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This Is Not the 'Streetcar' You Think You Know

By ELIZA BENT

Thursday, May 19, 2016 • Design • 2 comments Share This

Thu May 19, 2016 • Design • 2 comments Share This

A production in Brooklyn blows our expectations apart --- Even if you've never seen it, A Streetcar Named Desire manages to seep into your brain. Without even trying, you end up knowing quotes and stage pictures simply because pop culture references them all the time. As you probably know on some level, the show follows a southern belle named Blanche...

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Reading the Light in 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night'

By MARK BLANKENSHIP

Tuesday, May 10, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

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Inside Natasha Katz's Tony-nominated design --- We know James Tyrone is happy because the light around him changes. Telling his son Edmund about the time Edwin Booth -- the great actor! -- praised his talents, he gets so lost in the story that he rises from his chair in his dilapidated summer home. He moves to the front of the stage and basks in the...

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Does Making Art Help Us Grieve?

By JACK SMART

Thursday, April 14, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Thu Apr 14, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

The quest for legacy in the Assembly's new play --- In the Assembly's I Will Look Forward To This Later, now at the New Ohio Theatre, visual art and live performance are inextricably bound. A sculptor mixes clay and water in a bucket onstage. A widow and her late husband's lover taxidermize birds for an installation. Characters talk as one creates...

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It's a Levis Commercial, But It Might Tell the Truth

By ELIZA BENT

Thursday, March 31, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

Thu Mar 31, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

In William Burke's new play, commercials and poetry collide --- Welcome to Borough Play, our look at theatre in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond The playwright William Burke gives off an averse-to-advertising air. His unruly beard existed long before face fuzz was trendy, and he has been known to sport Tevas unironically. (His wife, the actress Julia...

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The Sound of the Wood is the Soul of the Play

By NAHUEL TELLERIA

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

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The subtle design of Anne Washburn's new play at Playwrights Horizons --- A wooden kitchen island – anchored to wide, rough-hewn planks – floats amid a sea of black. Above it, skeletal rafters are entangled with verdant branches. Two niche-like entrances stare out from the upstage wall, and a handful of tall grass lurks at the foot of...

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His Body Tells the Computer What to Do

By DIEP TRAN

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 • Design • 0 comments Share This

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The profoundly human technology of YOUARENOWHERE --- Multimedia artist Andrew Schneider's first love isn't technology; it's performance. In fact, he was trained as an actor and later taught himself how to create videos. "In grad school, I was the performer who was trying to do tech," he recalls. Later, however, when he was hired to create video for...

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Jane Austen's Characters: Living, Breathing, Sweating

By MARISA COHEN

Thursday, February 04, 2016 • Design • 3 comments Share This

Thu Feb 4, 2016 • Design • 3 comments Share This

Inside Bedlam's lively take on Sense & Sensibility --- The creators and stars of Bedlam's Sense & Sensibility are well aware that Jane Austen fans, a notoriously devoted and opinionated group, are going to bring a very critical eye to their adaptation of her beloved novel. As points of comparison, there are already plenty of other interpretations...

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