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Reenacting the Wild Art Salons of Gay Camp Icon, Paul Swan

by Angelica FreyMay 7, 2019September 16, 2020

A new play, Paul Swan is Dead and Gone, imagines the life of the late dancer, artist, and Andy Warhol muse once known as “The Most Beautiful Man in the World.”

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The Beautiful and the Damned of Oklahoma!

by Zachary Small April 30, 2019January 30, 2020

A rebellious Broadway revival of the 1943 musical brings hatred into the heartland — a stunning indictment of America’s current woes.

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An Unforgettable Wagner Production Caps Off the Met Opera Season

by John Sherer and Gabriel Grossman April 30, 2019

Robert Lepage’s production design is unforgettable, and the giant machine that serves as its centerpiece is distinctive enough to seem like its own character.

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A Healing Performance in the Face of Danger and Trauma

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 17, 2019

You Are Next to Me is a dense and complicated ongoing work that manages to be funny, human, and spontaneous, about interaction and healing in the face of very present danger and trauma.

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The Wooster Group Explores Black Folklore in Texas State Prisons

by Paul David Young March 16, 2019March 16, 2019

The live a cappella is a result of the conditions under which the songs were originally sung: in open fields.

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A Ballet Redefines “Wokeness”

by Dillon Heyck March 1, 2019

Dwight Rhoden’s galvanizing protest rally of a ballet takes on topical issues, while bridging popular music with arguably the most conservative form of dance.

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Beloved Drag Artist Subverts Art School Dogma

by Elyssa Goodman February 22, 2019February 22, 2019

Brooklyn drag artist Untitled Queen performance on February 17 extracted the earnest out of art.

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In the Swiss Alps, a Biennial Celebrates the Luxurious Part of the Art World

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 18, 2019February 18, 2019

Elevation 1049 in the Swiss Alps seeks to gather art world glitterati in the mountain town of Gstaad for a singular art festival experience.

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Everyone Falls for Everyone in This Operatic Romp Based on Shakespeare

by John Sherer February 15, 2019

Rather than sticking to a literalistic depiction of the woods of Fairyland, Robert Carsen sets his adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a more symbolic land of beds.

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Cauleen Smith Projects a Futuristic Black Utopia

by Matt Turner February 7, 2019February 6, 2019

Smith’s Black Utopia LP forms an Afro-futurist collage of sound and language, rhapsodizing on the utopian possibilities of Black space travel and astrology.

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A Close Reading of Slave Play Interrogates the Burden of Interracial Trauma

by Zoe Samudzi February 6, 2019

Why must we depict Black characters as eventually reconciling their contempt for whiteness with a prevailing, individual romance that conquers that disdain?

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A Play Casts Hercules as a Toxic Male (but Still a Hero)

by Daniel Larkin February 5, 2019

A reinterpretation of a Euripides play tells a seldom staged and lesser-known side of the famous hero.

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