Performance
Stravinsky's Satiric Opera with Muddy Morals
Clouds, shadows, and other mirrors of the soul have long led protagonists into temptation in order to deliver audiences from evil.
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A Warhol-Inspired Performance Pops in the Wrong Ways
In general, it’s very difficult to assume the mantle of a Warholian legacy.
Art
Reading Years for On Kawara
I have passed through 700 years in a single hour.
Performance
A Variety Show Brings Econ 101 to the Stage
Money Lab is a show about money. When you arrive at the theater, you have to buy chips — a few red chips, a few blue chips — and during the show, you’re supposed to use these chips to buy things.
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A Brooklyn-Born Street Dance Goes Uptown, with Mixed Results
How do you take a form of street dance and bring it, for the first time, to the theatrical stage — and not just any stage, but a 160-foot-long one?
Performance
Bar Exam: Richard Maxwell's 'The Evening'
The signature style of Richard Maxwell — a playwright and director who has received awards and fellowships from practically every major theater foundation, and whose rehearsals were presented as a work of art in the 2012 Whitney Biennial — works well in his latest piece, The Evening.
Performance
A Mashup of Ballet and Postmodern Dance
Dance is a curious thing: an art form that both defies and relies on genre distinctions.
Performance
One City, Two Experimental Plays, a Whole Lot of Creative Women
Last week was an outstanding one for experimental theater in Detroit.
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An Experimental Performance Captures Prison, Neglects Inmates
ALBUQUERQUE — Carlos Contreras glares down from the stage at Tricklock Performance Laboratory, animated and preaching into the mic like the National Poetry Slam champion that he is.
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Early Anti-Lynching Plays, Read in Light of Ferguson
Just two days before the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) released its report "Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror," I sat in the audience at JACK in Brooklyn for a reading of playwright Mary P. Burrill's 1919 anti-lynching play Aftermath.
Performance
Laughing (and Crying, and Laughing Again) About Slavery
Aside from innovative and well-executed visual effects, what makes Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play An Octoroon so remarkable is the unceasing state of anxiety in which you’re held from start to finish.
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Getting Lost in the Woods of a Swedish Vampire Tale
With the thick fall of snow over New York in these recent days, the city is the perfect setting for a beautifully staged Swedish vampire tale.