Where Have All the Festivals Gone? A January Wrap-Up
Though American Realness and COIL are sorely missed, there was much international work to take in at this year’s Under the Radar and Exponential fests.
Stories by Nicole Serratore
A Gay ‘Inheritance’ That’s Generations in the Making
Matthew Lopez’s two-part epic uses E.M. Forster as a template and is playing in London, but this sweeping, imperfect play is unmistakably American.
Lee Pace, Not Your Regular Joe
A role as the gay Mormon lawyer in ‘Angels in America’ on Broadway brings the Texas-born actor back to a play that helped make him an actor.
Beyond Whiteness: A January Festival Wrap-Up
What I saw when I chose to focus on artists of color at Under the Radar, COIL, et al.
He Said, He Said, She Said: A Tale of 3 Hamlets
What a piece of work is ‘Hamlet,’ as sampled in London, New York, and Colorado.
NYC’s Experimental Fests, Starring Me (and Thankfully Others)
Interaction, immersion, identification, and exploration at this year’s Under the Radar, Coil, American Realness, et al.
That’s What They Wrote and ‘That’swhatshesaid’
A performance piece used bits of copyrighted plays to critique the portrayal of women in contemporary theatre. Was it fair use or out of bounds?
Humanity, Humor, and a Live Chicken: NYC’s Many Experimental Festivals
Performance installations, dance performances, an “algorithmic concert”—January festivals presented works that defied categorization.
Not Just the Wild, Crazy Queer Stuff at Abrons’s Just Like a Woman Festival
British and American artists working at the outer boundaries of gender, race, and live art will gather for a weekend of performances, talks, and an intergenerational, intersectional feminist check-in.
Curating Emotion and Blowing Minds at Mass Live Arts
Andrew Schneider’s synesthetic masterwork ‘YOUARENOWHERE’ kicks off another summer of barrier-breaking performance at the Berkshires fest.