A Suggestion of Not-Quite-Right: In response to COOP
Coop seeks to remind us that we are here, together, and that “the piles of things we’ve forgotten” are scattered everywhere around us.
Category Archives: Theater
Fragments, Lists, and Lacunae @ New York Live Arts
No one goes into the archive unless they have a hole to fill. Archives are the remedy to forgetful minds, faulty sources, and even death itself. They promise concrete answers and facts.
TJ Loves Sally 4 Ever: Watch out for TJ
All those toxic names on our money, our buildings, even our clothing. How they got there, and what it might mean to strip them of their meaning and power.
Peter Mills Weiss + Julia Mounsey @ BAC
Peter Mills Weiss + Julia Mounsey X Tara Sheena
Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel @ BAC
Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel X Melissa Levin
THE CONVERSATIONALISTS converse with cinema
The made-up movie feels like one of those sweeping international melodramas with lots of expansive cinematography. In the minds of its creators, it’s an epic-length narrative replete with multi-generational strands and leaps forward in time.
DISTANCES SMALLER THAN THIS ARE NOT CONFIRMED confronts the unconfirmable
It’s about how we try to use stories to explain things that we otherwise can’t explain, and how sometimes even those stories don’t do the work for us. How do we keep doing the work after the story?
The Process Matters: a response to CAKE, a journey of fluid and frosting
Leopard slugs, and CAKE as a whole, provides a reminder to all of us that the romance-as-happy-ending thing is an odd societal compulsion, perhaps even an obsolete one
Do you Believe? Lucas Hnath’s THE THIN PLACE
We lean in, unable to control our own desire to be persuaded, even as we know that this is a play, this is not true, this is just another gesture in a world full of them
Thomas Ostermeier’s Magnificent Adaptation of “History of Violence” at St Ann’s Warehouse
When the Gilets Jaunes (“Yellow Vest”) protests broke out just a little over a year ago, the leaderless, populist movement was somewhat baffling – as with so much of French social life – for Americans. Beginning as a protest against a fuel tax combating global
Inciting Conversation: @GaryXXXFisher’s BLACK EXHIBITION
If you can say one thing, and only one thing, about Harris’s body of work thus far, it’s that it certainly seems to incite conversation.
Experimental Theater Built To Survive the Zombie Apocalypse: Radiohole’s NOW SERVING
even if death is on everyone’s menu, lurking somewhere after dessert, this evening, we survived