Monday, May 8, 2023
the female golem as child rang true to me as I questioned my own creative potential
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:18AMWednesday, November 17, 2021
SUPERSTITIONS inhabits a world that relies on the use of language, strangeness, incongruities that are made congruous at unexpected times throughout.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:03PMMonday, November 15, 2021
In PREPAREDNESS, a mandatory HR session threatens the survival of a college theater department.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:24AMFriday, May 7, 2021
Somehow, it made perfect sense that we did it during a global pandemic. I think we created something that does three things; captures our current reality, comments on the future, and will ho…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:24PMTuesday, October 27, 2020
I think all women and femme people have a complicated relationship with the kitchen, because patriarchy has told us it’s our “proper place,” so the kitchen is never a neutral space. …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:03PMMonday, September 28, 2020
Eliza Bent is about as close to a recognizable brand as you can get in downtown theater land (I say this in a good way) - she has a specific and winning skewed sensibility and a propensi…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:06PMTuesday, February 25, 2020
Ethan Lipton's enjoyable Western has some fuzziness around the edges that made our critic think about the films of Jim Jarmusch. Dan O'Neil reviews.
The post Review: Tumacho at the Connelly…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 08:37AMMonday, February 17, 2020
All those toxic names on our money, our buildings, even our clothing. How they got there, and what it might mean to strip them of their meaning and power.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:36PMTuesday, January 21, 2020
The made-up movie feels like one of those sweeping international melodramas with lots of expansive cinematography. In the minds of it creators, it’s an epic-length narrative replete with m…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:03PMFriday, January 17, 2020
It’s about how we try to use stories to explain things that we otherwise can’t explain, and how sometimes even those stories don’t do the work for us. How do we keep doing the work aft…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:18AMFriday, December 13, 2019
We lean in, unable to control our own desire to be persuaded, even as we know that this is a play, this is not true, this is just another gesture in a world full of them
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:36AMMonday, December 2, 2019
It’s less an interview and more a listening circle — if you are comfortable talking in front of a group, you’ll be just fine at it
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:18PMMonday, November 18, 2019
If you can say one thing, and only one thing, about Harris’s body of work thus far, it’s that it certainly seems to incite conversation.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 05:12PMMonday, November 11, 2019
even if death is on everyone’s menu, lurking somewhere after dessert, this evening, we survived
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:33PMTuesday, October 22, 2019
I went in with this insane piece, this musical phantasmagoria island site-specific thing -- and came out with my most, sort of, small quiet piece I've ever made that really relies upon, for …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:12PMMonday, October 21, 2019
It’s not always clear what we’re looking at, but perhaps Henry is tearing down the house, family, and narrative form itself with hope alongside rage.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:42AMMonday, October 7, 2019
Their arguments, even when hate-filled, are lucidly formed and difficult to penetrate. There’s a weird thrill of uncomfortable relief when we find ourselves half-agreeing with them.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:03PMWednesday, September 25, 2019
It’s the concept of being brave and having a safe space that is safe enough that you can feel brave -- because it takes bravery to have those conversations that you know will be difficult,…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:03PMMonday, September 9, 2019
You feel, given the virtuosity and care demonstrated onstage, that you owe this much. You can carry all this. If you let it fall, it’ll break the spell. Don’t spill the water.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:03AMMonday, May 27, 2019
Donovan builds a tranquil place effortlessly, and then creates darkness within the negative (theatrical) space around it, using it as atmospheric pressure to hold the memory in place.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 01:06PMThursday, May 2, 2019
You can get close to truth but you can’t ever - in my opinion - I don’t think any story is ever true.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:12PMSunday, April 21, 2019
If life is a race, all the characters here are lagging behind the leader, just hoping to keep up and find space to breath amidst the density of inevitable heartbreak that comes along with li…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:59AMThursday, April 11, 2019
I’m not sure I would call Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie a play, as such, if only because a play suggests an exterior blueprint which is then built or enacted by a group of performers and desig…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 06:35PMMonday, April 1, 2019
through sharing, repeating, layering, and rephrasing, the company finds a way to both underline and subvert the brutality without explicitly pointing at it.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 10:16AMMonday, March 18, 2019
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, …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 04:46PMThursday, January 10, 2019
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 …
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 12:24PMTuesday, December 4, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 02:36PMSunday, November 18, 2018
While the subject matter is dead serious, the style and aesthetic approach feels giddy, unafraid of big stupid choices when they’re appropriate.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 09:42AMSaturday, October 20, 2018
There is pain, hurt, lovesickness for miles in every direction, emanating from this club across the country, world, and intergalactic beyond.
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:32AMSunday, October 14, 2018
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…
SOURCE: Culture Bot at 11:12AMWednesday, 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 10:32AM 
