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David Byrne's Avant-Color Guard
If you’ve ever been to a high school or college football game, chances are you’ve seen a color guard.
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Summoning the Spirit of Frida Kahlo Through a Pre-Columbian Ritual
LONDON — As the centerpiece of this year’s Greenwich + Docklands International Festival (GDF) in London, artistic director Bradley Hemmings has created an outdoor theater production called "The Four Fridas," inspired by the life and work of legendary Mexican painter Frida Kahlo.
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A Holocaust Survivor's Story in Postmodern Dance
Taking testimony from a Holocaust survivor and turning it into a dance is an intriguing but risky proposition, especially if you're not a Jew.
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Human Performers and Toddler-Size Robots, Dancing Side by Side
This is the year of the robot, starting with the movie Ex Machina and filtering down to the performing arts, which have seen a spate of humans dancing with robots in touching pas de deux.
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The Rehearsal's the Thing: Anne Washburn's '10 out of 12’
10 out of 12, Anne Washburn's new play at SoHo Rep in New York, puts a new comic twist on the genre of backstage drama by focusing on one of theater's most boring tasks: the tech rehearsal.
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Dancing Out Our Inner Demons
For dancers, the body is a surrogate for concepts and a tool for arranging shapes in the air.
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A Dance Shaped by Light
What's in a light — a spark, a shot, a shiver?
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Black Box Theater for an Audience of One
In the mobile black box of Theatre for One, there is only one audience member for each of the seven rotating plays.
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The Slippery Politics of Weaponized Theater
Trash Cuisine is a play about the visceral horrors of political violence.
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Hicks Meet Slickers and a Mesopotamian Sage: Sybil Kempson's 'Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag'
Sybil Kempson's Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag, in a world premiere run at the Abrons Arts Center through May 17, is the first production by her new theater company.
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Turning a Classic Soviet Sci-Fi Flick into a Live Performance
Layered with live performances, multimedia feeds, and casts in which everyone is an actor (including the cameramen and musicians), Doris Mirescu's plays channel the model of the fun house.
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A Tale of Revenge that Runs from Ancient Greece to ISIS
Playwright Charles Mee is a master at mining ancient myths for the truths that transcend memory-torturing details and reimagining those truths for contemporary theatergoers.