Creating the Writing on the Wall, Literally - How 'This Is Modern Art' brings graffiti culture to the stage
How This Is Modern Art brings graffiti culture to the stage---Graffiti and theatre make uneasy bedfellows. Case in point: When Jessica Burr, the artistic director of experimental physical theatre company Blessed Unrest, decided to mount This Is Modern Art at Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop, the venue gave her one rule: no spray painting. That posed quite the creative conundrum for a show about three Chicago st…