Performance
The Original Forger of Magic
No one was as successful at impersonation and forgery as William Ellsworth Robinson, nor has anyone failed as spectacularly.
Performance
Interview
Meet the NYC Art Community: Kia LaBeija Is Prioritizing Stillness
An interview series spotlighting New York’s creative community. Hear directly from artists, curators, and art workers about their current projects and personal quirks.
Art
Dancers and Performers Offer “Real Talk” on Canceled Shows, Contracts, and More
This week, contributors to the living document “Creating New Futures” will host a conversation focused the ripple effects of the pandemic and the need for radical change in the arts.
Art
Johanna Went, the “Hyena of Performance Art”
Messy, anarchic, and sexualized, Went’s performances around Los Angeles from the late 1970s through the '80s refused to be reduced to a single thing.
Performance
The Inheritance, a Play Haunted by Outdated Gay Archetypes
Having now announced it will close on March 15 (earlier than expected), we might look at exactly why The Inheritance failed to connect with New York audiences.
Performance
Two Plays by Downtown Legend María Irene Fornés
These plays depict a reality that seems familiar and plausible yet feels dreamlike, monumental, and mythical.
Performance
Pole Dancing to the US National Anthem
Gerard & Kelly’s performance State of unpacks enduring symbols of nationalism, patriotism, and masculinity.
Performance
The Spiritual Side of Performance
A performance series that asks, “What is sacredness?”
Performance
A Minimalist Take on Medea Delivers Maximal Drama
In Simon Stone's adaptation, the conflict is not cultural but psychological, and viewers can’t help but empathize with her.
Performance
Staging the Work of Ballet Amid Noguchi's Expressive Sculptures
For Contract and Release, choreographed by Brendan Fernandes, three dancers assume their positions amid a selection of Noguchi’s works that allude to the human form and proceed to slowly perform a prescribed set of tasks.
Performance
Mourning through Performance, or Performative Mourning?
At Performa, Huang Po-Chih and Su Hui-Yu each staged theatrical productions concerning collective mourning and memorialization. Yet while Su built upon his own relationship to a story of loss, Huang seemed to impose himself upon someone else’s.
Performance
Staging a History of Violence
Schaubühne Berlin vividly adapts the author Édouard Louis’s first-person account of the experience of rape and attempted murder.