Performance
New York Stage Productions Are Feeling the Strain of Supply Shortages
When supply chains and funding fall short, theatre does too.
theatre
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
When Artists Recreate Lost Children for Mourning Mothers
While entertaining at first, Reborning, which deals with the phenomenon of hyperrealistic "reborn dolls," progressively unveils what it means to be an artist in the 21st century.
Art
An All-Black Production of Much Ado About Nothing Comes to Central Park
Shakespeare’s classic comedy has a free month-long run in NYC starring a cast of two dozen African American performers, including Danielle Brooks from Orange Is the New Black.
Performance
A Close Reading of Slave Play Interrogates the Burden of Interracial Trauma
Why must we depict Black characters as eventually reconciling their contempt for whiteness with a prevailing, individual romance that conquers that disdain?