Category: Etcetera
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The Feel of City Politics and Fifty Pounds of Pudding
Contributor Kevin Ritter-Jung in conversation with the Sour Milk team about their production of DIRT at The Tank Theater until February 15th.
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A Vibrant Whole
Writer Catherine Sawoski on Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein’s FRIDAY NIGHT RAT CATCHERS, part of the 2026 Under The Radar Festival.
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You can’t make art if you can’t survive: a budget breakdown with the creative team of MY UTOPIAS
Ethan Karas in conversation with Jay Stull (playwright), Jillian Jetton (director), and Emily Abrams (producer), the creative team of my utopias, to get a peek behind the scenes at just one of the ways independent downtown theater is produced in 2026.
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Reconstruction-ism
Ethan Karas reflects on Juliana F. May’s Optimistic Voices, Agrupación Señor Serrano’s Birdie, Mario Banushi’s MAMI, and The TEAM’s RECONSTRUCTING.
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It’s a Theatre Question
Contributor Annie Rasiel in conversation with Sarah Benson and Lucas Hnath on TARTUFFE, which premiered New York Theatre Workshop this past November.
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What Will We Do?
Playwright Charlene Adhiambo on Nazareth Hassan’s play Practice at Playwrights Horizon.
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Kayla Farrish in Three Conversations
Kayla Farrish shared two new works, A Beast and DOCILE, at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s Black Box Theatre
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Outside Linear Narrative
Dramaturg and writer Miranda Jackel discusses Robert Ashley’s “experimental opera” CELESTIAL EXCURSIONS performed this past September at Roulette in Brooklyn.
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In FOR MORGAN, Nicky Paraiso Remembers and Reminds Us That Art Is Dangerous
As he stepped up to his piano at the beginning of For Morgan, Nicky Paraiso looked out the intimate audience at Pangea restaurant. “It feels like family in here,” he said. Sometime in the fall of 2023, Morgan Jenness (she/they) told Paraiso that she wanted Paraiso to sing and perform an evening-length cabaret for her…
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THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH IS THE: A Conversation with Hallie Chametzky on Gertrude Stein and Nuanced Reckonings
I was sixteen in 2016, when Trump was elected for the first time. I went to the March for Our Lives in Boston. I fastened witty political buttons to my denim jacket. I put “activist” in my internet profiles, right next to “dancer” and “artist.” I’d been online for years, so I knew the importance…
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Anne Imhof “DOOM: House of Hope” at Park Avenue Armory
It’s very easy to feel small, to feel helpless. But even in the midst of this dark time, we have the capacity to be present with each other, and through caring for each other when we are in pain, suffering, and fearful, to redeem ourselves and our sinful world.
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Elevator Repair Service’s GATZ returns to The Public
In one night, you are allowed to experience the character’s thoughts and emotions in real time, and truly imitate the feeling of working an entire 9-5 shift.