Best of The Summer: Alex Edelman’s “Just For Us” — A Nuanced Exploration of Judaism and Standpoint
Edelman always wanted to be white. ‘I know, I know. Dream achieved!’ he says.
Category Archives: Theater
Big Magic in a Small Space: Notes on ‘Willa’s Authentic Self’
…strange, messy, and masterful. It might even restore one’s faith in independent theater.
“Blessed Unrest” Misconceptions: A Mismatched Use of Traditional Theater Mechanics
How for the next few weeks these actors get to tackle conflicts onstage and then return to their everyday lives, undeniably altered. Meanwhile, before me, a performance was taking place. We were involved in something together, the audience and actors.
Broken Theater and The Vanishing Point
Hunter College MFA Eve Jacobs (in conversation with Ethan Kogan) ruminates on Bobbi Jene Smith’s “Broken Theater” at La MaMa Moves 2023
Two Takes on “Lunch with Sonia” by Loco7
Hunter College MFA Cory Villegas rinde homenaje a la oratoria en una respuesta de audio en español para el programa en español “Lunch with Sonia” de Loco 7 and Muriel Peterson offers her take too
Intergenerational Vibing in Chicago Theater: Young Krones and A DRAMA IN ROGERS PARK
That’s the mission of Young Krones. That’s Krone advocacy.
“Forced Beauty” by T.I.T.S. at La MaMa Moves
Hunter College Dance MFA Darvejon Jones writes about a program at the La MaMa Moves 2023 Festival.
Lorraine Hansberry’s “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window” Offers Up Complex Women and Self-Criticism in a Quasi-Solipsistic Depiction of the 60s
There are those cultural events that feel too good to be true – many stars align to create a perfectly satisfying contribution, almost all-encompassing in its thoughtoutness.
Thinking “La Machine de Turing” at La MaMa
There is an insidious thrum of accelerated timelines smashing together at the messy intersection of computational expansiveness, human fear, militaristic state intervention and governmental ignorance in “La Machine de Turing” currently running at La MaMa through March 5th
American Ghoul at Suite/SPACE 2022
Something was exhumed on the stage that night— what it was still haunts me.
Ontroerend Goed’s “Are we not drawn onward…” at Under the Radar 2023
Heading into BAM’s Fishman Space for Ontroerend Goed, part of the Public’s 2023 Under the Radar Festival, felt like finally getting to a long-delayed date. I’d been looking forward to catching the Belgian company since I first missed them with their career-making The Smile Off
Between Dreaming and Real in DES MOINES
…embodies what I’ll describe as a challengingly lateral Death-drive dramaturgy…