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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 famousย hero.

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Veterans of Both Sides of the Falklands War Put Together a Play

by Zachary Small January 14, 2019January 21, 2019

Performed by British and Argentinian veterans,ย Minefield excavates the unsettling violence and futility of the 1982 war.

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Social Climbing in Lynn Nottageโ€™s Comedy

by Paul David Young December 23, 2018December 21, 2018

The playwrightโ€™s protagonist rises to the pinnacle of society only to fall back down to the housing project where she grew up.

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Sketches from a Magical, Multimedia Opera Set in a Soaring Cathedral

by Letรญcia Wouk Almino December 17, 2018December 17, 2018

Anthony Roth Costanzo has made it his mission to make classical music appealing to broader and younger audiences. It worked.

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Peter Brookโ€™s Meditation on Guilt

by Paul David Young December 15, 2018December 14, 2018

The Prisoner conjures a timelessness that recalls Waiting for Godot.

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After Almost 40 Years, Torch Song Still Lights the Way on Broadway

by Zachary Small November 15, 2018November 15, 2018

Until Harvey Fierstein changed the tenor of queer theatre in 1982 with the Broadway debut of hisย Torch Song Trilogy,ย gay figures in media typically came in three flavors: depressed, bitter, and suicidal.

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In a Santa Monica Parking Lot, Performance Artists Air Their Grievances

by Renรฉe Reizman November 13, 2018November 21, 2018

The 18th Street Art Center celebrated its 30th anniversary with We the Artists, a multimedia festival in which residents expressed rage and frustration toward the political climate.

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Spellbound by a Live Painting Performance on Election Night

by Kealey Boyd November 8, 2018

Tashi Norbu, who draws on Buddhist thangka painting, recited mantras between bursts of activity at a crowded gallery.

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A Missed Chance for Female Empowerment in the Metropolitan Operaโ€™s Marnie

by John Sherer November 7, 2018

At first, the opera seemed relevant to todayโ€™s re-evaluation of gender norms. But the narrative does not bear out this interpretation.

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Can You Still Stomach the US Constitution?

by Zachary Small November 1, 2018

Heidi Schreckโ€™s new play at the New York Theatre Workshop raises some difficult questions about how strong the foundations of American democracy are when Trump sits in the White House.

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A Marxist Performance Pays Participants for Oversharing and Simulated Sex

by Paul David Young October 25, 2018October 24, 2018

The directed actions in Ivo Dimchevโ€™s P Project progressed from audience members dancing alone in front strangers to nude performers simulating sex.

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Rafa Esparzaโ€™s Latest Performance Uses Google Maps as a Time Machine

by Laura Cadena October 12, 2018October 12, 2018

In his recent performance at Participant Inc, Rafa Esparza takes the audience through land and memory with the help of Google Maps.

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