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'Symphonie Fantastique' as Rorschach Test
By RAVEN SNOOK
Wednesday, April 11, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Wed Apr 11, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Puppeteer Basil Twist revives the abstract show that launched his career --- The other night, MacArthur "genius grant"-winning puppet master Basil Twist spotted a face in his aquatic ballet Symphonie Fantastique, currently enjoying a 20th-anniversary run at HERE Arts Center. Considering Twist conceived the hour-long spectacle as an abstract work set...
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What I Learned From Committing Cultural Appropriation
By ELIZA BENT
Thursday, April 05, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    3 comments Share This
Thu Apr 5, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    3 comments Share This
Performer and playwright Eliza Bent shares the backstory of her new solo show --- Welcome to Behind the Scene, TDF Stages' ongoing series where theatre artists write about their creative process. Last summer I was at a dinner party recounting one of my tried-and-true tales. It's about a home movie I made at age 11 in which I portrayed Queen Liliuokalani,...
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What If Euripides Had Been Female?
By REGINA ROBBINS
Monday, March 19, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Mon Mar 19, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
The New Collectives offers a feminist slant on those women of Troy --- Before Giverny Petitmermet became the artistic director of The New Collectives -- a NYC-based arts company that both creates new work and reimagines classics -- she spent years performing for pennies Off-Off Broadway. Sometimes the shows were great; often they were not. But when...
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What Is the Nature of Violence?
By ELIZA BENT
Tuesday, March 13, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Tue Mar 13, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
The Wholehearted attacks tough questions at Abrons Arts Center --- Ironically, there's something comforting about procedural crime dramas because we know how they will go. Female victim endures a violent, often sexual attack. If she survives, we see her crying and shaking in an interview with the cops. If she doesn't, we see her naked body brutalized....
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Who Raced Boats, Romanced Dietrich, and Rejected Her Gender?
By JUAN MICHAEL PORTER II
Tuesday, March 06, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    5 comments Share This
Tue Mar 6, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    5 comments Share This
Writer-performer Phoebe Legere examines the unconventional life of Joe Carstairs --- "I could die during this show," jokes Phoebe Legere as she soars above the stage in a motorboat in Speed Queen. A fusion of theatre, dance, and video, Legere's solo musical chronicles the groundbreaking life of early 20th-century speedboat champion and oil heiress...
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WATCH: JACK
By ANDREW BLOCK
Monday, March 05, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Mon Mar 5, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    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  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Thu Feb 15, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    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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Shining a Spotlight on Mature Female Artists
By PIA CATTON
Tuesday, January 23, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Tue Jan 23, 2018  •   Off-Off Broadway  •    0 comments Share This
Lumberyard's fest features three artists long absent from NYC stages --- When the leaders of Lumberyard Contemporary Performing Arts were planning their multidisciplinary Winter Festival at New York Live Arts, their first priority was simple. "We wanted to do a season of women," says artistic adviser Dan Hurlin, adding that a second guideline soon...
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