After stepping up the musical parody genre with Lost: The Musical, creators Steven Christopher Parker and Steven Brandon tackle another beloved part of the cultural zeitgeist, Game of Thrones. In their hilarious rock musical parody, Game of Thrones: …Read more
It’s not everyday you get to walk through a random Bushwick apartment, step out into a verdant backyard decorated with fairy lights, and be treated to a play by firelight. This rare treat is brought to you by Upstream Artists’ Collective and Brooklyn …Read more
Sex is up front and in your face in Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen’s orgiastic experimental dance performance 7 Pleasures at NYU Skirball. More of an experience than a passive performance, 7 Pleasures creates a visceral momentum that involves …Read more
The tortured history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is transmitted through Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula’s Sur Les Traces De Dinozard (In Search of Dinozord) at NYU Skirball. As part of the French Institute Alliance Française ( …Read more
The dualities that exist within women and art are explored in A Ribbon About A Bomb, written by a team of 10 playwrights, created and directed by Tess Howsam, and currently playing in an abandoned Colonels Row house on Governors Island. Exquisite Cor …Read more
Get ready for an in-your-face, psychedelic acid trip of a show with Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers’ Almodóvar Dystopia. The interactive, multimedia, dance-theatre performance art piece, choreographed by the colorful, queer and hirsute Ramos, is c …Read more
A chorus stands in judgement of Hester, La Negrita, the protagonist of Suzan-Lori Parks’ In the Blood, directed by Sarah Benson and loosely based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (playing, along with its sister play, Fucking A, at the Sign …Read more
A man, asleep and blindfolded, is standing atop the shoulders of another man. He slowly begins to slump and the awake man cannot hold him any longer. The sleeping man careens toward the ground and miraculously stays asleep. Atlas Circus Company, a co …Read more
Lesbian love at a repressed Jesus camp? No one could have seen that one coming! Director Mia Walker stages a concert version of the 2009 electro-musical Camp Wanatachi for the 2017 New York Musical Festival (NYMF) at The Green Room 42 @ Yotel, and ge …Read more
What’s something you’ve always wanted to do but never have? Would you be willing to share that secret desire in public? During Secrets and Seawalls, a site-specific dance-theatre performance set aboard the 1885 cargo ship Wavertree at the South Stree …Read more
