Tag: Theater
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Commoners Over Kings
Writer and playwright Elise Wien on Kanika Vaish’s “2nd Murderer” at The Flea Theater.
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A Dark Future Now
Brendan McCall reviews Tim Blake Nelson’s newest play And Then We Were No More at La Mama.
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The Alchemy of Small Groups (Part 6 of 6)
If the human world is organized in small groups, what are the qualities and conditions that make small groups work best?
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From Black Box to Broadway
Daniel Fish’s “Oklahoma!” in Los Angeles, Taylor Mac, Kiki and Herb and other tales of “Black Box to Broadway”. Essay #3 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.
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Satori in a Storefront
That time I saw Kristen Kosmas in 1992 and it blew my mind. The first in a series of essays about the power of live performance in small rooms.
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Dreaming Erotica with GENET PORNO
Pushing boundaries was at the heart of Jean Genet’s seminal literary work, Our Lady of the Flowers, which weaves a highly sensational tale of promiscuity and murder in the seedy underbelly of Paris. Our Lady of the Flowers, written in 1943, became a major influence on the Beat Generation and on mid-century gay culture but…
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Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s After the Rehearsal/Persona at Philly Fringe
Philadelphia’s Fringe Festival is comprised of two types of fringe-ing. There’s the Independent/Neighborhood Fringe–which is Fringe as we typically understand it, independent producers sprawled all over the city making weird experimental pieces. Then there’s the Curated Fringe, which consists of productions FringeArts has invested money in that are supposed to illustrate the boundaries currently being…
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CHICKEN TENDERS: Peter Whitehead, poultry, and the art of collapse in Sister Sylvester’s They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain
Sister Sylvester’s new piece, They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain, opens with the company’s founder and director, Kathryn Hamilton, cheerfully and pragmatically laying out a few basic facts concerning her subject of interest: a documentary film called The Fall shot in 1968 by British filmmaker Peter Whitehead. Whitehead, we’re told, came to New…
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Freedom, Assistant Directing, and Father Comes Home From the Wars
Molly Murphy, the Assistant Director on Suzan-Lori Parks’ Father Comes Home From The Wars, sits down with playwright Kevin Armento to discuss freedom.
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In Progress: A Prelude 2014 Reflection
As a relative newcomer to the City, my Prelude 2014 experience lacked just that: a prelude, or much context at all, for that matter. And for that, I am grateful. In place of expectation, lay openness. In the absence of prior knowledge, the inclination to talk less and listen more acutely. The performances…
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Theater should be a transformative experience: Milo Rau’s cheerful and non-cynical brand of political drama
Joost Ramaer speaks with Milo Rau, politcal theater artist and founder of the International Institute of Political Murder (IIPM).
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Collaboration, Creativity and The American Revolution(s)
Andy lectures on how creativity, collaboration and improvisation are central to the creation of Democracy in America.