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5 Theatres You Need to Know: Companies in Northwestern Queens

By JOSE SOLÍS

Tuesday, October 02, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

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Our series continues with a roundup of theatres in Long Island City, Astoria and Corona --- Last month, we spotlighted Asian-American theatres in NYC. For our second installment of 5 Theatres You Need to Know, we're looking at companies based in northwestern Queens. If you usually think of the borough for baseball and dim sum, let us expand your perspective....

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How Do You Dramatize the Downfall of an Autocrat?

By GERARD RAYMOND

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Wed Sep 12, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

In The Emperor, Haile Selassie's servants tell his story, and they're all played by Kathryn Hunter --- The audience never sees His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie in The Emperor, Colin Teevan's stage adaptation of Ryszard Kapuscinski's eponymous book. But you get a vivid picture of the 20th-century Ethiopian autocrat and his court through memories...

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Eleven Collaborators, Three Playlets, One Singular Experience

By JEN GUSHUE

Thursday, August 30, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Thu Aug 30, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Theater Mitu's new show explores war and death from many angles --- How do you create a multimedia meditation on war, death and loss by artistic consensus? That's what Brooklyn-based company Theater Mitu set out to do with Remnant, the inaugural production in the troupe's new Gowanus home. Crafted out of extensive interviews and research conducted...

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What Are They Really Wrestling With?

By BILLY MCENTEE

Monday, May 21, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Mon May 21, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Experimental theatre-maker Erin Markey explores the nature of intimacy in Singlet --- Erin Markey's Singlet is a wrestling match, both literally and figuratively. It features headlocks and takedowns aplenty, but it's the psychological grappling that propels each of the duets in the performer-playwright's daring world premiere at Brooklyn's Bushwick...

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How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?

By DIEP TRAN

Thursday, April 26, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Thu Apr 26, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Working Theater's ambitious five-play series connects disparate NYC communities --- Adam Kraar's new play Alternating Currents is set in a real housing complex in Flushing, Queens called Electchester. It's full of vibrant details only someone familiar with the development would know, such as references to the red-tailed hawks that reside on one of...

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WATCH: JACK

By ANDREW BLOCK

Monday, March 05, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Mon Mar 5, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Meet JACK, an Obie-winning Off-Off Broadway theatre in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. JACK's mission is to "fuel experiments in art and activism, collaborating with adventurous artists and our neighbors to bring about a just and vibrant society." To that end, the venue showcases the work of traditionally marginalized artists, including people of color, women,...

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Why Teenage Girls Can't Lose Onstage

By RAVEN SNOOK

Thursday, February 15, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Thu Feb 15, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

A new play explores the complicated relationship between two adolescent fencers --- It's tempting to compare Gracie Gardner's world-premiere play Athena at JACK to Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves, which recently finished a critically acclaimed run at Lincoln Center Theater. Both are highly physical one acts featuring teenage female athletes bonding, bantering,...

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