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The Legend of Georgia McBride delivers a how-to of drag — The most fabulous presence in The Legend of Georgia McBride isn’t the straight man who becomes a drag queen, his pregnant wife, or his drag mother (though all three are pretty awe-inspiring). No, that honor goes to a clothing rack.

A few thoughts on making plays more inclusive

At one moment during Antigona , Noche Flamenco’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone , the chorus leader commands, “Let us dance and sing in the face of tragedy.” Martín Santangelo and Soledad Barrio have taken Sophocles’ command literally. In their Spanish-language version of the Greek tragedy, Antigone does not merely lament. She dances, ferociously, a Spanish flamenco.

Blood Red Roses revives swashbuckling legends — What’s the best way to spell “arrrgh?” When you’re producing a pirate show, that’s not an idle question. Just ask Drama of Works, the Brooklyn-based company behind Blood Red Roses: The Female Pirate Project. “Is there a ‘u’? An ‘e’?” asks performer Emily Hartford, sitting with her fellow […]

Blessed Unrest partners with a theatre from Kosovo — Theatre artists who want to be treated like rock stars should just head to Albania. At least that’s what Blessed Unrest artistic director Jessica Burr discovered when she toured her company’s show Doruntine through the Balkans in 2009. “People would stop us in the streets,” she […]

In Living Here, this boundary-pushing solo artist performs not in a theatre, but in someone’s living room  — It’s not every day that you get to perform for a chicken. But that’s just what happened to Gideon Irving during a recent performance of his one-man show Living Here: A Map of Songs. The venue was […]

By DIEP TRAN Playwright Chiara Atik does not like watching sex. On stage at least. “I always get uncomfortable and immediately start thinking, ‘Oh I wonder if the actor’s mom is here,’” she says. “It takes me out of the moment.” Knowing that, it’s ironic that her play Five Times in One Night  is entirely about the beast […]

They’re just your typical American family, getting together for Thanksgiving dinner. Except there are no tables, chairs, or turkey. And the characters have names like Cheesecake and Cherry Pie. And the meal is served in a gym. “I’m tired of looking at living rooms on stage,” says Kate Benson, discussing her debut play A Beautiful […]