Best of The Summer: Alex Edelman’s “Just For Us” — A Nuanced Exploration of Judaism and Standpoint
Edelman always wanted to be white. ‘I know, I know. Dream achieved!’ he says.
The Uses of Obscurity | a conversation with Jerry Lieblich, Steve Mellor, and Meghan Finn
Jerry’s keen ear is tuned to productions of un-meaning—the kinds of nonsense, half-sense, and anti-sense that enable and mask violence, particularly violence committed in the names of patriotism and progress
Meghan Moe Beitiks on Prague Quadrennial 2023
PQ has “evolved into a platform, which explores progressive approaches, new media, virtual spaces and interdisciplinary relations.”
How to look when there are so many options: Julie Mayo’s “Bluefire Sleepwalking”
It makes me become like my gaze, a promiscuous saccade. I am jostled and stilled. I’m curled around the strange heat of my own body, a feverish REM cycle.
The Theater(s)We Need Now
Okay. I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now – and I didn’t even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds – but I know how things are, I know what life is like, I know everybody’s busy so
SIGHTLINES: Amanda Hameline and Wendell Gray II
Two choreographers navigate the strangeness of the stage in works developed through a new residency in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Fractals of Prometheus Ignites
The flower we touch as children in awe burns. The only chide needed to withdraw. With undeniable power to flaw, fire will still flicker and die. For it lives, as do You and I. …a heap of various regrets, sorrowful realities of unfledged dreams, or
Big Magic in a Small Space: Notes on ‘Willa’s Authentic Self’
…strange, messy, and masterful. It might even restore one’s faith in independent theater.
Under the Radar Festival Gets Shown the Door By the Public
On the ambivalent legacy of January’s premier festival
Kayla Farrish “Put Away the Fire, dear pt.2” (in development) at La MaMa Moves
Put Away the Fire, dear pt.2 (in draft form) at La MaMa Moves last month moves in and out of cinematic and live performance structures, often jump-cutting from internal narratives to vigorous dancing
Shadowland at La MaMa Moves
Confluence. Storage. Breach. Darvejon A. Jones on Kari Hoaas’s “Shadowland” at La MaMa Moves
“Blessed Unrest” Misconceptions: A Mismatched Use of Traditional Theater Mechanics
How for the next few weeks these actors get to tackle conflicts onstage and then return to their everyday lives, undeniably altered. Meanwhile, before me, a performance was taking place. We were involved in something together, the audience and actors.