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If we are to honestly appraise the people's history (those we refer to when we shout "power to the people!"), we must acknowledge the unceasing, if ever-evolving, presence of violence. A sen…
Kaydo knows that theatre is the perfect medium to reflect impermanence, and the specter of death is inside every breath of this play"but Kaydo has a light touch. He lets us listen and find t…
My performance practice has been affectionately described by a mentor as sisyphean"cyclical, futile, pointless and yet entirely necessary. Necessary for what-and-whom? I ask. As puni…
"There he is." Nicky Paraiso is sitting next to me and wants me to look at something on his phone. Ostensibly, we´re here at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery to see a show, the first o…
Language: as much as it lets us express ourselves, also lets us express how trapped we are in the prison of others' buzzwords, binding decrees, and unforgiving commands. We don't give babies…
Earlier this month hours before 'curtain' on a Friday night show at SoHo Playhouse, I chose to brave the 'last chance' lines and attend the Edges of Ailey at The Whitney. What I saw was comp…
In 2011, during the second year of the annual Fire This Time Festival, organizers produced the work of an up-and-coming playwright named Dominique Morriseau. The writer, now known as a MacAr…
In 2024, Talking Band and 600 Highwaymen presented "The Following Evening" at PACNYC. Here are some thoughts after a year's reflection.
Which I think says something meaningful about fantasy; materials become less messy and people become more one-dimensional and places become infinitely reachable and the perfect temperature i…
Like fear, desire can be excessive, often humorous, and represents a valuable state in itself "Â a totality of the sensation in which personal and social histories persist, and new insight…
When I scheduled my interview with Jerry Lieblich and Paul Lazar"in preparation for the latest run of The Barbarians, Jerry Lieblich's unfurling meditation on rhetoric and power (and the pow…
"Have you been here before?" I heard someone behind me ask, as we climbed the back staircase at Judson Memorial Church. We paused on nearly each stair as the line progressed. "No, I have…
The Suite is by Julia Antinozzi and co-presented by Live Artery | New York Live Arts and Triskelion Arts. Throughout The Suite, a story of requited yet restrained love unfolds between th…
Theo Armstrong describes some cool moves and asks Noa Rui-Piin Weiss and Miranda Brown some silly yet probing questions after seeing !!simon says~~!:));)$$ Presented as part of the Out-FRONT…
In a moment characterized by decay, destruction, and despair, it feels peculiar to find oneself in a place characterized by warmth, communion, and creativity. Out-FRONT! Fest., a week-long p…
 "Suppose beautiful Madeline Harvey" This single phrase, sometimes a question, always invocation, is repeated by three characters. In altering shapes, the words capture the essence of Ob…
A palm resting against each balloon surface, this was a gesture of care, of protection.
For Kate Hamill, the stage is more than a space for spectacle; it's a platform for rewriting history, reclaiming agency, and redefining how we see women in both art and life.
Learning to see Los Angeles through the hype and imagining a new civic dramaturgy.
Dimes Square, technically a microneighborhood of Manhattan between Chinatown and the Lower East Side, is renowned for its particular cultural attributes: an overpopulation of twenty-one-year…
Windows down. Music blasting. The wind in your hair. Exit signs, strange billboards, a succession of identical-looking sleepy little Midwestern towns. A clutch of empty 40s and tequila bottl…
While there is a great intensity that comes with Chaiwshe, there is almost a child-like wonder that dictates her practice.
In one night, you are allowed to experience the character's thoughts and emotions in real time, and truly imitate the feeling of working an entire 9-5 shift.
Last November, after dancing together in Alexa West's Occasion, occasion, occasion at the 2023 Performa Biennial, Amelia Hientzelman asked me if I'd like to do some dramaturgy for her. We sa…
"It couldn't happen here" was the reaction most theater-goers had to the news of the closing of the East Village's The Connelly Theater by the building's landlord: The Roman Catholic Archdio…
