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A Performance Protest Against the “Petty Thuggery of Fascist Monsters”

Avatar photo by Dessane Lopez Cassell October 20, 2020November 5, 2020

From sunrise to sunset, the Afield will present a new multimedia performance which mines the details and redactions of the Mueller report.

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Wandering a Hollywood Film Set Destroyed by California’s Second-Largest Fire

by Renée Reizman October 7, 2020November 5, 2020

In Fire Season, Monica Miklas invites you to the remnants of Western Town, a faux Wild West village formerly nestled in the Santa Monica Mountains.

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The Original Forger of Magic

by John Yau August 1, 2020November 5, 2020

No one was as successful at impersonation and forgery as William Ellsworth Robinson, nor has anyone failed as spectacularly.

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The Inheritance, a Play Haunted by Outdated Gay Archetypes

by Rennie McDougall March 12, 2020March 13, 2020

Having now announced it will close on March 15 (earlier than expected), we might look at exactly why The Inheritance failed to connect with New York audiences.

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Two Plays by Downtown Legend María Irene Fornés

by Paul David Young February 29, 2020March 1, 2020

These plays depict a reality that seems familiar and plausible yet feels dreamlike, monumental, and mythical.

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Pole Dancing to the US National Anthem

by Renée Reizman February 19, 2020February 20, 2020

Gerard & Kelly’s performance State of unpacks enduring symbols of nationalism, patriotism, and masculinity.

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The Spiritual Side of Performance

by Anthony Haden-Guest February 15, 2020February 14, 2020

A performance series that asks, “What is sacredness?”

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A Minimalist Take on Medea Delivers Maximal Drama

Avatar photoby Angelica FreyFebruary 11, 2020September 16, 2020

In Simon Stone’s adaptation, the conflict is not cultural but psychological, and viewers can’t help but empathize with her.

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Staging the Work of Ballet Amid Noguchi’s Expressive Sculptures

Avatar photo by Helen Georgas January 22, 2020January 23, 2020

For Contract and Release, choreographed by Brendan Fernandes, three dancers assume their positions amid a selection of Noguchi’s works that allude to the human form and proceed to slowly perform a prescribed set of tasks.

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Mourning through Performance, or Performative Mourning?

by Cassie Packard November 27, 2019December 6, 2019

At Performa, Huang Po-Chih and Su Hui-Yu each staged theatrical productions concerning collective mourning and memorialization. Yet while Su built upon his own relationship to a story of loss, Huang seemed to impose himself upon someone else’s.

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Staging a History of Violence

by Paul David Young November 23, 2019November 23, 2019

Schaubühne Berlin vividly adapts the author Édouard Louis’s first-person account of the experience of rape and attempted murder.

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Yvonne Rainer’s Conceptual Chess, Revived and Restaged

by Cassie Packard November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

In its first performances since 1965, the recent Performa revival of Rainer’s Parts of Some Sextets prompts considerations of how we can safeguard the choreographer’s visionary oeuvre while staying true to her vision.

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