Performance
APAP/NYC, the annual conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, has hit town. PS122's COIL, the Public Theater's Under the Radar, HERE's Prototype, Abrons Arts Center's American Realness and other festivals all over the city aim to lure bookings for shows by presenting work around
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Bertolt Brecht is rolling in his grave right now — but only to better see the provocative theater happening at The Public.
Performance
The musical Lazarus, currently nearing the end of a sold-out run at the New York Theatre Workshop, is the closest we'll get to a final David Bowie performance.
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The opera Angel's Bone, having its world premiere at the Prototype festival, opens with a married woman fantasizing about telling her husband that she doesn’t love him.
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In the final phase of Performa 15, which ended on November 22, a couple of performances turned profitably to music, creating synergies with standardized hand gestures in one case and the dynamics of theater lighting in the other.
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LOS ANGELES — Tired of being an internet activist, performance artist Kristina Wong left behind the comfortable safety of her armchair and computer to set out for three weeks in northern Uganda.
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Audiences entering the black box space of BAM Fisher in Brooklyn for More up a Tree found a transparent room containing a man sprawled on his back, and a woman nervously pacing.
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Performa 15, the New York performance biennial, in this edition looks to the Renaissance as its "historical research anchor," as the festival's promotional materials put it, though in practice, the historical tie is often so vague as to be meaningless.
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The designs and theories of Buckminster Fuller may seem like quaint retrofuturism today, but there was a time when his utopian ideas seemed to hold the key to peaceful and sustainable human existence on earth — at least he thought so.
Film
When I arrived early on opening night of this year’s MIX NYC festival at a former manufacturing space in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, I heard a rumor that there used to be a panty factory there.
Performance
The title of writer-dancer-artist-choreographer Ralph Lemon's new production, Scaffold Room, describes equally well the contraption on and around which it's staged and the way the piece is structured.
Performance
TORONTO — What do you get when you pair the work of a living composer with that of one from the 17th century?