Category: Theater
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Commoners Over Kings
Writer and playwright Elise Wien on Kanika Vaish’s “2nd Murderer” at The Flea Theater.
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A Beating Heart
Patrick Denney reviews Romina Paula’s play The Whole of Time, which played at The Brick Theater this past September
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A Dark Future Now
Brendan McCall reviews Tim Blake Nelson’s newest play And Then We Were No More at La Mama.
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The Diffusion of Rules
Tess Walsh reviews the New York premier of Naomi Wallace’s SLAUGHTER CITY.
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The Inheritance of a Second Face and Divine Monstrosity: Celine Song’s FAMILY at La Mama
Writer Tess Walsh reviews the latest production of Celine Song’s Family at LaMama.
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Cameron Stuart in conversation with Theresa Buchheister | VIVIAN OBLIVION at The Brick Theater Oct 9-12
Do acts of kindness beget rewards? Do we become deeper by adding depth to others? It is hard to say, actually; I think the verdict is still out. But we have all the evidence we need, from history and from our own lives, that violence only begets more violence.
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Where Colors Have Meaning and Theatre Isn’t A Play: Julio Torres’ COLOR THEORIES
Color Theories by Julio Torres is not an Off Broadway Play. It may look like a play, sound like a play, smell like a play, but Julio assures us, it’s not a play. No no no, there was a mistake made along the way in the marketing, he tells the audience, who all gathered to…
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Liba Vaynberg’s Jewish, Fannish Dramaturgy
The Matriarchs: detailed, metatextual, instructive, joyful, pleasurable, cozy, unexpected, provocative, and confidently obsessed with the inner lives of women at the margins of a male-dominated text.
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Is This Government?: Anachronism and Democracy at 59E59
As a writer, my primary focus is the infrastructure – social and built – of New York City. This summer, I found myself in a predicament. I had the opportunity to interview one of our preeminent immigration activists, Ravi Ragbir; the problem was each day that passed, my introduction became more and more out of…
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A Forced Distinction Between Human and Non-Human Animals in Sophie McIntosh’s ROAD KILLS
Non-human animals are so often conceived of as wholly different from us: incapable of understanding emotions, governed by primal instincts alone, without agency. As human animals, we sometimes are confronted with the outer barriers of this distinction — the pet dog that is “part of the family,” the gorilla that can say “I love you”…
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Transcending A Gimmick: Pocket Ghost and As We Were Production’s OFFICE PARTY PLAY
“Why are you being so weird?” My fiancé leaned over and whispered in my ear. We had just been introduced to the Director of Communications for a book launch held in an office in Midtown and apparently, from his standpoint, I did not act cool or in any way collected. I will admit that I…
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“Make me possible”: Dealing with Precarity in Caryl Churchill’s GLASS. KILL. WHAT IF IF ONLY. IMP.
A glowing platform. A cloud. A white box. A living room rug. These are the four settings of Caryl Churchill’s series of one-act plays presented this past spring at the Public Theater under the catch-all title Glass. Kill. What If If Only. Imp. Written separately, Churchill’s short, punchy pieces range from the absurd (a girl…