Performance
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.
Performance
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
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.
Performance
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.
Performance
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.
Performance
The roster of simultaneous festivals that regularly occur in January in New York can be overwhelming.
Performance
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.
Art
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.
Performance
Courtney Love's rock opera duet with Todd Almond packed a small black box at the Here Art Center.
Performance
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!" chants the beaming cast of Faye Driscoll's Thank You for Coming: Attendance as if greeting party guests.
Performance
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.
Performance
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.