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Pulling Back the Curtain on Caborca Theatre’s ZOETROPE

the beauty of the play is that things get really weird, really fast at times, but always go back to the tune

DISTANCES SMALLER THAN THIS ARE NOT CONFIRMED confronts the unconfirmable

It’s about how we try to use stories to explain things that we otherwise can’t explain, and how sometimes even those stories don’t do the work for us. How do we keep doing the work after the story?

In Conversation: Joshua William Gelb & Nehemiah Luckett on JAZZ SINGER

It’s the concept of being brave and having a safe space that is safe enough that you can feel brave — because it takes bravery to have those conversations that you know will be difficult, with people that might have a viewpoint that is different than yours, but in order to find common ground and to communicate with each other, those conversations must be had.

floating a queer celestial in Ni’Ja Whitson’s “Oba Qween Baba King Baba”

Ni’Ja Whitson queers divine kingdoms with cosmological meetings amidst a swirl of lineage, legacies and streaming star scapes. Salve.

Aloha, Aloha, or When I Was Queen: Is That Voice Still Mine?

There is a dizzying effect to the realization / acknowledgement of one’s cringe-worthy actions as white person to date, and Aloha Aloha gives that kaleidoscopic wheel quite the healthy spin.

Technology Is Just a Tool

Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty discuss “Why Why Always,” a cine-performance

Dickie Beau’s Imagined Self-Portrait From the Soup of Culture

The British artist discusses “Blackouts,” at Crossing the Line 2017

The “Violent Ambiguity” of Roberto Bolano

“Roberto Bolano’s appearance in the world is great for Latin American literature, for Latin American writers,” Javier Antonio Gonzalez, playwright and artistic director of the theater company Caborca, told me recently. “Even though his work is celebrated everywhere and people connect to it all over