Performance
New York Stage Productions Are Feeling the Strain of Supply Shortages
When supply chains and funding fall short, theatre does too.
Performance
Performance
How Do We Free Those Who Are Already Free?
African scholars Felwine Sarr and Dorcy Rugamba seek to answer this question with the musical theatre performance Freedom, I’ll have lived your dream until the very last day.
Art
Is Shadow Puppetry a Dying Art Form?
There are tensions between those who wish to preserve the nature of shadow play and those who want to see it evolve.
Performance
Digital Theater Is Not Just a Pandemic Fad, Creators Say
The art form continues to survive the return of in-person theatre, but maker-performers struggle with a lack of institutional support.
Performance
Hope and Agony According to Felwine Sarr
Traces — Speech to African Nations is a spoken word piece with music written by the acclaimed Senegalese scholar and performed by the Burkinabé actor Étienne Minoungou.
Interview
A Crash Course in Method Acting
Hyperallergic talks to historian Isaac Butler and curator Livia Bloom Ingram about how performance technique evolves and what is and isn’t method acting.
Performance
Circle Jerk Takes the Absurdity of Modern Existence to the Extreme
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the hybrid film/theatrical production is a dense and irreverent look at the performance of queerness.
Performance
Opera Lafayette Reimagines André Grétry’s Silvain in New Mexico
The rendition could be a platform for essential conversations on sociohistorical and economic land rights issues.
Performance
The Terrors of Whiteness in Wu Tsang's Moby Dick
The experimental film, accompanied by live music, pictures the ecocide that a violently extractive ideology of whiteness produces.
Film
The Jackass Series Deserves Serious Recognition as Documentary Art
The infamously crude TV and film franchise continues a tradition of cinematic physical comedy going back to the Silent Era.
News
Guggenheim Bilbao's Cleaning Staff Stages Protest-Performance Over Dismal Wages
This weekend, artist Lorenzo Bussi collaborated with cleaning workers to protest poor working conditions and low pay at the glitzy contemporary art museum.
Art
Betsy Damon’s Pioneering Ecofeminist Practice
Curated by Monika Fabijanska, Betsy Damon — Passages: Rites and Rituals pulls Damon’s performance practice out from oblivion.