Monthly Archives: May 2016

Beth Gill’s Catacomb @ The Chocolate Factory

The Chocolate Factory Theater in Queens could present difficulties for an artist looking for an unobstructed space in which to realize his or her vision. Choreographer Beth Gill, however, used the theater’s odd dimensions and bare brick walls to her advantage in her latest work,

Crude in every sense of the word

The epigraph to Jordan Jaffe’s new play, Crude, reads, “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be” — Ralph Waldo Emerson. This quotation is followed by a dictionary definition of the word “crude,” offering six citations, from “in