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"I'll just put my bias on the table." What is the impact of the work? "Let's turn over the rock and see what's under there." Terry says.
The artistic spaces that once housed me hurt me, causing tremendous trauma. This project"the second installment of "soft bodies in hard places," "very peak summer solstice""was a haven.
Does the key to life come less from real knowledge and more from a sense of rhythm? Pattern recognition? A skewed version of the old saying, "If it looks like a life, and it walks like a lif…
There is a general consensus that this moment can't restore power to a people who aren't in the room. But perhaps it can deflate the confidence of a narrative that props up those in power?
Essentially I, a poststructuralist rhetoric nerd, thought, I'm trying to write a play about the failures of all those other "girls" stories to reflect the real "girls" I know, and that word …
I was hired to perform as a sort of Vanna White car model at an auto show in New Hampshire. I had to memorize 2 pages of facts about a new model of Subaru, which I repeated over and over int…
Two pieces that delve into ideas surrounding worship and identity: Angie Pittman's "Came Up in a Lonely Castle" and Johnnie Cruise Mercer/TheREDProjectNYC's "Process memoir 4: The word, the …
This question of power comes up - who are we listening to the most? And who are we not listening to, or are somehow unable to listen to, or fall asleep while they're talking?
Alex Borinsky & Chana Porter interview each other
With XIV, my favorite experimental constitutionalist bruthrr George Emilio Sanchez is crashing a brown, brooding and bold biography into the broader American histories of other fights for eq…
pathetic is writer/director Julia Jarcho's riff on Racine's Phedre, the neo-classical exploration of a woman's lust, so of course it takes place in a high school.
The other morning, Lila woke up and her first question was "Mama, how do you start to write a musical?" which, I admit, made me feel proud.
Donovan builds a tranquil place effortlessly, and then creates darkness within the negative (theatrical) space around it, using it as atmospheric pressure to hold the memory in place.
Dan Safer is the devil you've been dying to dance with and Ae Andrea's enviable lines and swag make them an optimal fiend friend for that card.
In summary: This should shouldn't have been put up, here or anywhere
A composite of quite ordinary gestures that combine to make something novel, much in the way the entire play uses old poses in service of a show much more than an aesthetic or expressionisti…
But no: There is one, really stupid joke, and we made sure that we put it on an altar, as: This is the stupidest joke. Do you want to hear it loudly, and pronounced with such courage?
You can get close to truth but you can't ever - in my opinion - I don't think any story is ever true.
Ni'Ja Whitson queers divine kingdoms with cosmological meetings amidst a swirl of lineage, legacies and streaming star scapes. Salve.
If life is a race, all the characters here are lagging behind the leader, just hoping to keep up and find space to breath amidst the density of inevitable heartbreak that comes along with li…
I will not say "I've grown up" since then, because truly I see this acceptance of paid monotony as a bit of my idealism seeping out. A necessary bloodletting, at long last, giving up my muli…
After over a decade hiatus in making work, with "now my hand is ready for my heart" downtown icon, Nicky Paraiso gushes forth while looking back on several lived lives in Nickyworld.
I'm not sure I would call Mrs. Murray's Menagerie a play, as such, if only because a play suggests an exterior blueprint which is then built or enacted by a group of performers and designers…
Yilong Liu is a Chinese-born playwright who writes plays in English. Michael Leibenluft is an Obie-winning, American-born director who directs in Chinese. Together, they've been working on t…
through sharing, repeating, layering, and rephrasing, the company finds a way to both underline and subvert the brutality without explicitly pointing at it.
