Author: Julia May Jonas
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IF IT LOOKS LIKE A LIFE: NEW GEORGES PRESENTS ‘LEAP AND THE NET WILL APPEAR’ AT THE FLEA
Does the key to life come less from real knowledge and more from a sense of rhythm? Pattern recognition? A skewed version of the old saying, “If it looks like a life, and it walks like a life, then it must be a life?”
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Jarcho Riffs on PHEDRE: “pathetic” at Abrons Arts Center
pathetic is writer/director Julia Jarcho’s riff on Racine’s Phedre, the neo-classical exploration of a woman’s lust, so of course it takes place in a high school.
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5 Questions with the Creative Team for MADONNA col BAMBINO
MADONNA col BAMBINO is written by Sarah Einspanier, composed by Deepali Gupta, directed and developed by Caitlin Sullivan. Structured like a speculative science fiction mass, the play is trippy, eerily precise, weirdly reverential, profoundly moving and deeply funny. It runs July 18th through July 21st at the New Ohio Ice Factory Festival. (Tickets $20.) Can you…
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“These People Seem Like Republicans”: Rebecca Patek takes on shame, rapey logic and misogyny with CHASM
With CHASM I wanted a way to get that back because I feel like that’s not about a career, or being an artist, it’s mine, it’s what I do, it’s what I’ve always done. It feels necessary for survival.