Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel @ BAC
Mallory Catlett and Aaron Siegel X Melissa Levin
Category Archives: Theater
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
Kate Zibluk in conversation with Egregious Philbin
Drag has challenged me to re-examine and expand my gender identity, which I now see as a continuum between my “everyday self” and “performance self”.
THE JOHNSONS: a Comedic Nightmare Version of the American Dream
It’s not always clear what we’re looking at, but perhaps Henry is tearing down the house, family, and narrative form itself with hope alongside rage.
Weird Lingerers: The “Heroes of the Fourth Turning” plot their battles at Playwrights Horizons
Their arguments, even when hate-filled, are lucidly formed and difficult to penetrate. There’s a weird thrill of uncomfortable relief when we find ourselves half-agreeing with them.
The rigged games of NO PLACE
Watching the three Players go through an elaborate and very tightly regulated game for citizenship to “The Promised Land,” the dot game would have been more than enough to create a natural tension between the players, with which to fuel their antagonism, and eventual alliances, secrets, and betrayals.