Ann Liv Young’s Home Theater
Want to take out your phone and text? Please, I dare you, and I hope I’m there to see what happens. Maybe Young will want to take a selfie, or share your photos, or throw your phone out the window. Anything could happen.
Opening space for the inexplicable: loveconductors and ghoul|take III
The work is the group; the group is the work. It is an antidote to work that devalues the human. The individual is decentralized, but not devalued.
Kate Zibluk in conversation with Egregious Philbin
Drag has challenged me to re-examine and expand my gender identity, which I now see as a continuum between my “everyday self” and “performance self”.
mayfield brooks and Alec Duffy in conversation
There is no preaching to the choir when it comes to considering reparations, because there is no choir. It’s a lonely act.
Liza Birkenmeier on Dr. Sally Ride, the Scientific Method, and Sexual Power Dynamics
I went in with this insane piece, this musical phantasmagoria island site-specific thing — and came out with my most, sort of, small quiet piece I’ve ever made that really relies upon, for the most part, humans behaving based on characteristics that we can perceive.
THE JOHNSONS: a Comedic Nightmare Version of the American Dream
It’s not always clear what we’re looking at, but perhaps Henry is tearing down the house, family, and narrative form itself with hope alongside rage.
Weird Lingerers: The “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” plot their battles at Playwrights Horizons
Their arguments, even when hate-filled, are lucidly formed and difficult to penetrate. There’s a weird thrill of uncomfortable relief when we find ourselves half-agreeing with them.
Looking at LOOKING AT YOU: A Dialogue
I think there’s less a question of “what’s to be done” and more is a question of “how do we know what’s really going on.” It’s less about privacy in some ways and more about transparency of information
In Conversation: Joshua William Gelb & Nehemiah Luckett on JAZZ SINGER
It’s the concept of being brave and having a safe space that is safe enough that you can feel brave — because it takes bravery to have those conversations that you know will be difficult, with people that might have a viewpoint that is different than yours, but in order to find common ground and to communicate with each other, those conversations must be had.
WaxFactory in Conversation with Vallejo Gantner
I think we do talk without words at this point and use shorthand in rehearsals, and to an outside eye it might look like an old couple having dinner in silence, yet a whole conversation is going on.
BIG GREEN THEATER’S BIG 10: A conversation with Superhero Clubhouse
And as we talk, all of our conversations seem to circle back to time; the passage of time, generations over time, geologic time that the mind can hardly fathom. “It’s hard to ignore when you think about things like climate. Suddenly you feel really small – in time.”
The Show Lasts Longer Than It May Appear – WATERBOY AND THE MIGHTY WORLD
You feel, given the virtuosity and care demonstrated onstage, that you owe this much. You can carry all this. If you let it fall, it’ll break the spell. Don’t spill the water.