The revival of The Saintliness of Margery Kempe, based on The Book of Margery Kemp, tells the story of a fiercely independent medieval woman and her contradictory path to sainthood.
John Sherer and Andrew Summers
Andrew Summers has helped to provide content for PBS, WBAI, Paper Magazine, The New Yorker, and New York magazine. He is a frequent contributor of reviews and illustrations to Hyperallergic. John Sherer is a writer based in Brooklyn. His poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Point, Hot Metal Bridge, Botticelli Magazine, and Gulf Coast.
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An Interactive Play in Which the Audience Members Are Dinner Party Guests
When making conversation with actors during the show, we were confronted with an awareness of how performative such chit-chat is in real life.
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Mozart Hits the Coney Island Boardwalk in Remix of Così fan tutte
The Met’s new production of Così fan tutte stages the comic opera at a Coney Island-style amusement park circa the 1950s.
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The Somber Fate of a Manuscript Illuminator
In Written on Skin, currently playing at Opera Philadelphia, an illuminated manuscript artist gets involved with his patron’s wife.
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A Play Composed of John Cage Interviews and the Sounds of Daily Life
Chess Match No. 5, a play composed from excerpts of John Cage interviews, reprises canonical questions about the nature of music and art but adds no new insights.
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A Giant of the Theater Recounts His Childhood in Miniature
In 887, theater artist Robert Lepage recounts his childhood in Quebec City during the escalation of the separatist movement.
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A Performance Unpacks Our Relationship to the Things We Keep Boxed Up
Before Geoff Sobelle’s performance The Object Lesson begins, the audience is invited to riffle through the hundreds of boxes piled high around the theater.
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A Disco-Pop Take on ‘Medea’ Unfolds Across Multiple Stages and Screens
Yara Travieso’s staging of La Medea at the Coil festival was several shows at once — the performers themselves, live video, and other audience members, who were at times invited to join in the dance.
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A Scintillating Opera Is the Met’s First by a Female Composer in 113 Years
L’Amour de Loin, by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, receives a dazzling production that sets the self-aware tale of unrequited love on a flickering sea of LED lights.
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In a New Staging of the Tale of William Tell, the Only Flaw Is the Audience
Musically and visually, the Metropolitan Opera’s first staging of Gioachino Rossini’s Guillaume Tell in over 80 years is a tremendous success.
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Queering the Canon of American Popular Music
This is not your grandmother’s drag show. A 24-Decade History of Popular Music by renowned playwright and drag performer Taylor Mac is a monumental production covering American popular music from 1776 to 2016.
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Six Strangers Searching for Their Voices
There is hardly any dialogue in Small Mouth Sounds, a play about six weekend retreaters who have taken vows of silence.