under the radar – HOMEPAGE

January Marathon

Ethan Karas reflects on 25 shows over 22 days, January 2026.

February 24, 2026

Reconstruction-ism

Ethan Karas reflects on Juliana F. May’s Optimistic Voices, Agrupación Señor Serrano’s Birdie, Mario Banushi’s MAMI, and The TEAM’s RECONSTRUCTING.

February 4, 2026

I’m never in my comfort zone: a conversation with JoAnne Akalaitis

Unfolding across Thomas Dunn’s lush, stage-spanning, and pole-wrapping (!!) village diorama, Mabou Mines’ production of Beckett’s radio play All That Fall ran as part of Under the Radar Festival. Ethan Karas spoke with director JoAnne Akalaitis to talk Beckett, Cape Breton Island’s Salmon Museum, and Do-It-Yourself theater.

February 3, 2026

A Kind of Beautiful Fallout

Playwright and contributor Annie Rasiel on Anne Gridley’s (mostly) solo show WATCH ME WALK, produced by SOHO REP and part of the 2026 Under The Radar Festival.

January 27, 2026

Accomplices in the Realness: Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire & NIC Kay

The age of the ally is over, let’s be accomplices. Maura on Rosy Simas, Nora Chipaumire and NIC Kay at American Realness 2018.

January 27, 2018

CLUB DIAMOND – An Interview with Saori Tsukada and Nikki Appino

This January I had the privilege of seeing Saori Tsukada and Nikki Appino’s CLUB DIAMOND at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar festival. The work uses various forms of storytelling […]

March 10, 2017

Mothership of a Fleet of Festivals: My First Under the Radar

Festival profile: Under the Radar, New York

February 29, 2016

The Builders Association: Shannon Jackson & Marianne Weems in Conversation

This book begins with the building of a house, and the building of a company while building the house. It expands to look at the ideas found in various rooms, […]

January 12, 2016