Theo Armstrong

American Ghoul at Suite/SPACE 2022

Something was exhumed on the stage that night— what it was still haunts me.

Sha Creative Outlet: XS at The Center at West Park

Like a giant notebook portfolio or a crumpled map in the glove box of a borrowed car, the paper endures, holds the changes, shows the history of Sha and Sarah’s togetherness— and our witnessing of that togetherness.

Acheron: Brutal and Brilliant at New Ohio

Two figures approach each other. They could be brothers, countrymen, mortal enemies. In a world obsessed with borders, they are fundamentally different and dangerously similar.

Queer Joy on the Beach

Waves crashed on the sand and ambient beats wafted from the DJ tent. Rainbow flags marked a sacred circle on the beach: beyond the luxurious summer homes and expensive restaurants, a brave queer oasis for experimental art emerged.

Hyperfantasia at The Brick Theater

Question everything. Laugh often. And be proud as peacocks, amoebas and hominids—you’re alive, and it’s June!

Main Character Syndrome

If performance is an intersection between the realness of live embodiment and the fantastical suspension of reality, then this is true performance.

“P I N E” by m i c c a @ Beach 81st, Far Rockaway

I put my arms around the dry branches, sunk my face between the needles. I remembered holding you like this before you left. I remembered when we did this without thinking.

Creative Outlet: A Conversation with Shannon Yu

Paper. A tongue? A face? Hands, elbows, emerging body parts. Two bodies. Questions. Who are they to each other? Will they ever come out from behind the semi-translucent wall? Conceal and reveal. Discovery. Peekaboo, peep show, peeling back wrapping paper; pulling the curtain open in a stranger’s house to see a familiar smile.