80 stories by "Maura Donohue"
Aynsley premieres "And" at Abrons on 3/30. "And" is an evening-length solo performance/monologue using experimental literary devices to create a series of live essays that hold multiple tru…
Springtime in Nickyland and One-in-Themselves at La MaMa
On Presidents Day in The Club at La MaMa, Nicky Paraiso gathered a packed house of artists and audience members for an evening of protest, stories, songs, dances, reveries and resistance as …
CultureHub's "Hi-Fi, Wi-FI, Sci-Fi," a collection of plays by iconic playwright Robert Patrick opens Thursday at La MaMa's Downstairs Theater. This production connects us with an expansively…
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and M. Lamar are Incomprehensible, Jen Rosenblit claps hands, and Lucy Sexton, Lisa Kron, Yvonne Rainer and The Bessies celebrate Judy Hussie-Taylor, Rockette Phoebe Pe…
Monday morning performance hangover is cured by a talk moderated by Tara Aisha Willis, and the works of Julianna May, Ni'Ja Whitson/The NWA Project and Wendell Cooper/Mx. Oops..."in all my l…
Emily Johnson/Catalyst is an artist for the coming age. Big Dance Theater's subversively brilliant, mmm... at this point in their careers perhaps brilliantly subversive makes more sense. Day…
Several times, misdirected/redirected, freezing and running in white-out conditions, I wondered why bother at all. But, sometimes it's all you can do to just show up... 2 American Realness D…
La Mama dispatch for PS 122's COIL Fest, Pavel Zustiak's "Custodians of Beauty" and "Bastard (The Painted Bird: Part 1)" and Squirts intergenerational queer pairings with stand up sets from …
Day 1 of the Festival of Festivals or January Feast: Based on last night's opening works by Will Rawls, Meg Stuart and Dana Michel I'd say the American Realness focus on the "breakdown of wh…
La MaMa's Squirts celebrates its 5th anniversary with a series of intergenerational duets to "mend the queer generation gap, or at least bedazzle it." Now more than ever... now more than nev…
The Poetry Project's "dedication to the amplification of radical imagination, oppositional thinking, and community building among writers, artists, and their audience​s" makes its New…
luciana achugar curates Naomi Elena Ramirez & Oren Barnoy, Cynthia Oliver curates Lela Aisha Jones & Leslie Cuyjet - the sum of doubling double pluses is manifold.
Christmas in Nickyland and Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel prove dancing and singing are practices of resilence and resistance.
With an impending Developer-in-Chief and First Son-in-Law eager to tear down historic buildings for the sake of more real estate profits, the preservation of buildings like 537 Broadway beco…
Judy Hussie-Taylor, Ishmael Houston Jones, Will Rawls and over a 112 artists, undertook a labor of revisionist history and artistic accomplishment that is clearly one for the books historic.…
Gina Gibney is a builder and a visionary. From 890 down to 280 Broadway, her centers are offering dancers of a wide range of practices space to meet, move and make. So, it is no surprise tha…
How will we ever go back after the planting that guest curator Eva Yaa Asentawaa sowed during last week's "the skeleton architecture, or the future of our worlds?"
You had to be there, but if you weren't... make it a point next time to get yourself seated at his feet and revere in his splendor. areyouready?
With this 11th Platform, curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones and Will Rawls to focus on the impact of the AIDS crisis, they've expanded across time, skipping across aesthetic differences, addre…
Everyone deserves equal access to a full, vibrant creative life, which is essential to a healthy and democratic society. – from Americans for the Arts: Statement on Cultural Equ…
Last night, La Mama, officially, kicked off its 55th anniversary season with Croatian choreographer Bruno Isakovic’s Denuded.   This is also the final program for the 5t…
Queer New York International Arts Festival Opens with Mamela Nyamza
Maura Donohue reflects on the political relevance of La Mama's production of "Pylade" in NYC and on tour in Europe.
Ruminations on Three Genres of Improvisation curated by David Garland, Roxane Butterfly, Tim O'Donnell and Sarah Young for Performance Mix 30th Anniversary season.
