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What Does an Emotional Vortex Look Like?
“The design was a direct result of a very strong visceral response to the material,” she says. “With other projects, I tend to go through a lot more storyboarding, collaging and research — a kind of forensic process where I try to have the design reveal itself. This really came about as an endless emotional response.”
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Grab Some Cereal, Watch a Heroine Kick Butt
Hey New Yorkers… are you in need of a truly badass superhero? Have no fear: Kapow-i GoGo is here!
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This Musical Embraces the Small
The mostly sung-through musical features only two actors, which is demanding enough, and on top of that, the characters rarely address each other directly. Instead, they speak to the audience, telling the story of their blossoming bond via the letters they exchange.
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Dancing Between Ballet and Broadway
Watching a preternaturally talented dancer rise in two artistic worlds
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WATCH: Meet Fight or Flight Theater
Meet Fight or Flight Theater , where the most powerful moments may be on a trapeze. This video features company members John Behlmann, Eileen Little, Daniel Loeser, and Richard Thieriot.
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A Dance Dedicated to the Lives of Black Girls
Camille A. Brown’s new work celebrates the entire scope of a black woman’s life
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It’s Your Job to Figure It Out
Why Richard Maxwell refuses to give audiences all — or any — answers
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Spring Awakening’s Deaf Actors Dance to Music They Can’t Hear
It’s a moment that would be complicated in any musical: In the current Broadway revival of Spring Awakening, at the start of a song in the second act, a group of actors faces upstage, backs to the audience. They represent a forest of trees, and eventually they begin to sway in unison as the show […]
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It’s Set in 2040, But It’s Not About the Future
Why Max Posner’s play Judy is really about the present day — Let’s forget for a moment that Judy is set in the year 2040. First and foremost, the show, which is now at the New Ohio in a production from Page 73, is about three adult siblings who are learning to break their longtime […]