This is best drag: rooted by a simple movement vocabulary elevated with full design elements embodied by a queer figure in complete control of her material.
Since it's often hard to explain a good piece of theater " as Milo Rau's Five Easy Pieces, which had its all-too-brief North American premier two weeks ago at the Skirball Center, certainly …
It's not so much a communing with the dead as an un-containing of the self, casting meaning into the void, hoping perhaps to receive some echo of that meaning back, in the shape of a hug, or…
Feminist philosopher Grosz asks: "How can we understand space differently, in order to organize, inhabit, and structure our living arrangements differently?" Dirks-Goodman takes this as prov…
When it comes to representation, the question of whose vantage point is accepted as the default. Whose story reads as universal?
A very telling moment occurs right at the top of American Juggalo, a new play produced by collective Unattended Baggage, at HERE Arts Center that closed March 3. After a projected slideshow …
"Ain't Too Proud" is more than just a jukebox musical.
We are constantly delighting each other with things and discoveries and even in scenes where the characters are brutal and cruel beyond imagination to each other"as soon as we get out of cha…
I once described Little Lord shows like a rollercoaster. At the end we want you to realize how far you've been, how far you've traveled, even if you were just sitting still in your seat.
John Gutierrez writes from inside "This Bridge Called My Ass" from Miguel Gutierrez
It shook me, as the kids say. And I see a lot. And experience a lot. And I felt shook.
So you’re a dramaturg. What inspired you to pursue dramaturgy? I discovered it while I was in undergrad as a devised theatre major. At that point, I was a bit of a generalist, as we we…
Being on a plane you're just constantly being confronted with your own mortality. Â Or at least I am.
And, yet, we are here, re-fashioning community and remaining soft in a building of stone. The monuments are crumbling. We can take an ax to their base or let them dissolve to the dust of the…
Wearing the mask in no way erases the company's differences, but rather unites them as they all create together on a level playing field.
There is an open mic and a fantasy slow dance to memories yet to occur, and a dance party that is pretty cute. I fall in love for exactly 15 minutes and it's the best.
Michael + Patrick seem to be rebelling against the theater's ruling class: kitchen sink dramas, heady idea plays, and " worst of all " amusement park attractions masquerading as Broadw…
Tina Satter's direction and Half Straddle's pitch-perfect company establish and then maintain an unblinking focus that cuts through the dissipating fog and rewards the audience's taut attent…
On NYLA/Fresh Tracks: Auditioned Works with J. Bouey, Emma Rose Brown, Liana Conyers, and Collin Ranf One version of the artist's fantasy is to have complete creative control over the contex…
In Polylogues, the audience is watching me, and specifically me trying to listen. You're watching that effort.
If fantasy has the power to instantiate, and maintain such debilitating power structures, could it also be the very force required to undo them?
Here, thoughts are freed from linearity or reasonable binds. There, processing systems allow the universe to expand and retract as an infinite sponge. Where bodies transmute from human famil…
The Making of King Kong sets out to unpack the monstrosity of our current cultural moment via the monkey, simultaneously evoking a 1930s acting style (transatlantic accents abound) while com…
the art that really connects to me is about the little tiny very specific pieces of life, always needing to retie your shoelace, the way your kid wipes his tears away with his palms, the way…
I've found it terrifying at times, and surprised about how different it has felt for me. But it's brought a deeper sort of pleasure, not least of which is that I am so proud of what we're do…