Since 2015, actor and activist Siobhan O’Loughlin has staged “Broken Bone Bathtub” around the world in the intimate space of a private bathroom.
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Immersive Artistic Journeys for Audiences of One
The New York-based Odyssey Works crafts incredibly personal journeys for one person, supported by an engaged community of artists.
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A Play on the Usual Underground Railroad Story
In the play Underground Railroad Game, currently at Ars Nova, there is no clear North and South on the compass of racialized human desire.
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An Acrobat Embodies the Weightless Beauty Before a Fall
The Brooklyn Academy of Music presented French acrobat Yoann Bourgeois’s nouveau cirque Minuit for the first time in the United States.
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Six Strangers Searching for Their Voices
There is hardly any dialogue in Small Mouth Sounds, a play about six weekend retreaters who have taken vows of silence.
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A 1944 Dalí Backdrop Gets Its Own Surreal Circus
The archives of the Metropolitan Opera can seem like some kind of pharaonic tomb, packed as they are with theatrical treasures.
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Actors Have Been Dying to Play the Skeletal Role of Yorick in ‘Hamlet’
Reports last month suggested that the skull of playwright William Shakespeare was no longer in his grave.
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Six Characters in Search of a Puppetmaster
Luigi Pirandello’s iconic play Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) is being reimagined at La MaMa this month.
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An Immersive Theater Trip to a 1970s Tropical Paradise
Only minutes after walking through a hallway painted like the cabin of an airplane and handing my mock boarding pass to a charming man in a Hawaiian shirt, who greeted me with a lei, I was in a secret room getting a tarot reading.
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A Theater’s 18th-Century Thunder Run Rumbles Once More
The thunderstorm in the third act of Shakespeare’s King Lear will rumble ominously in the Bristol Old Vic’s production of the play this summer thanks to 18th-century sound effects.
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How Graphic Designers Around the World Interpret Shakespeare
When the Globe Theatre along London’s River Thames opened in 1599, a flag depicting Hercules hoisting a globe announced the opening of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
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Hearing a Poignant Eulogy in David Bowie’s First Musical
The musical Lazarus, currently nearing the end of a sold-out run at the New York Theatre Workshop, is the closest we’ll get to a final David Bowie performance.
