The Corkscrew Theater Festival offers a lineup of performances from underrepresented creatives.
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The Beautiful and the Damned of Oklahoma!
A rebellious Broadway revival of the 1943 musical brings hatred into the heartland — a stunning indictment of America’s current woes.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton Collaborators Save Drama Book Shop From Closing
A recent rent increase had imperiled the century-old bookshop in the New York Theatre District , which has fostered countless award-winning playwrights and composers — like Miranda himself.
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The Viscerally Uncomfortable Feeling of Being Transported to My Christian Upbringing
The immersive theater piece Rochester, 1996 captures with discomfiting specificity the world that millennials within conservative evangelicalism grew up in.
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How the #MeToo Movement Is Transforming the Performing Arts
This month’s American Theatre magazine is full of stories of sexual assault in the performing arts. We talk to Senior Editor Diep Tran about the impact of #MeToo on the theatre scene.
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Support Trans and Women Artists at the Corkscrew Theater Festival and Other Queer Events in NYC
There’s lots of queer performance in New York this month, including the Corkscrew Theater Festival, the Trans Theatre Festival, the Fresh Fruits Festival, and the HOT! Festival.
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Where Gayness Goes in the Angels in America Revival
The revival of Tony Kushner’s play offers a lens into gayness in the dimension of history — what is intransigent, what is still promissory, and what is so profoundly disappointing.
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A Performance Digs Into the Family History on a Found 1950s Wire Recorder
Say Something Bunny! is a live documentary that excavates the found audio of a 1950s family, and considers what makes these mundane moments compelling.
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A Tale of 17th-Century Witchcraft Staged in NYC’s Oldest House
The Visitation brought an immersive play on 17th-century witchcraft to the Wyckoff House, the oldest home in New York City.
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Going Backstage with a Theater’s Ghosts
“Ghost Light” by Third Rail Projects uses every dressing room and stairwell of Lincoln Center’s Claire Tow Theater to immerse audiences in the mechanics and magic of the theater.
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Fruits of a Fictitious Expedition Fill the Oldest Built Museum in the United States
H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum in Baltimore’s 1814 Peale Museum, the first built museum in the United States, offers visitors a complex narrative of time travel and colonialism.
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An Episode of Immersive Theater Unravels for an Audience of Five
Here is a new series of immersive theater experiences in New York that will link an evolving web of characters and storylines propelled by loss.
