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
All posts by Jeremy M. Barker
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
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,
Crocodile Tears: The Problem of Empathetic Art
What controversies like Robert Lepage’s “SLĀV” reveal about the shortcomings of art practices
On How Not to Adapt a Complicated Book
Tone-deaf and half-baked, Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of “The Fountainhead” flounders onstage
Technology Is Just a Tool
Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty discuss “Why Why Always,” a cine-performance
Weekend Reading: Oct. 6
Canada abandons the arts for “creative hubs”; exploring relevance in performance at Philly FringeArts; questioning the Guggenheim; and more.
Dickie Beau’s Imagined Self-Portrait From the Soup of Culture
The British artist discusses “Blackouts,” at Crossing the Line 2017
The “Violent Ambiguity” of Roberto Bolano
“Roberto Bolano’s appearance in the world is great for Latin American literature, for Latin American writers,” Javier Antonio Gonzalez, playwright and artistic director of the theater company Caborca, told me recently. “Even though his work is celebrated everywhere and people connect to it all over
Target Margin’s “Drunken With What” Tackles O’Neill’s Take On Greek Drama
David Herskovits’s latest investigation into the art of theater kicks off with a pared down adaptation of “Mourning Becomes Electra”
A Performance-Installation for the Anthropocene Era
findlay//sandsmark + pettersen offer a bleak take in “o’ death”
Under the Radar 2016: 600 Highwaymen’s “Employee of the Year”
Working with a cast of five young women to reveal the richness of personal identity