Month: April 2017
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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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Sound and Debt
what do people feel is owed them in life? What do the living owe the dead? What happens to people when they don’t get what they feel is owed them and how far are people willing to go to bridge that gap?
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THE ROOM SINGS: MANY SONGS, MANY TIMES, MANY PLACES BUT IS IT STILL EVERYWHERE AT ONCE?
What stories can a space hold? As I took my seat at La MaMa to see The Talking Band’s production of The Room Sings, a play about a house throughout […]
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“Poor People’s TV Room” – Interview with Okwui Okpokwasili
Okwui Okpokwasili. Multiple Bessie Award-winning performer and maker. NYLA’s Stryker/Ranjelovic Resident Commissioned Artist. Mother. Human. Electromagnetic Force. She premieres her newest cross-disciplinary work “Poor People’s TV Room” this week.
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Mobilizing Bodies: Dance & Disability at 92Y, Petronio at The Joyce, & Work Up 3.1 at Gibney
3 shows from this past week: Edisa Weeks curates at 92nd St. Y Fridays at Noon, Stephen Petronio’s 3rd season of Bloodlines, and Gibney’s emerging artist program
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How to Hamlet, or Hamleting Hamlet – a response
One of TRE’s greatest distinctions as a New York company (in my opinion) is that they are always playing onstage
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The Revolution Will Not Be Hashtagged: A misguided Joan of Arc at the Public Theatre
Truly, it’s all about that banner: hanging there in all its Instagrammable glory, its purpose seems to be to absolve Joan of Arc’s creators of all artistic and political rigor for the next ninety minutes.