Tag: Theater
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Maximum Performance (BETA) Now Available
Read Maximum Performance (BETA) Andy’s collected essays 2011-2013. Pay what you will.
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LeeSaar on “Princess Crocodile” @ BAC
Lydia chats with Lee Sher and Saar Harari about investment in process, being a person first, making work as a couple and the NYC premier of “Princess Crocodile.”
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Tele-Violet’s “Lady Han” at Incubator Arts Project
Tele-Violet’s Lady Han, which refracts the 15th century Noh drama through the goggles of an Americana fever dream, premiered at Incubator Arts Project this month. The emerging NYC theater company, led by stage director Katherine Brook, uses the classical Japanese text, Zeami in Royall Tyler’s translation, as a structure of longing for a different kind of New York theater and an armature…
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Looking towards Latinamerica // Expanding our notions of how theater is made
A New York director surveys the landscape of theater practices across the America
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Other Forces 2013: Julia Jarcho’s “Grimly Handsome” at Incubator Arts Project
“I know your name.” “You do?” “Yeah.” “What is it?” “Guess.” In that charming and creepy flirtation we bear some witness to the seductive, eerie, and violent relations to identity and intimacy under investigation in Julia Jarcho‘s new work, Grimly Handsome, playing at the Incubator Arts Project through January 20th as part of Other Forces 2013.
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Buran Theater’s “Nightmares” at The Brick
What happens to “the sublime” of European Romanticism after the death of the author and the birth of tumblr? Can you “share” it? Can you “like” it? And can you stage it? “I would love if someone saw the show and said, ‘I’m going to do that.’ Because it would be impossible,” said co-director/co-choreographer/co-producer Theresa…
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Scanning The Landscape at Under The Radar with Culturebot
CULTUREBOT and Under The Radar present a series of Long Table conversations on the most current and compelling ideas at work in the field of contemporary theater and the conditions in which it is being made. Join leading practitioners, thinkers and supporters of contemporary theater for lively discussions on the state of the field and…
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Radiohole Brings The Creature To Life!
Went to The Kitchen Saturday for the opening night of Radiohole’s newest work Inflatable Frankenstein. It was an incredible return to form – or maybe next step – for one of my absolute favorite performance groups. After Whatever, Heaven Allows (that felt rather inert & lifeless to me, not my favorite Radiohole piece at all) it was unclear what…
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There, There at The Chocolate Factory is Totally Freaking Awesome.
One day everyone will realize that Kristen Kosmas is one of the most singularly gifted, unique and important “playwrights” of her generation. And I am using the word “playwright” because it is, at the moment, the most familiar label for people who write words that are performed on a stage. But it is wholly insufficient to describe…
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Prelude.12: An Interview with William Burke
The writer/director discusses his Elmo monodrama “Furry”.
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Staging the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Slippery Temporalities With Polybe+Seats
The NYC theater company is “breaking apart the actual location we are working in and taking this space and trying to distill…the spirit of the Yard.”
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Culturebot and The New Criticism
Culturebot founder Andy Horwitz talks about where we’ve been and where we’re going in a manifesto, of sorts, gazing into the future.