Performance
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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Performance
The Slippery Politics of Weaponized Theater
Trash Cuisine is a play about the visceral horrors of political violence.
Performance
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.
Performance
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.
Performance
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.
Performance
What Elektra Can Teach Us About Sorrow, Rage, and Denial
Ann Liv Young, a performance artist widely known for reinterpreting fairy tales with an edge, has reinvented Elektra.
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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.