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The failure Burke examines comes from (intentional) overuse, dereliction, or poor design, not the result of freewheeling adventure or calculated risk-taking.
I left 'Sleep' as if I was waking from a dream"confident that what I had just experienced was meaningful, but entirely unclear as to why.
Sobelle's work relies heavily on what one might describe as "sleight-of-staging," which I'll posit here is a cross between what a magician does with objects (cards and the like) and what a d…
Between Walled Rooms is a series of freeform responses to live performance works by female-identifying choreographers, initiated by Tara Sheena. This work is a response to Hadar Ahuvia's "Ev…
Five Questions: Sam Schanwald with Hannah Wasileski, the projections designer from SLEEP
The critic or artist who wants to be trusted must be willing to be vulnerable and flawed; she must be willing to be wrong. She must be willing to risk. And it is no less terrifying for the c…
slowdanger is a performance duo from Pittsburgh. They are Anna Thompson and Taylor Knight, who speak their minds both alone and together. We talk about the queerness of being a multidiscipli…
Tone-deaf and half-baked, Ivo van Hove's adaptation of "The Fountainhead" flounders onstage
Perforations Festival brings us into direct responsibility for the execution of artistic ideas and challenges the passive stasis of sideline observation in a mostly successful series of perf…
How do we resolve our needs for nurturing, intimacy (implied individualism), and safety with our fascist reality?
Audrey Moyce responds to TOYS: A DARK FAIRY TALE at 59E59.
Stylistically, Big Dance Theater's 17c (part of Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival through November 18th, tickets from $24) invites comparison to (among other works) the film dir…
You could call it an exploration of the butterfly effect on a schizophrenic scale.
While the spirit remains centered, the chorus spins wildly out of control - dispersing, translating, perverting, transmuting, contextualizing Thomas Paine's words with deliberately mixed res…
Maura and Eugene de Poogene yelled over really loud music with Croatian curator and producer Zvonimir Dobrovic about his "Perforations Festival" - opening Friday.
We've written a very hopeful apocalypse.
Dima's parents project their fears and ambitions onto her in the form of a paradox - to be happy, Dima must be perfect, and to be perfect, Dima must be happy.
The bits of conversation that don't quite work suggest a weirder reality lying under the normalcy we see, a reality which seems to bubble more and more to the surface as the day wears on.
Jeremy M. Barker and Matthew Goulish discuss Every house has a door's "The Three Matadores"
In Donly's theater of gentleness and Bosch's garden of delight, we are granted a vision of the world in which disagreement is not the harbinger of the end of love but the engine of love's co…
Maura covers The Bessies, MR AoCC Studies Project, AmericanAF, Jasmine Hearn & Mariana Valencia, and Cynthia Oliver's world premiere of "Virago-Man Dem"
"Tell us why a shorter version of this feels like a sketch, and a longer version feels like a play."
The impacts of grief, however miniscule or massive, are the focus of "Submerge 2017: Break Time", a festival curated primarily by Ali Rosa-Salas. Interested in the ways in which "we" are "pe…
I got the impression that Corinne and Sarah were working out their ideas in front of me, rather than regurgitating concepts already known. In other words, the play was becoming before my eye…
A white light emits from the mouth of a vintage Shure Unidyne microphone dangling from the ceiling on what looks like an electric vine with various twists and hooks adorned. When Richard com…
