Category: Feature
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The Futurity is a Musicality
A non-machine-based response to ‘Futurity’, a co-production between Ars Nova & Soho Rep playing at the Connelly Theater through Nov. 15, 2015.
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Let The Machine Get It
A response to Rude Mechs and Deborah Hay’s MATCH-PLAY at New York Live Arts
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Criticism for Theatre’s Sake
The following is an excerpt from Chapter 20 (pp. 261 – 264) of Mark Fisher’s book How To Write About Theatre, published by Bloomsbury and released in paperback in August, 2015. In any discussion about theatre and criticism, there’s usually one wag who stands up and says: ‘Those who can – do. Those who can’t…
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A World Premiere Doubling as a Grand Finale
Th opening of “Life & Times – Episodes 7-8-9” marks the end of Nature Theater of Oklahoma as an ensemble of makers and players.
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Being In Action – Enacting critical discourse that prioritizes context, connection, and compassion as modes of intervention
Open Spectrum Critical Community Dialogues: Faces of Resistance: Young, Organized & Unified (#FORYOU)
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Jeanine Durning’s “inging” & “To Being”
She looks directly at me, and I show her how I’m listening. The exchange has nothing to do with language.
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Ant Hampton and the Nightmare of Global Capitalism
In the latest from the “autoteatro” auteur, Hampton delivers a stinging indictment of global capitalism that provides more symptoms than diagnosis
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Open Spectrum Community Dialogues – Faces of Resistance: Young, Organized & Unified #FORYOU
Open Spectrum Dialogues @ New York Live Arts, Produced in Association with MAPP International Productions and Critical Partner, Culturebot.
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Sarah A.O. Rosner & Lydia Mokdessi talk ETLE UNIVERSE
“Does art actually DO anything? That’s very nestled into my concept of time travel.”
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Katy Pyle, Ballez, and the Virtuosity of the Queer Body
There’s a way that the people around me and with me have developed a way of interacting with the world and creating meaning with their bodies—with their physicality and their energy—that is in opposition to expectations.
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Miguel Gutierrez in conversation with Rennie McDougall on “Age and Beauty” at New York Live Arts
It’s basically “A Christmas Carol” meets the Spectrum [queer club in Brooklyn]. (maniacally laughs).
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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 concerning her subject of interest: a documentary film called The Fall shot in 1968 by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead. Whitehead, we’re told, came to New…