Chain Theatre21-28 45th Road, Long Island City The Elephant Run District theater company hosts a series of performance development labs this Friday and Saturday. Each night three 15-minute excerpts of in-progress productions are performed by the developing theater company. Followed by brief interviews of the performers by one of ERD’s cofounders.[…]
When Annie Baker’s writing and Sam Gold’s directing you don’t ask questions, you just attend. Playwrights Horizon’s416 W 42nd StTickets UPDATE March 29, 2013 Apparently a bunch of Playwrights Horizons’ season ticket holders freaked out over the length of Annie Baker’s play “The Flick.” The theater’s artistic director saw fit to[…]
Let’s speak frankly about women and sex. Let’s start by recognizing that the term women encompasses more than just skinny, straight, white women. ”The Bird and The Bees: Unabridged,” a new play, uses comedy, dance, and music to broach the, at once over explored and under examined, topic of female[…]
This David Byrne/Fatboy Slim musical at The Public Theater has not even begun previews and it is nearly sold out. Here Lies Love is the story of Imelda Marcos set to disco music. It has garned lots of attention, including this snazzy write-up in Vogue, complete with Annie Leibovitz photo. The Public describes[…]
This weekend and next Narcissister blends performance art, dance, striptease, music, feminist craft, and vaudevillian trickery in an evening-length piece that, self-described, stretches the limits of spectatorship. Abrons Art Center466 Grand StMore infoTickets
This week we had the first major Spring opening on Broadway (Cinderella, we won’t be covering that here), new openings by burgeoning young playwrights Rajiv Joseph (The North Pool at Vineyard Theatre, sadly a pass) and Amy Herzog (Belleville at New York Theatre Workshop, more on this below), a Pulitzer Prize winning[…]
New NYC Theater (March 1-7) Aggregated listings and reviews for theater productions that opened in New York City between March 1 and 7. Belleville Old Hats The North Pool Talley’s Folly
A rare movie star vehicle that is intimate and actually pretty good, Vanessa Redgrave and Jesse Eisenberg appear in “The Revisionist” at Cherry Lane Theater in the West Village. Eisenberg also wrote the play. Tickets are hard to come by in the short term and they’re expensive: $85. But the[…]
Two Chinese laborers (one as teacher, one as student) explore the dance and combat elements of Peking opera in the “The Dance and the Railroad” at Signature Center. Reasons to like: Beautiful Peking opera inspired dance, movement, and combat; Charming story by David Henry Hwang set during the 1867 strike[…]
New NYC Theater (February 22-28) Aggregated listings and reviews for theater productions that opened in New York City between February 22 and 28. The Revisionist The Dance and the Railroad Katie Roche The Madrid The Wild Bride On the Head of a Pin Passion
Interview with Killy Dwyer about her show “My BoX” at the 2013 FRIGID New York theater festival. More info (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Interview with Chris Harcum (writer and performer) about his show “Two Lovely Black Eyes” at the 2013 FRIGID New York theater festival. More info (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Interview with Yanomi, performer and director of “A Day in the Life of Miss Hiccup” at the 2013 FRIGID New York theater festival. More info (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Interview with D’yan Forest (performer) about her show “My Pussy is Purrin’ Again” at the 2013 FRIGID New York theater festival. More info (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Interview with Carrie Brown (performer) and Karim Muasher (performer) about “The Vindlevoss Family Circus Spectacular!” at the 2013 FRIGID New York theater festival. More info (Source: http://vimeo.com/)
Interview with Adam Strauss (writer and performer) about his show “Varieties of Religious Experience” at the 2013 FRIGID New York theater festival. More info (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Interview with Seth Lepore (writer and performer) about his show “Losing My Religion: Confessions of a New Age Refugee” at the 2013 FRIGID New York theater festival. More info (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Interview with Paul Hutcheson host of “Canuck Cabaret” at the 2013 FRIGID New York theater festival. More info (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Interview with Virginia Bryan (writer and performer) about her show “My Three Moms” at the 2013 FRIGID New York theater festival. More info (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
Interview with John Grady (writer and performer) about his show “Little Pussy” at the 2013 FRIGID New York theater festival. More info (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)