NYC’s January Festivals: Not Dead Yet
With Under the Radar bouncing back and Prototype and Exponential still going strong, it was challenging, surprising festival season all over again.
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With Under the Radar bouncing back and Prototype and Exponential still going strong, it was challenging, surprising festival season all over again.
The festival’s leader accounts for what has been lost and gained from the “divorce” from the Public Theater, and what this year’s multi-venue iteration has in store.
Javaad Alipoor and Kirsty Housley’s new multi-screen theatre/film offering refracts the human race’s struggles through a pair of joy-riding Iranian teens.
The festival, running Jan. 6-17, 2021, will offer its productions virtually for free for the first time.
What I saw when I chose to focus on artists of color at Under the Radar, COIL, et al.
In a week of showgoing, I enjoyed reconnecting with my performing-arts-presenter peers, but also searched for points of entry for the uninitiated.
As he gears up for another festival January, the downtown impresario weighs in on a busy and changing scene.
Another January welcomes some familiar players and some new hopefuls to NYC’s festival gauntlet.