The Futurity is a Musicality
A non-machine-based response to ‘Futurity’, a co-production between Ars Nova & Soho Rep playing at the Connelly Theater through Nov. 15, 2015.
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Kids on Fire (a response to FIREFACE at the Brick)
Fire, as a concept or symbol, has taken on a wide range of meaning throughout literary and dramatic history. I think almost immediately of The Firebugs, a German play written in 1953 by Max Frisch, in which a duo of arsonists go house to house
That Time I Left You For The Burlesque Dancer (a response to MAGIC TRICK)
Mariah MacCarthy’s play Magic Trick unfolds itself over the course of about two and a half hours in semi-fragmented short-to-medium length scenes, weaving a narrative that functions primarily as a lover’s messy triangle story (in which one person leaves a second person and shacks
THE DISTILLERY
A virtual tour of being in residence in New Orleans.
Together We Are Making a Poem in Honor of Life – a response from the circle
Grief counseling in the round, an immersive approach to remembering
Let Us Now (Ap)Praise The Work of Famous (Wo)Men
On 7 Daughters of Eve Thr. & Perf. Co.’s ritualistic cleansing of sharecropper shame, song, and the danger of appropriation.
Can You Believe in the Dark?
An interview with Tiny Little Band on belief, darkness, and how to build a show that seeks to disrupt certainty and replace it with something else.
Caleb Hammond’s ‘The Irresistible’ at Immersive Gallery
Plays, words, bodies, video, and music collide in this immersive mash-up of ‘Hedda Gabler’ and ‘The Bacchae,’ at the Immersive Gallery through April 25th.
BIG BANG FOR YOUR BAMBI BUCK (a reflection on Bambif*cker/Kaffeehaus)
In Bambif*cker/Kaffeehaus, Little Lord presents a smorgasbord of indelicate delicacies.
HOWL, WILL YOU?
Equal parts theater, music, and dog park, Comfort Dogs presents an environment suitable for howling at the moon.
Togetherness / Aloneness at Prelude 2014
Dan O’Neil on Prelude Festival 2014