Wednesday, October 3, 2018
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 comin…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:32AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Their movement allows them to take up all the space, filling the stage all the way to the frame.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:24PMMonday, September 10, 2018
We share our sweat, our humidity, our heat. We weather it, as Kelly does inside the box.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:42AMFriday, August 3, 2018
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 …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:36AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:32AMTuesday, July 17, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:18PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
How do you deconstruct a deconstruction?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:06PMFriday, April 13, 2018
There is a dizzying effect to the realization / acknowledgement of one’s cringe-worthy actions as white person to date, and Aloha Aloha gives that kaleidoscopic wheel quite the healthy spi…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:19AMThursday, April 5, 2018
there’s never enough time and we’re always reaching back, trying to remember what it felt like to crack wide open for the first time.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:38AMSaturday, January 27, 2018
The evening resembles what one might imagine how a Moth Storytelling Hour might play out if it were held at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:47PMWednesday, January 17, 2018
Responding to CUTE ACTIVIST at the Bushwick Starr: "Does this play want me to ‘like’ it or to ‘crying face’ it?"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:19AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
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 …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:04PMFriday, November 17, 2017
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…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:18AMTuesday, October 17, 2017
She exists, she conjures, she illuminates through whisper and scream.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:24AMThursday, October 12, 2017
Dan O'Neil interviews Tantztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch dancer Stephanie Troyak, and asks the question: "Can we make this?"
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:06PMThursday, October 5, 2017
Dan O'Neil steps into an escape room as part of an immersive theater project.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:34PMTo attend is to remind yourself how much we miss by relying on established institutions to deliver us our culture, pre-curated and mixed just so, on whatever silver platter they might have r…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:06PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
In THE POWER OF EMOTION: THE APARTMENT, the notion of emotion as a perfomative element provides the foundation for a wider exploration on how we not only watch, but hear and interpret emotio…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:36AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
To what degree must our celebrities look, sound, and live lives enough like ours in order for us to fetishize becoming them?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:12AMThursday, September 21, 2017
A response to The Krumple's 'YOKAI: Remedy for Despair' via the questioning of how one responds to art and how dependent that response is on form and location.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:36AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
If male artists were to spend the rest of their lives critiquing--as directly as this play critiques--the patriarchal authority of the Western canon, they would never run out of material.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
Kirsten Childs' larger than life heroine does some serious booty-smacking. Dan O'Neil reviews.
The post Review: Bella: An American Tall Tale at Playwrights Horizons appeared first on Exeunt…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:42PMThursday, June 8, 2017
I could go on, you should go on for me, counting heros not yet fallen.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:12PMMonday, June 5, 2017
“If a clone was made of you, would you sleep with it?”
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:36PMFriday, May 26, 2017
When one goes to the beach, does one lie on the sand and watch the water? Or does one wade in until they can barely reach the bottom?
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:48PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
In my early playwriting days, back when the majority of play submission opportunities had to be printed and mailed, it used to be very common to come across a submission guideline such as t…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:48PMFriday, January 27, 2017
Stefanie and Jerry, in the midst of a mysterious project that I now know addresses (among other things) heroes, myths, and specialness, are experiencing, as a result of the process, a transf…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:18PMSunday, January 22, 2017
Benson’s voiceover technique does all the good stuff and almost none of the bad stuff that you usually get from utilizing a narrator in the theater.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 03:12PMWednesday, September 14, 2016
DeLappe presents us with a wholly updated picture of youth, in which social awareness has supplanted willful ignorance. The competitive and constantly shifting pecking order within their so…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:33PMThursday, July 14, 2016
A response to Mia Rovegno's 'nothin's gonna change my world'
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:55PMMonday, June 13, 2016
#liberated, a play created by The Living Room and conceived and scripted by Lillian Meredith which runs at IRT Theatre through June 17th, employs two play structures simultanously with intri…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:02PM 
