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A Newer, Queerer Rendition of Oscar Wilde's Salomé
Oscar Wilde's oft-misunderstood, rarely-performed tragedy about the beheading of St. John the Baptist gets new life at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn.
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A Jaunty Walk with Bach
The Six Brandenburg Concertos is a gorgeously lyrical piece that kept those concertos in my head humming and cheerfully tumbling days after I had seen the work.
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The Viscerally Uncomfortable Feeling of Being Transported to My Christian Upbringing
The immersive theater piece Rochester, 1996 captures with discomfiting specificity the world that millennials within conservative evangelicalism grew up in.
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A Fantasia of Queer Kink Channeled Through Dance
This experimental dance show has everything: astronauts, Furries, the national anthem, a pyramid of cocaine, Pope John Paul II.
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A Performance in Montana Challenges How We Define Activist Art
Artist Mary Ellen Strom and Native American researcher Shane Doyle orchestrated a far-reaching and complex eco-art event at the Missouri Headwaters State Park in Three Forks, Montana.
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Wrestling with Iran's Strict Gender Roles Through Dance
Lilian Nejatpour explores a British-Iranian upbringing, using choreography to question attitudes towards gender and sexuality.
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Re-staging the First English Autobiography, Written by a Woman 500 Years Ago
The revival of The Saintliness of Margery Kempe, based on The Book of Margery Kemp, tells the story of a fiercely independent medieval woman and her contradictory path to sainthood.
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Artists Reflect on Water Scarcity in a Gentrifying Montana Town
In a rapidly growing western town, indigenous and non-indigenous artists collaborate with ranchers, ecologists, and activists in a poignant performance series about the local water scarcity problem.
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Where Gayness Goes in the Angels in America Revival
The revival of Tony Kushner’s play offers a lens into gayness in the dimension of history — what is intransigent, what is still promissory, and what is so profoundly disappointing.
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Nick Cave Lets Go in a Performance that Is Part Confession, Part Celebration
In “The Let Go” at the Park Avenue Armory, the artist explores jubilation washed with spectacle and an undertow of anguish.
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An Interactive Play in Which the Audience Members Are Dinner Party Guests
When making conversation with actors during the show, we were confronted with an awareness of how performative such chit-chat is in real life.
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A Performance Artist’s Tests of Endurance Honor the Black Female Body
As an artist, Ayana Evans challenges audiences not just to observe Black women’s struggles but to feel them.