Tag: Theater
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Commoners Over Kings
Writer and playwright Elise Wien on Kanika Vaish’s “2nd Murderer” at The Flea Theater.
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A Dark Future Now
Brendan McCall reviews Tim Blake Nelson’s newest play And Then We Were No More at La Mama.
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The Alchemy of Small Groups (Part 6 of 6)
If the human world is organized in small groups, what are the qualities and conditions that make small groups work best?
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From Black Box to Broadway
Daniel Fish’s “Oklahoma!” in Los Angeles, Taylor Mac, Kiki and Herb and other tales of “Black Box to Broadway”. Essay #3 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.
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Satori in a Storefront
That time I saw Kristen Kosmas in 1992 and it blew my mind. The first in a series of essays about the power of live performance in small rooms.
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Dreaming Erotica with GENET PORNO
Pushing boundaries was at the heart of Jean Genet’s seminal literary work, Our Lady of the Flowers, which weaves a highly sensational tale of promiscuity and murder in the seedy […]
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Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s After the Rehearsal/Persona at Philly Fringe
Philadelphia’s Fringe Festival is comprised of two types of fringe-ing. There’s the Independent/Neighborhood Fringe–which is Fringe as we typically understand it, independent producers sprawled all over the city making weird […]
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CHICKEN TENDERS: Peter Whitehead, poultry, and the art of collapse in Sister Sylvester’s They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain
Sister Sylvester’s new piece, They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain, opens with the company’s founder and director, Kathryn Hamilton, cheerfully and pragmatically laying out a few basic facts […]
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Freedom, Assistant Directing, and Father Comes Home From the Wars
Molly Murphy, the Assistant Director on Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Comes Home From The Wars, sits down with playwright Kevin Armento to discuss freedom.
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In Progress: A Prelude 2014 Reflection
As a relative newcomer to the City, my Prelude 2014 experience lacked just that: a prelude, or much context at all, for that matter. And for that, I […]
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Theater should be a transformative experience: Milo Rau’s cheerful and non-cynical brand of political drama
Joost Ramaer speaks with Milo Rau, politcal theater artist and founder of the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM).
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Collaboration, Creativity and The American Revolution(s)
Andy lectures on how creativity, collaboration and improvisation are central to the creation of Democracy in America.