Shared programs can be tricky. As a dance festival curator, part of the battle is attempting to describe a work of art effectively to the public while predicting their reaction. Putting two …
"I wanted to see the John Jasperse piece at La Mama but didnt have money for a ticket, so I offered to write about it," I texted Jodi Melnick, performer-collaborator in the piece" who once g…
I was sixteen in 2016, when Trump was elected for the first time. I went to the March for Our Lives in Boston. I fastened witty political buttons to my denim jacket. I put "activist" in my i…
The vibe was very: here we are in the midst of a fascist coup, what is left to fear? Lots, obviously. But the old obsessions with boundaries and criticism are too much to carry now.
As artificial intelligence takes over the world, many artists seem primed to abandon their inhibitions and experiment with the latest innovations. Concordance between art and technology is h…
I could picture the eye rolls coming, the sheer exasperation. There could be no other reaction. "It's a play about this Brooklyn couple" they've been married for years, now they're opening t…
As a playwright, there's something very special about an early draft " unedited and raw, a jumble of ideas that tumble out in the most honest and immediate way. There's the potential for so …
 Do I want to go to Mars? Not really, no. I was never one of those kids who looked up at the night sky and pointed to the stars and said "woah." I haven't even seen, for instance, In…
When I moved to New York in 2022, I was twenty-two, and I wanted to make dances. I knew a lot of artists my age and was lucky to have lots of great friends who had other great friends. (Mayb…
With her uncanny ability to capture highly-specific instances and deeply darkly kept-secret feelings, along with her bravery to really go there with descriptions of the body and all of its i…
There's a special type of actor who dwells in New York. Perhaps they've done film work" they're most likely still receiving residuals from Law and Order" but their primary dedication is to t…
Set in the year 2000, flip phones are everywhere in Humpty Dumpty. The two central couples, Hallmark characters with high-power city jobs, spend much of the play walking around desperately w…
Before seeing this performance, I had never heard of gay writer and AIDS activist Paul Monette. Despite living through the AIDS crisis, choreographer Keith A. Thompson hadn't heard of him ei…
Spring is in the air and, amidst the horrors, new productions abound! I caught up with Kelly Bartnik of Artemis is Burning to discuss upcoming previews for The Death of Rasputin, an immersiv…
TRADITION: it's what survives into the next generation, what parents and teachers pass along to their children, and what we find ourselves replicating for better or worse. If the present is …
As it turns out, Stein and Toklas did many things, some of them frightening and problematic, some of them strenuous and beautiful"all of them a legacy worth digging into. Chametzky was wise …
It's very easy to feel small, to feel helpless. But even in the midst of this dark time, we have the capacity to be present with each other, and through caring for each other when we are in …
A few weeks ago I got a gig working the book table at BODY/SHADOW, a Douglas Dunn + Dancers performance at Judson Church. In preparation I perused the books" all penned by Dunn" for sale…
When Deep Blue Sound announced its residence at The Public Theater, the playwrights in my MFA program were thrilled. Their response gave me an inkling as to what kind of playwright Abe Koogl…
 Every American town has some marker that sets it apart from every other American town. I'm not talking about geography, population, values, or even baseball teams, but rather, those qui…
The musical Rent plays an important role not only in the history of American musical theatre, but also in the lives, hearts, and minds of that special class of earnest young people: The Thea…
Imagine being told that what you have just experienced did not actually happen the way you experienced it, that it was actually just a collection of dissonant apparitions created by your own…
Sartre was right when he said that "hell is other people". Nothing can encapsulate the feeling of purgatory like a family vacation at a rented lake house. Sartre's full quote should actually…
I first heard Isabel Monk Cade read her essay My Way"which has since become, through a collaboration with director Joy Donze, a fully-staged solo show" as part of The Dogtown Reading Series …
These haptic qualities enable the audience an imagined point of entry into the onstage sensations, inviting vicarious feeling of the braided hair, the waxiness of plant fronds, the lightness…