Once Upon a Time – a way to play with SUPERSTITIONS
SUPERSTITIONS inhabits a world that relies on the use of language, strangeness, incongruities that are made congruous at unexpected times throughout.
Category Archives: Responses
PREPAREDNESS: An HR Session Runs Amuck
In PREPAREDNESS, a mandatory HR session threatens the survival of a college theater department.
The Return to ‘Sustained Energetic Collisions’ …in Red Hook: Ben Gassman’s BOTTE DI FERRO
Gassman is the real article, the authentic listener, who has heard in the city’s woke and hip aspirations, its angry and tired lives, and its ever-evolving demography the real meaning of ordinary anguish.
Harmonic Convergences at La MaMa Moves! 2021
A dominating thread of grief and healing wound its way through La MaMa Moves! 2021 and most of the artists brought song and storytelling into a festival that, as curator Nicky Paraiso acknowledged was full of resilient artists “making work that is essential and true to this pivotal moment in time.”
“A New Year” Series Brings Nightmares, Isolation, and Jump-Roping Dinosaurs to The Brick Stage
On Friday, a battle against nightmares. On Saturday, the struggle to accomplish one basic task. On Sunday, a dinosaur trying to jump-rope. And on Sunday, the crushing weight of depression.
Staying Alive, or Live Art in Odd Places
Live art is still here, and as Shelley understood two centuries ago, it will remain alive for as long as we do.
Being Together: A Response to PASSAGE THRU
PASSAGE THRU feels like stepping through a portal, a fable we get to participate in alongside the performers.
“Lucky Star: superstar” at the (online) Exponential Festival
Fact and fiction, inseparable, blur and tease. Cut to disco ball, still swinging. Slow down and watch the air sparkle.
What Do You Miss? Reflections on KAREN, I SAID
Eliza Bent is about as close to a recognizable brand as you can get in downtown theater land (I say this in a good way) – she has a specific and winning skewed sensibility and a propensity for characters, which I assumed would not be overly diminished by the Zoom platform.
Out of An Abundance of Caution Volume 27, The Brick Theater (Live on Twitch)
And then, time reversed itself.
Noa Weiss on Netta Yerushalmy’s “Distance Dance Demonstration”
We sit like middle schoolers at lunch, cliques separated by social barriers. People chat. “Did you get the job?” “The one at TikTok? No, it was a no. They said they’re on a hiring freeze.”
Black Dance Stories with Cynthia Oliver and Marjani Forté-Saunders
Black Dance Stories is exactly what it sounds like and precisely what we need right now. It’s a distillation of insightful moments in post-performance talkbacks spliced with casual conversations you once shared over drinks, plus powerful sentiments you’re overhearing now at BLM protests.