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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.
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The Tricky Business of Dancing with a Robot
It's hard to resist a dancing robot. Taiwanese choreographer Huang Yi's dance piece Huang Yi & YUKA, currently having its US premiere at New York's 3LD Art and Technology Center, shows that it's also very hard to share the stage with a robot.
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The Wild Wild Fests: New York's Gathering of the Theatrical Tribes
The roster of simultaneous festivals that regularly occur in January in New York can be overwhelming.
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On Stage, as on Paper, David Foster Wallace Commands Your Attention
A supposedly and in fact fun thing I did this month was attend A (Radically Condensed and Expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, an experimental performance at the Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival.
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Brooklyn’s Own Briar Patch: A Funk Opera Takes On Gentrification
Gentrification has been the subject of countless plays and performances in New York, but the number of productions taking it on seems to have increased dramatically in recent years.
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In Rock Opera, Courtney Love Attains Nirvana
Courtney Love's rock opera duet with Todd Almond packed a small black box at the Here Art Center.
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From Glitch Parties to Participatory Skipping, a Delirious Dance
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!" chants the beaming cast of Faye Driscoll's Thank You for Coming: Attendance as if greeting party guests.
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Hymns for a Poisoned World at the Prototype Festival
The third season of the Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now festival opened ominously last week, with 31 young women dressed in black singing against the evil that can come with group control.
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Dancing at the Speed of the Internet
MIAMI BEACH — There's the whiff of grand ambition in MEEM 4 MIAMI, which is artist Ryan McNamara's new version of his award-winning commission for the Performa 13 performance art biennial.
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A Live Documentary Measures Humanity by Its Extremes
In his newest live documentary, The Measure of All Things, filmmaker Sam Green ponders why we're obsessed with the extremes of accomplishment, no matter how obscure or mundane they actually are.
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Domestic Workers Air Their Dirty Laundry Onstage
Laudicieia Calixto and Rita Oliveira enter the space of the Abrons Arts Center’s Experimental Theater and find themselves in a somewhat familiar scene: a slightly cluttered apartment, littered with fancy gowns, full-length mirror, desk, phone, assorted wigs.
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Child's Play: 600 Highwaymen Perform Employee of the Year
Perhaps there are a few whose steely hearts do not melt at the sight of a child in a tutu performing her first solo or, as the curtain rises, a lone grade-schooler pretending to be a tree. But 600 Highwaymen (writer/directors Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone) figures no one can resist five pre