Sunday, the crushing weight of depression.
Live art is still here, and as Shelley understood two centuries ago, it will remain alive for as long as we do.
PASSAGE THRU feels like stepping through a portal, a fable we get to participate in alongside the performers.
Edward Einhorn has gamified independent theater producing, in a fun but remarkable educational exercise is demystifying just what it takes to make a play
Elliot spent his career looking for the meaning of this elusive concept [of dramaturgy], and with the following we attempt to honor him and continue his quest by articulating what Elliot's d…
I hope the more arts workers and others share these stories, the more clear and obvious the focus on change becomes. "Emily Johnson
Fact and fiction, inseparable, blur and tease. Cut to disco ball, still swinging. Slow down and watch the air sparkle.
Misha "sees" in multiple dimensions, as all great directors do, and through multiple worldviews, too, as an artist whose work is informed by being Bengali, queer, and an immigrant.
Created and performed by Holly Sass and Jonathan Matthews / BREAKTIME
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I think all women and femme people have a complicated relationship with the kitchen, because patriarchy has told us it's our "proper place," so the kitchen is never a neutral space. It's…
Eliza Bent is about as close to a recognizable brand as you can get in downtown theater land (I say this in a good way) - she has a specific and winning skewed sensibility and a …