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Meghan Moe Beitiks on Prague Quadrennial 2023

PQ has “evolved into a platform, which explores progressive approaches, new media, virtual spaces and interdisciplinary relations.”

How to look when there are so many options: Julie Mayo’s “Bluefire Sleepwalking”

It makes me become like my gaze, a promiscuous saccade. I am jostled and stilled. I’m curled around the strange heat of my own body, a feverish REM cycle.

The Theater(s)We Need Now

Okay. I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now – and I didn’t even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds – but I know how things are, I know what life is like, I know everybody’s busy so

SIGHTLINES: Amanda Hameline and Wendell Gray II

Two choreographers navigate the strangeness of the stage in works developed through a new residency in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Fractals of Prometheus Ignites

The flower we touch as children in awe burns. The only chide needed to withdraw. With undeniable power to flaw, fire will still flicker and die. For it lives, as do You and I. …a heap of various regrets, sorrowful realities of unfledged dreams, or

Big Magic in a Small Space: Notes on ‘Willa’s Authentic Self’

…strange, messy, and masterful. It might even restore one’s faith in independent theater.

Under the Radar Festival Gets Shown the Door By the Public

On the ambivalent legacy of January’s premier festival

Kayla Farrish “Put Away the Fire, dear pt.2” (in development) at La MaMa Moves

Put Away the Fire, dear pt.2 (in draft form) at La MaMa Moves last month moves in and out of cinematic and live performance structures, often jump-cutting from internal narratives to vigorous dancing

Shadowland at La MaMa Moves

Confluence. Storage. Breach. Darvejon A. Jones on Kari Hoaas’s “Shadowland” at La MaMa Moves

“Blessed Unrest” Misconceptions: A Mismatched Use of Traditional Theater Mechanics

How for the next few weeks these actors get to tackle conflicts onstage and then return to their everyday lives, undeniably altered. Meanwhile, before me, a performance was taking place. We were involved in something together, the audience and actors.