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It’s been a long road since March 2020, but the world is healing and Mandie Rapoza’s performance art piece, FRAGMENTS, A LIVE AUDIO STORY, is a welcomed and much needed breath of fresh air in a world where in-person art has been almost completely dormant.
David Byrne is no stranger to creating theatre, quirky immersive experiences, or ushering people to the dance floor.
The first time I saw John Cullum live on stage his fingers were clutched to a window frame of designer Robin Wagner's art deco luxury liner, playing the maniacally flamboyant theatre producer Oscar Jaffe attempting to board a moving train in his Tony-winning turn in ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
This and other personal tales are the core of John Cullum: An Accidental Star.
The visuals may be left to the listener's imagination in The Public Theater's new audio play, but what lands on the ear takes Joseph Papp's revolutionary concept a bit further.
Even if Americans weren't recently subjected to the horror of violent deaths and the attempted murder of elected officials inside the U.
Health efficacy and academic bureaucracy clash in ADJUST THE PROCEDURE, a timely pandemic play about a group of deans and directors at an NYC college who meet to disclose, debate and deny a rash of compounding crises.
The Seeing Place Theater offers a futuristic glimpse of artists adapting to a changed culture in Liz Duffy Adams’ 2004 absurdity, DOG ACT.
'I am not a Beckett scholar,' Bill Irwin advises viewers at the outset.
For the first time in twelve years, Americans were being served by a president who fully supported The Supreme Court's Roe v.
While not exactly a moment of déjà vu, I did feel a sense of the familiar while listening to director Saheem Ali's new podcast production of Anne Washburn's provocative play of Trump-era liberal ideology, SHIPWRECK, subtitled 'a History Play about 2017'.
A good creepy play can get under the viewer’s skin.
PTP/NYC is known for producing politically aware plays.
After an impressive inaugural production of HAMLET in the atmospheric surroundings of Jersey City's Grace Church Van Vorst, Artistic Director Sean Hagerty's Shakespeare@, like so many theatre companies around the country, was suddenly placed in the position rethinking its immediate future.
When playwright/director Richard Nelson introduced Public Theater audiences to a family of Rhinebeck, New York residents by the surname Apple, he referred to his creation as a 'disposable play.
'What does it mean to have a Black man who is deemed unfit to rule and what does it mean to have a Black woman take his place?'
'I was lying in the bath last night.
'I guess I knew that you could miss the things you love; I didn't know you could miss the things you hate,' ponders a New York apartment-dweller who sees little reason to get out of bed as she lives in isolation in this era of COVID-19.
'The first cough in the audience and who's listening to the play?,' wonders a character when contemplating the return of live theatre.
For over two years, the Chicago-based Candle House Collective has been creating non-tradition, immersive theatre for both site-specific locations and virtual enjoyment.
When thinking of site-specific theatre, visions of following actors through a forest as they play out A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM or sitting in a musty old playhouse for a performance of FOLLIES may dance through your head, but in these days of government-regulated social distancing necessitating the
As someone who has indulged in all the creations concocted by the genius director/choreographer Austin McCormick for his spectacular mix of performing artists, Company XIV, since the early years of this century when they displayed their talents in modestly-scaled productions on East 4th Street, this
For BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, Michael Friedman whipped up an emo rock score that comically skewered white male privilege.
If it were up to Billy, the sweet-natured Unitarian pastor who opens Hilary Bettis' 72 Miles to Go.
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13 The Musical Griffin Theatre (8/14-8/23) PHOTOS |
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A Baby For Me? No Thank You, Please! Soho Playhouse (9/18-9/19) |
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Bailey Swilley's Gimme A Sign! Soho Playhouse (9/20-9/20) |
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LA GRINGA Repertorio (2/08-12/31) |
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Bailey Swilley's Gimme A Sign! Soho Playhouse (9/17-9/17) |
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LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA Repertorio (11/15-12/31) |
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EN EL TIEMPO DE LAS MARIPOSAS Repertorio (1/07-12/31) |
