Author: Jeremy M. Barker
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Under the Radar Festival Gets Shown the Door By the Public
On the ambivalent legacy of January’s premier festival
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A Celebration of the Life & Art of Mikéah Ernest Jennings
Livestream the Chocolate Factory’s memorial event Monday, Feb. 6 at 5:30pm eastern
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Ontroerend Goed’s “Are we not drawn onward…” at Under the Radar 2023
Heading into BAM’s Fishman Space for Ontroerend Goed, part of the Public’s 2023 Under the Radar Festival, felt like finally getting to a long-delayed date. I’d been looking forward to catching the Belgian company since I first missed them with their career-making The Smile Off Your Face back in 2009 at Seattle’s Big Magnet festival.…
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“Poor Players”: The Most Entertaining Way to Do the Least Entertaining Part of Theater
Edward Einhorn has gamified independent theater producing, in a fun but remarkable educational exercise is demystifying just what it takes to make a play
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Live Updates – Monday, March 16
4:15 p.m. A couple more livestreaming resources. First, there’s the Social Distancing Festival. Organized by Toronto-based lyricist and book writer Nick Green, the site is collecting global performance streaming events and serving as a central hub. Much of the content is classical music and opera (thought not exclusively). Check it out. Also, Caveat, a Lower East…
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Thomas Ostermeier’s Magnificent Adaptation of “History of Violence” at St Ann’s Warehouse
When the Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vest”) protests broke out just a little over a year ago, the leaderless, populist movement was somewhat baffling – as with so much of French social life – for Americans. Beginning as a protest against a fuel tax combating global warming, it initially seemed the sort of thing Americans could…
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Everybody Hates a Tourist: Romeo Castellucci Visited America, and Makes Clear He’s Picked Up Some of Our Worst Habits
In summary: This should shouldn’t have been put up, here or anywhere
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The Children Will Show How It’s Done
Since it’s often hard to explain a good piece of theater – as Milo Rau’s Five Easy Pieces, which had its all-too-brief North American premier two weeks ago at the Skirball Center, certainly was – we might as well start with everything this show is not. Five Easy Pieces was, I think, somewhat dis-served by…
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Juggalos Deserve Better
A very telling moment occurs right at the top of American Juggalo, a new play produced by collective Unattended Baggage, at HERE Arts Center that closed March 3. After a projected slideshow introduces us in the briefest possible way to the Insane Clown Posse, Juggalos, and their annual Gathering, the text ends by cinematically rolling…
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Crocodile Tears: The Problem of Empathetic Art
What controversies like Robert Lepage’s “SLĀV” reveal about the shortcomings of art practices
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On How Not to Adapt a Complicated Book
Tone-deaf and half-baked, Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of “The Fountainhead” flounders onstage
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Technology Is Just a Tool
Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty discuss “Why Why Always,” a cine-performance