Speaking and singing in Korean with English subtitles, the cast leans on the traditional Korean folk storytelling tradition of pansori, and more modern musical accompaniment.
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Dancing Toward Peace and Healing
In She Who Lives on the Road to War, Rosy Simas combines installation and performance to address the immense losses experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Finding Medea in LA’s Chinatown
MILK is an immersive, multisensory collaborative performance exploring a somber Greek tale of revenge.
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Bruno Latour’s Final Performance on the Climate Crisis Serves More Questions Than AnswersÂ
The Terrestrial Trilogy shows how we can — and perhaps cannot — talk about pressing human and environmental emergencies.
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New York Stage Productions Are Feeling the Strain of Supply Shortages
When supply chains and funding fall short, theatre does too.
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How Do We Free Those Who Are Already Free?
African scholars Felwine Sarr and Dorcy Rugamba seek to answer this question with the musical theatre performance Freedom, I’ll have lived your dream until the very last day.
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Digital Theater Is Not Just a Pandemic Fad, Creators SayÂ
The art form continues to survive the return of in-person theatre, but maker-performers struggle with a lack of institutional support.
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Hope and Agony According to Felwine Sarr
Traces — Speech to African Nations is a spoken word piece with music written by the acclaimed Senegalese scholar and performed by the Burkinabé actor Étienne Minoungou.
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Circle Jerk Takes the Absurdity of Modern Existence to the Extreme
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the hybrid film/theatrical production is a dense and irreverent look at the performance of queerness.
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Opera Lafayette Reimagines André Grétry’s Silvain in New Mexico
The rendition could be a platform for essential conversations on sociohistorical and economic land rights issues.
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The Terrors of Whiteness in Wu Tsang’s Moby DickÂ
The experimental film, accompanied by live music, pictures the ecocide that a violently extractive ideology of whiteness produces.
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Jess Dobkin, a Performance Artist With a Unique Sense of Humor
Dobkin caught the attention of critics early on with her quirky and occasionally self-deprecating works, which often center lesbian identity.