Performance
Stories from Prison, Set Inside a Fiction
Prison plays an ambivalent role in the imagination of many white Americans.
Chrysler Ford and Samuel Cooper
Performance
Ignoring Broadway Hype in Favor of Intimate Theater
Annie Baker’s style could not be more different from that of Hamilton: her plays are long, light on plot, spoken not sung, full of lengthy pauses.
Performance
A Restaging of ‘Oklahoma!’ Thrusts the Audience into the Action
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, New York — The original Oklahoma! musical from 1943 is set in the 1900s, during a much “simpler” time.
Performance
Confronting Our Apathy Anew with Samuel Beckett
On paper, Happy Days looks pretty unappealing.
Performance
David Byrne's Avant-Color Guard
If you’ve ever been to a high school or college football game, chances are you’ve seen a color guard.
Performance
The Slippery Politics of Weaponized Theater
Trash Cuisine is a play about the visceral horrors of political violence.
Performance
A Tale of Revenge that Runs from Ancient Greece to ISIS
Playwright Charles Mee is a master at mining ancient myths for the truths that transcend memory-torturing details and reimagining those truths for contemporary theatergoers.
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Stravinsky's Satiric Opera with Muddy Morals
Clouds, shadows, and other mirrors of the soul have long led protagonists into temptation in order to deliver audiences from evil.