Tag: the brick
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we’re a rorschach test
Eulàlia Comas and Leah Plante-Wiener, who together make up the performance duo laialeah, speak with Sophia Parker about “Baby Butcher Choke For Free” at The Brick Theater.
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Rubber Chickens, Wrecking, and Tent Posts
Yeah we’ve done microphones.
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PLUTO (no longer a play)
This was a weird play, and I feel okay saying that because even the press release pronounces, “PLUTO is dynamic, simple, and strange.” And I liked the weirder bits a lot. On the night I attended PLUTO (no longer a play), running through June 3 at The Brick, at the appointed time, the audience was…
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If You Are Carrying a Pizza Box You Can Get Into Any Building
Morgan Green responds to ‘How To Get Into Buildings’ at the Brick
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Complicated Progress
Reflections on Operating Theater Company’s “The Oracle”
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Kids on Fire (a response to FIREFACE at the Brick)
Fire, as a concept or symbol, has taken on a wide range of meaning throughout literary and dramatic history. I think almost immediately of The Firebugs, a German play written in 1953 by Max Frisch, in which a duo of arsonists go house to house and talk their way into the home owner’s attic under…
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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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The Brick’s Shantytown Ball
Dance around in your barrel at THE BRICK’S SHANTYTOWN BALL! May 2, 8pm to Midnight A Costume Party where the Hoity-Toity meets the Down ‘n’ Doity! At Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO. A Fundraiser for The Brick! Limited time ticket discounts below! FREE BEER! from Global Brewer’s Guild and 2-For-1 Drink Specials from 8-10p.m.!! Great…
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Broke.
Saturday night I went to check out John DeVore’s storytelling-enabling show BROKE. It was great. If the bad economy means more fun, quality, cheap and entertaining evenings like this, let’s keep the bad economy around for awhile. No more hype, no b.s., just a really smart, funny, guy coaxing audience members into telling stories about…