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While the subject matter is dead serious, the style and aesthetic approach feels giddy, unafraid of big stupid choices when they're appropriate.
We eventually spend less time on saddles and hats, and more time on trying to get inside that frictional feeling of being pressed into a hookup's smelly, hairy crotch while he calls you "pre…
What does it do to the modernist play, the living room drama, I wonder, when there is no living room, when there's no home at all? Where does the play go?
I like to provoke an internal movement in the audience, something where their inner life or fantasy is activated.
Yeah we've done microphones.
What would it mean, Café Play wonders, if we could be more present" less tweets, phones off, open to chance strangers seated nearby, ears attuned to those around us, and to the creatures an…
Life is triggering. I am triggered constantly. You either choose to run away from that reality, be victimized by it, or lean into it by accepting the truth of your own experience.
Nowadays I'm less interested in causing maybe a huge stir or making something achingly beautiful on the whole. Now it's more like: take a sizable hunk out of the corner somewhere and maddeni…
There is pain, hurt, lovesickness for miles in every direction, emanating from this club across the country, world, and intergalactic beyond.
What makes this Oklahoma more than just smart is how it ruthlessly strips away the glaze of nostalgia that usually accompanies such restagings in order to uncover what seemingly must have al…
Payne keeps his audience from jumping ahead to any particular conclusion by deploying a second (bigger, metatheatrical) frame around Karma's story, one in which the house lights keep coming …
Sad clowns, hobo clowns, birthday party clowns, crust-punk clowns, burning man hula hoopers dressed like clowns...juggalos! I don't consider myself any of them.
Their movement allows them to take up all the space, filling the stage all the way to the frame.
We share our sweat, our humidity, our heat. We weather it, as Kelly does inside the box.
What, for the theater, are our tablecloths, forks, spoons, plates and bowls that maybe aren't actually serving us anymore? Is how we are making theater and performance the best way it cou…
I grew up in a yellow house in West Seneca, NY, a suburb of Buffalo. My bedroom window was on the second floor in between the windows of my sisters, though I am the youngest, with a huge map…
“Feminist Perspectives on Building Intersectional Communities,” facilitated by Joy Messinger and guest speakers Hana Ii-Epstein, Jessie Fuentes, Kyra Jones, Lenox Magee, Denise Y…
This testing, naming, retreating, reframing; lifting to the light the grays and yellows and beiges and browns of inner worlds " is often the dance of the play.
What was I doing? Why was I here? What had I hoped to achieve from this? So many people I didn't know! Communal living having its obvious benefits, but not that easy to suddenly just find on…
What controversies like Robert Lepage's "SLÄ€V" reveal about the shortcomings of art practices
What's the relationship between joy and the various vibes and qualities of my identity? In my life, joy is so damn important; I'm rounding out year #2 living in NYC after moving from the Mid…
Hammel draws us in to her experience, while granting us a bit of separation from the material itself (which is unrelentingly bleak, flirting with misogyny, although its view of the male spec…
This is Peter Pan set in a dystopian futureland, the music acting as a remnant of a memory of a time when feeling was more possible, when childhood was more innocent; before we found ourselv…
MADONNA col BAMBINO is written by Sarah Einspanier, composed by Deepali Gupta and directed by Caitlin Sullivan. Structured like a speculative science fiction mass, the play is trippy, eerily…
Tamara Sevunts is a Canadian-Armenian actress, originally from Montreal and now based in NYC. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she is fluent in six languages. Off-Broadwa…
