"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…
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith's Prairie Dawn premiered at Roulette in Brooklyn on November 14th, 2024. This is a Black cis man's interpretation of their work.
"There's that reminder of the essence of what a show can do to people that are not from that world of theatre. It's beautiful."
"When a piece lingers for a few days, you realize it had an effect on you."
Richard: Loops are mankind's greatest invention. [laughs]
Trump's second presidency will change our lives, though the details of how are not yet clear. This was on playwright Jonathan Spector's mind the morning of November 8th ahead of the Broadway…
In the dark, anticipatory hush after the house lights go down, five male performers enter the stage at New York Live Arts and sit in a circle " an ancient configuration for ritual and the pr…
...this radical idea that we take care of our own species, you know? Our own species! When I say it doesn't have to be this way, it really doesn't. It's our choice.
 Dances are rarely historicized. They exist instead as ephemeral events, never repeated exactly as they were once performed. When a piece of dance is staged again in a new context, it ap…
I'd forgotten one more meaning of "free": without cost. Parodoxically, though, freedom, as "Quartiers libres" viscerally illustrates, is expensive.
Through recursion, the same body and mind, guided by the same lived experiences, encounters, and shares, new truths.
 I spent the two hours after leaving Honeyland thinking about how it could be rewritten into a passable show. It was a frustrating task. What should one do with a musical whose surface g…
The open-ended question lingered throughout the next hour as Dorvillier shifted between stillness and barely controlled, sprawling movements. What if I tried this? What if this has happened …
 The 'Cellino v. Barnes' play ads have been almost as inescapable as their real-life inspirations in recent months. Facebook and Instagram have become virtual billboards with plastered a…
A dissonant electronic score blares along. The no-holding-back moves highlight the untamed and unrestrained nature of the virtual sphere, where everything is performed, and everyone is expos…
Who is theater for? Where and how does theater speak for, from and to the margins, the marginalized, the forcibly displaced, the intentionally erased?
One by one, they collapse, until all that's left is the sound of the metronome, a painful reminder that time will inevitably run out for each of us, even for those with the most endurance.
They dropped to the ground, out of view for anyone sitting at the center of the audience circle, and they rippled back up again. Then, almost unexpectedly, they were in the audience. They fe…
As an artist, I can always give space or voice to something that I want people to be thinking about. The humanity of Ukrainians is one of the things I want people to be thinking about.
"For this piece, I have not produced anything new," he says as the show draws to an end. He didn't need to.
An appropriately multi-modal effort towards dialogue about Yanira Castro's Exorcism = Liberation, a massive public art project that began in July and continues until election day.Â
Few things make you feel as lucky to live in New York as being around artists at the beginning of their careers. This is certainly the case with ELEGIE, a nascent theater company founded thi…
The subtle, subversive brilliance of Back to Back Theatre's "The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes" at REDCAT
Matthew Freeman, like most New York City creatives, has a day job. The award-winning playwright, who premiered his latest play, The Ask, in early September, spends his time out of the theate…
The audience sits on sand while an artist simulates giving birth. Each one of their limbs dunked in a separate bucket of water, jutted in a prone crabwalk position, they declare that it is n…