Category: Theater
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I’m never in my comfort zone: a conversation with JoAnne Akalaitis
Unfolding across Thomas Dunn’s lush, stage-spanning, and pole-wrapping (!!) village diorama, Mabou Mines’ production of Beckett’s radio play All That Fall ran as part of Under the Radar Festival. Ethan Karas spoke with director JoAnne Akalaitis to talk Beckett, Cape Breton Island’s Salmon Museum, and Do-It-Yourself theater.
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This is Not a Drill!!!
Contributor Sophie Frizzell on “The Wish,” a collaborative play by Justice Hehir’s, Dena Igusti, Phanésia Pharel, Nia Akilah Robinson, and Julia Specht, about the state of abortion access in America post-roe. Part play, part living document, The Wish was performed at Pluto’s Loft in Tribeca 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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A Disney World in Brooklyn
Writer and playwright Elise Wien reviews Hannah Kallenbach’s “Mikey Maus in Fantasmich!” performed at The Brick Theater this past November.
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Rifts & Reconciliation in Adult Relationships
Strength lies in the explorations of the daunting space between things: rifts in ideology; understanding; or born from avoidance; from denial.
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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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Commoners Over Kings
Writer and playwright Elise Wien on Kanika Vaish’s “2nd Murderer” at The Flea Theater.
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A Beating Heart
Patrick Denney reviews Romina Paula’s play The Whole of Time, which played at The Brick Theater this past September
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A Dark Future Now
Brendan McCall reviews Tim Blake Nelson’s newest play And Then We Were No More at La Mama.
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The Diffusion of Rules
Tess Walsh reviews the New York premier of Naomi Wallace’s SLAUGHTER CITY.
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The Inheritance of a Second Face and Divine Monstrosity: Celine Song’s FAMILY at La Mama
Writer Tess Walsh reviews the latest production of Celine Song’s Family at LaMama.
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Cameron Stuart in conversation with Theresa Buchheister | VIVIAN OBLIVION at The Brick Theater Oct 9-12
Do acts of kindness beget rewards? Do we become deeper by adding depth to others? It is hard to say, actually; I think the verdict is still out. But we have all the evidence we need, from history and from our own lives, that violence only begets more violence.