Category: Off-Off Broadway
Dressing a Greek Classic for Tomorrow
By ALLISON CONSIDINE
How Lex Liang transports Antigone into the future through costumes
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Lex Liang had never seen a production of Antigone when director Carl Cofield invited him to design the costumes for the Classical Theatre of Harlem's take on Sophocles' tragedy. That was probably a good thing since this is far from a traditional mounting. The company's politically...
Turn Off the News, Tune In to a Socially Conscious Arts Festival
By DOUG STRASSLER
Why all the shows in the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity are raising funds for various charities
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"This is the most important moment for art that we've had in the last 50 years," says Shaun Peknic, the newly minted artistic director of Planet Connections Theatre Festivity (PCTF). Fittingly, the 10th edition of this summer festival features...
Plan Your Next Summer Getaway Around a Show
By DOUG STRASSLER
Here are highlights at lauded out-of-town theatres in Hudson Valley, the Berkshires and beyond
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While there are still plenty of productions to see in New York over the summer, this is the season when regional theatre really heats up. The Northeast proves to be a mecca for talented artists to revive old chestnuts and debut new works. So peg your...
Where Do You Fit When You're Black, Queer and HIV Positive?
By JUAN MICHAEL PORTER II
Timothy DuWhite's Neptune has its world premiere at the HOT! Festival
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Throughout July, avant-garde hot spot Dixon Place hosts its annual HOT! Festival: The NYC Celebration of Queer Culture. Since 1992, HOT! has pushed the envelope of LGBTQ performance through eclectic programming that embraces a range of titillations, from good old-fashioned show...
Finding Current Comedy in an Old Tragedy
By JOSE SOLÍS
David Carl uses Shakespeare to skewer politicos in Trump Lear
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Late-night talk-show hosts write fresh bits every day to satirize the state of the union. But solo performer and playwright David Carl decided to poke fun at the current POTUS by going back to a 400-year old script: Shakespeare's King Lear. The result, Trump Lear, is much cleverer than...
How the 'Gay Play' Is Evolving
By JONATHAN MANDELL
Dramatists are exploring LGBTQ life in uncharted ways
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To judge only from Broadway, New York theatre is experiencing a Renaissance of old gay plays, with starry revivals of three landmark dramas that are now period pieces: The Boys in the Band from the '60s, the soon-to-open Torch Song from the '80s and Angels in America from the '90s.
But Pride...
Addressing Theatre's Gender Parity Problem
By REGINA ROBBINS
How Parity Productions is helping female creatives get ahead
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Ludovica Villar-Hauser has been developing, directing and producing shows on both sides of the Atlantic for more than three decades. So she understands firsthand the challenges of being a female theatre-maker in an industry with an ingrained gender parity problem. The lack of women in...
Who's Allowed to Tell This Story?
By JONATHAN MANDELL
En Garde Arts' new show about the Rwandan genocide asks who owns history
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On the empty ninth floor of an office building in downtown Manhattan, En Garde Arts has conjured two wildly different worlds: the under-construction headquarters for a Manhattan nonprofit, and the rural Rwandan countryside. Those are the settings for Red Hills, the troupe's...