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Going Backstage with a Theater’s Ghosts
"Ghost Light" by Third Rail Projects uses every dressing room and stairwell of Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater to immerse audiences in the mechanics and magic of the theater.
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A Faustian Satire of Our Shitty President
The new play Faust 3: The Turd Coming, or The Fart of the Deal is a gloves-off attack on Donald Trump — though it never mentions him by name.
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When We Crave the Story More than the Artist
The play Master invents an artist and reveals him to the audience through voicemail messages, eulogies, artifacts, and pieces of his magnum opus.
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Before the Trump-Inspired Julius Caesar, There Was Orson Welles’s Anti-Fascist Staging
The current, controversial Shakespeare in the Park show owes a more than superficial debt to Welles’s landmark production.
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A Performance Celebrating Female Defiance Goes Off Course
Jessica Mitrani's performance "Traveling Lady" takes Nellie Bly's 72-day journey around the globe as its departure point, but the result is less than inspiring.
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A Hilarious, Heartbreaking Performance Seeks Intimacy in Online Love
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble’s The Art of Luv 5: Swipe Right / ROKÉ Cupid, currently running at the Bushwick Starr, is the latest in a multimedia series exploring contemporary forms of desire.
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Making Art in Apocalyptic Times
An event at JACK presented five performances dealing with what it means to make art in an age of crisis.
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A New Play Celebrates the Lesbian Kiss that Scandalized Broadway in 1923
Indecent, by Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman, presents Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance as a triumphant, defiant showcase of queer love far ahead of its time.
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A Performance Overwhelms the Audience with Racism in an Attempt to Heal
A show at 3-Legged Dog relies on the premise that the patient — the nation — is so ill, the most barbaric form of intervention is necessary: bloodletting.
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A Timely Performance of MLK’s Final Sermon Takes Viewers to Church
The Drum Major Instinct, a performance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final sermon, sought to evoke that feeling of being in church on a Sunday morning.
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Fruits of a Fictitious Expedition Fill the Oldest Built Museum in the United States
H.T. Darling's Incredible Musaeum in Baltimore's 1814 Peale Museum, the first built museum in the United States, offers visitors a complex narrative of time travel and colonialism.
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The Embodied Life Writing of Aynsley Vandenbroucke
Aynsley Vandenbroucke has been exploring the relation of literary formalism to the human body in a way few writers, if any, are doing.