Leaving Home: Do NYC Critical Standards Negate Generosity?
A response to The Krumple’s ‘YOKAI: Remedy for Despair’ via the questioning of how one responds to art and how dependent that response is on form and location.
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Passing On the Passed (Past)
I could go on, you should go on for me, counting heros not yet fallen.
The Art of Luv (Part 5): SWIPE RIGHT / ROKÉ CUPID takes on Internet Romance
“If a clone was made of you, would you sleep with it?”
On Not ‘Getting It’
When one goes to the beach, does one lie on the sand and watch the water? Or does one wade in until they can barely reach the bottom?
New Industry Standards – 3 Hole Press & The Art of the Published Play
In my early playwriting days, back when the majority of play submission opportunities had to be printed and mailed, it used to be very common to come across a submission guideline such as this one: “All submitted plays must be formatted according to accepted industry standards.”
Oh My God That’s Kevin Kelleher – Or, Does Specialness Only Exist In Your Mind? A Discussion with Tiny Little Band.
Stefanie and Jerry, in the midst of a mysterious project that I now know addresses (among other things) heroes, myths, and specialness, are experiencing, as a result of the process, a transformation in their thinking regarding such things
Considering Voiceover – via Kate Benson’s [Porto] at the Bushwick Starr
Benson’s voiceover technique does all the good stuff and almost none of the bad stuff that you usually get from utilizing a narrator in the theater.
The Youthful Circle of THE WOLVES
DeLappe presents us with a wholly updated picture of youth, in which social awareness has supplanted willful ignorance. The competitive and constantly shifting pecking order within their social hierarchy remains ever brutal, but the battleground is changed. This, along with the fact that we see nine (and eventually ten) women on stage, is what makes The Wolves a unique signpost within the world of new plays.
The Effects of Leaving Home – a response to NOTHIN’S GONNA CHANGE MY WORLD
A response to Mia Rovegno’s ‘nothin’s gonna change my world’
#liberated Takes On The Internet
#liberated, a play created by The Living Room and conceived and scripted by Lillian Meredith which runs at IRT Theatre through June 19th, employs two play structures simultanously with intriguing results. On the one hand, it’s a morality play, in which a group of women
Photo Taking and Theater Making: REALLY at Abrons Arts Center
Ms. Drury, without being too showy, infuses our experience with evocative contradictions, challenges, and perceptions of imagery, some of it imagined, but somehow, magically, some of it real, pulled from our own memories and allowed to commingle with our internal experience of the play for a split second.
CAENIS at Pace Gallery
A response to CAENIS at the Pace Gallery through March 19th.