Month: July 2018

  • Crocodile Tears: The Problem of Empathetic Art

    Crocodile Tears: The Problem of Empathetic Art

    What controversies like Robert Lepage’s “SLĀV” reveal about the shortcomings of art practices

  • Five Questions with Mateo Hurtado

    Five Questions with Mateo Hurtado

    What’s the relationship between joy and the various vibes and qualities of my identity? In my life, joy is so damn important; I’m rounding out year #2 living in NYC after moving from the Midwest and re-getting to know myself while finding and building community which couldn’t be possible without joy.

  • Marie and Bruce, forty years later

    Marie and Bruce, forty years later

    Hammel draws us in to her experience, while granting us a bit of separation from the material itself (which is unrelentingly bleak, flirting with misogyny, although its view of the male specimen isn’t without contempt either).

  • A Neverland Dystopia?

    A Neverland Dystopia?

    This is Peter Pan set in a dystopian futureland, the music acting as a remnant of a memory of a time when feeling was more possible, when childhood was more innocent; before we found ourselves up against a neon wall, staring out at the void, attempting to determine if we’ve (finally, like Peter did when…

  • 5 Questions with the Creative Team for MADONNA col BAMBINO

    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 […]