Author: Katy Einerson
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A Slow and Steady Commotion: response to Sister Sylvester’s Maps for a War Tourist
But the tortoises bring a different element. They seem trustworthy. You can really count on them to play their part.
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Upping the Ante: Director Alexis Confer takes Shakespeare to Vegas
Director Alexis Confer is in a groove. After three straight successful productions of Shakespeare’s most well loved comedies, she’s taking on the notoriously ambitious, fantastical and wildly dramatic Cymbeline and […]
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Held Together by Skin: A response to The War Boys
Not more than 10 minutes into Naomi Wallace’s War Boys we see a frustrated young man jerking off to the Pledge of Allegiance. He’s part of a three-man brigade that […]
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Talking to the left of the pantry and under the sugar shack: an interview with Kristine Haruna Lee
harunalee, the wildly imaginative performance ensemble helmed by Kristine Haruna Lee, is transforming The Club at La Mama into a memory palace. The piece is said to be “a little […]
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Jazz in the Blood: Uncoiling The Holler Sessions
Frank Boyd is the sort of supremely talented performer whose craft is so refined it’s nearly invisible. For all I know, he might very well be a sweaty, smalltime jazz […]
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CHICKEN TENDERS: Peter Whitehead, poultry, and the art of collapse in Sister Sylvester’s They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain
Sister Sylvester’s new piece, They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain, opens with the company’s founder and director, Kathryn Hamilton, cheerfully and pragmatically laying out a few basic facts […]
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S.O.S. in West Virginia
A response to Ion Theatre’s Sea of Souls
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Debs on the Reb
Exploring Mary John Frank’s Debutaunt
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Behemoth Love at The Brick
Buran Theatre’s MAMMOTH: A DE-EXTINCTION LOVE STORY