Author: Jeremy M. Barker
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Weekend Reading: Oct. 6
Canada abandons the arts for “creative hubs”; exploring relevance in performance at Philly FringeArts; questioning the Guggenheim; and more.
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Dickie Beau’s Imagined Self-Portrait From the Soup of Culture
The British artist discusses “Blackouts,” at Crossing the Line 2017
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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 […]
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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”
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A Performance-Installation for the Anthropocene Era
findlay//sandsmark + pettersen offer a bleak take in “o’ death”
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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
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Identity as Action in Daniel Fish’s “Who Left This Fork Here”
The director offers his latest multi-disciplinary exercise in task-based performance
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Truth, Lies and Acting: Juliana Francis Kelly’s “The Reenactors”
In “The Reenactors,” theatrical realism is employed as deconstructionist technique
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Stepping Out From the Chorus
A decade after he helped pioneer theater blogging, director Isaac Butler looks back
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Ant Hampton and the Nightmare of Global Capitalism
In the latest from the “autoteatro” auteur, Hampton delivers a stinging indictment of global capitalism that provides more symptoms than diagnosis
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Jack Ferver Serves Up a Surprisingly Conservative Version of “The Maids” at the New Museum
Despite the rich potential, “Chambre” replicates problematic interpretations of Genet’s play dating back to the 1950s
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Mass Live Arts: Made in the Berkshires
Ilan Bachrach on the road from actor to festival impresario