What’s Good for the Kids Is Good for the Grown-Ups
A new essay on Howlround has ideas for improving children’s theater by ending the condescension and making more engaging experiences. The same should be true for adult theater.
Tag Archives: Theater
THEATREclub’s Clock Radio Stealing Show at Dublin’s Project Arts Centre
One of Ireland’s most exciting young theater companies re-presents one of their most talked-about works in early August
Target Margin Theater’s “The Tempest”
Director David Herskovits and performer Steve Rattazzi discuss the company’s imaginative new production of “The Tempest,” opening this week at HERE Arts Center
The Digest: March 16, 2011
More (lots more!) on narrative in theater, plus NYCB wants their dancers to shut the hell up, and more
Performance News Digest: Jan. 19, 2011
Why will dancers let you into rehearsal but not actors? What is the difference between challenging and abusing your audience? Why doesn’t Mike Daisey care that Steve Jobs is ill? All this and more, from around the interwebs.
Save the Date for the Bessies
The New York Dance and Performance Awards, aka THE BESSIES, return after last year’s hiatus. The ceremony will take place on Monday October 18, 2010 at Symphony Space in Manhattan.
Five Questions for Reg Flowers
Grow up is such a relative term. I’m sure this questions gets lots of creative answers.
Soho to L.I.C. to Philly and Back Again
[I’m tired, I’ll try and add links later!] Okay so Wednesday I headed down to HERE ARTS CENTER to see OH WHAT WAR, Mallory Catlett & Co.’s new multimedia meditation on war from the doughboy’s perspective. The set looks like a WWI trench populated by
My weekend.
Hello all! First of all, my apologies to Andy who seems to have really missed his writers. I was gone from New York and from the country, with often limited internet access and even more limited access to theater, dance and music events. In any
Oph3lia
Culturebot PICK! HERE Arts Center and knife inc. present oph3lia Written & directed by Aya Ogawa We know what we are, but know not what we may be… Three disparate stories of displacement, inspired by Shakespeare’s character, are interwoven in this haunting and playful exploration
Mike Daisey Transfers
We’ve all been having this conversation in private for a LONG time. Now Mike Daisey has not only made it public, he’s made it BIG TIME. Come join in the conversation as he takes his show to the Barrow Street Theatre. And then let’s figure