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.
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Interaction, immersion, identification, and exploration at this year’s Under the Radar, Coil, American Realness, et al.
From ‘Cherry Orchard’ on Broadway to ‘Cymbeline’ in London, period transplants have varied success.
Hour by hour, decade by decade, Mac broke down American history, music, himself, and us—and then built us back up again.
Even in a polarized age, the best dramatists are drawn to complications, not simple answers, as Richard Nelson’s Chekhovian plays prove.
The authors of the latest installment have set the Time-Turner back to the 19th century.
Wendy Wasserstein’s 1997 play feels more contemporary than it should, especially during this political season.
Highlights of the annual festival included a rock band of Catholic schoolgirls, giant balloons, pop-up books, and deconstructed Chekhov.
Known for their work on screen, these two stage pros are in their element in ‘The Father’ and ‘The Crucible.’
Sholem Asch’s contested Yiddish classic is grist for Vogel and Taichman’s meditative new play-within-a-play.
A few farces aside, current plays in the Old Smoke offer no escape from a disturbing world.