An author’s first play is usually subject to the regular pitfalls: stilted dialogue, unbelievable characters, slightly askew dramatic mechanisms. Not so for Francesca Pazniokas’ Keep, currently running at the TBG Theater. Performed in collaboration w …Read more

Self-proclaimed “over-educated under-achievers”, the lost, angst-ridden, identity-searching 20-somethings we all know intimately, perhaps uncomfortably, well, define the landscape of I Am Not An Allegory (these are people i know), written by Libby Em …Read more

At the time of its publication in 1914, Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons elicited highly polarized reactions. The work of short prose poems, which is divided into three sections (“Objects”, “Food”, and “Rooms”) explores mundane objects with experiment …Read more

What is the role of mythology in theater? What is the role of the document, of the act of witnessing? How can the two combine to reach the deeper personal and artistic truths in a time and place of crisis, and what happens when that place is both you …Read more

The project of documentary theatre has a legacy as a unique cultural space where fact and fiction, reportage and art, intersect. Especially in its more recent iterations, it begs the question of what role theater, re-enactment on stage, can have in t …Read more

Waiting for Godot has been staged time and time again, in many different contexts and by many different casts, since its Paris premiere in January, 1953, over 60 years ago. However, after seeing what at first glance seemed an odd theatrical choice — …Read more