Author: Maxwell Cosmo Cramer
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Loves Labours Livestreamed
Maxwell Cosmo Cramer reflects on Cecilia Corrigan’s “The Gay Divorce” at The Brick Theater | June 11-20, 2026
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Tele-Violet’s “Lady Han” at Incubator Arts Project
Tele-Violet’s Lady Han, which refracts the 15th century Noh drama through the goggles of an Americana fever dream, premiered at Incubator Arts Project this month. The emerging NYC theater company, led by stage director Katherine Brook, uses the classical Japanese text, Zeami in Royall Tyler’s translation, as a structure of longing for a different kind of New York theater and an armature…
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Adhesive Theater Project’s “The Service Road” by Erin Courtney
Oh, the puppets! Last last weekend took me to Erin Courtney’s The Service Road directed by Meghan Finn in an Adhesive Theater Project production at the New York City College of Technology’s Voorhees Theater. Like a rude person, I was 15 minutes late.
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The Debate Society’s “Blood Play” at UtR 2013
I loved the little perspective window of the backyard! The sound the old blow-dryer made! How alienating to see non-alienated acting! Last Saturday took me to the Public for The Debate Society‘s Blood Play–part of the 2013 Under the Radar Festival–that celebrated pageant of vintage drinking games spliced with supernatural howls of wounded boyhood. I…
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Other Forces 2013: Nellie Tinder’s “Evelyn in Concert” at Incubator Arts Project
Incubator Arts Project’s Other Forces presented the return of Nellie Tinder‘s Evelyn, as Evelyn in Concert, this month. I would say, “Go!” like Andy did when it played at the Bushwick Starr a year ago but the work just completed its run and I am posting late like a “pig fool” (to quote Zoë Geltman’s Elisa). I wish I had seen the celebrated ’12 iteration too…
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Other Forces 2013: James Moore Performs John Zorn’s “The Book of Heads” at Incubator Arts Project
Completing the triad of Incubator Arts Project’s Other Forces is multi-instrumentalist James Moore’s performance of The Book Of Heads, a series of 35 études for guitar written by downtown luminary John Zorn at the age of 25 (that’s 1978). As primarily a student of acting and theater, I feel a little sheepish but excited to…
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Other Forces 2013: Julia Jarcho’s “Grimly Handsome” at Incubator Arts Project
“I know your name.” “You do?” “Yeah.” “What is it?” “Guess.” In that charming and creepy flirtation we bear some witness to the seductive, eerie, and violent relations to identity and intimacy under investigation in Julia Jarcho‘s new work, Grimly Handsome, playing at the Incubator Arts Project through January 20th as part of Other Forces 2013.
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Buran Theater’s “Nightmares” at The Brick
What happens to “the sublime” of European Romanticism after the death of the author and the birth of tumblr? Can you “share” it? Can you “like” it? And can you stage it? “I would love if someone saw the show and said, ‘I’m going to do that.’ Because it would be impossible,” said co-director/co-choreographer/co-producer Theresa…
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foolsFURY and Sheila Callaghan’s “Port Out, Starboard Home” at La MaMa
“Where is bliss?” asks the San Francisco ensemble’s latest, an impish collaboration with the bi-coastal playwright/screenwriter.
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Big Dance Theater and Sibyl Kempson’s “Ich, Kurbisgeist” at the Chocolate Factory
“DO NOT OPEN”
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Prelude.12: An Interview with William Burke
The writer/director discusses his Elmo monodrama “Furry”.
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Staging the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Slippery Temporalities With Polybe+Seats
The NYC theater company is “breaking apart the actual location we are working in and taking this space and trying to distill…the spirit of the Yard.”