Performance
Small Gestures of Humanity Amid the Ruins of Civilization
Science fiction is notoriously difficult to stage.
Performance
Performance
A 1944 Dalí Backdrop Gets Its Own Surreal Circus
The archives of the Metropolitan Opera can seem like some kind of pharaonic tomb, packed as they are with theatrical treasures.
Performance
'Antigone' Meets 1970s Radical Detroit in a Work of Immersive Theater
DETROIT — The oft-repeated thesis statement of this interactive theater performance is: “The only war that matters is the war against the imagination; all other wars are subsumed in it.”
Performance
An Opera of Love Songs to Science
"Maybe there’s a physicist sitting right beside you, who can explain this better than we do, but we're in the business of art, so we’ll make a metaphor," sings Hai-Ting Chinn in Science Fair: An Opera With Experiments.
Performance
Six Characters in Search of a Puppetmaster
Luigi Pirandello's iconic play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) is being reimagined at La MaMa this month.
Performance
Camera Obscura: Jackie Sibblies Drury's 'Really'
Really by Jackie Sibblies Drury had its world premiere at Abrons Arts Center on March 18.
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An Immersive Theater Trip to a 1970s Tropical Paradise
Only minutes after walking through a hallway painted like the cabin of an airplane and handing my mock boarding pass to a charming man in a Hawaiian shirt, who greeted me with a lei, I was in a secret room getting a tarot reading.
Performance
Singing the Struggles of Trans People in the American South
On the surface, the new musical Southern Comfort has all the trappings of a conventional family drama.
Performance
Restaging a 1979 Dance, Designed by Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Rauschenberg worked with dancers?
Art
A Theater's 18th-Century Thunder Run Rumbles Once More
The thunderstorm in the third act of Shakespeare's King Lear will rumble ominously in the Bristol Old Vic's production of the play this summer thanks to 18th-century sound effects.
Art
Resuscitating a 1960s Mural Buried in a Scottish Mountain
It's called the Hollow Mountain, the granite peak of Scotland's Ben Cruachan, since an incredible cave lies a kilometer below.
Performance
A Sultry and Subversive 'Snow White,' with Ball Gags and Pole Dancing
How many times you heard the tale of Snow White? Surely you remember the pole dancing, the wigs made of large birdcages, and the lithe male bodies dusted with gold.