Radio inherently has a peculiar character among modes of communication in that it can be at once deeply intimate and small, but also highly communal and far-reaching. One or two individuals with the right equipment in a little room can broadcast acro …Read more

Much of the circus arts exist outside of a big top. This is evidenced by the three groups that performed in Friday’s International Contemporary Circus Expo at NYU’s Skirball Center. The expo was sponsored by Circus Now, a nonprofit dedicated to suppo …Read more

For any up-and-coming playwright, the LaBute New Theater Festival, presented by St. Louis Actors’ Studio at 59E59 Theaters, is a big deal. Neil Labute, as prolific as he is prosperous in multiple writing genres as well as directing, is the kind of su …Read more

Upon entering Lower Manhattan’s 4th Street Theatre, the lobby walls catch the eye with stark play/prison related images. Photographic stills set the tone for the looming performance of Key Change, but it is the the written comments from incarcerated …Read more

Brooklyn-based Canadian librettist Royce Vavrek is a very busy man these days, and New York audiences are very lucky!  This month, the 2016 Prototype Festival features two of his operas, Angel’s Bone with composer Du Yun and Dog Days with composer Da …Read more

With music by Du Yun and libretto by Royce Vavrek, Angel’s Bone, at the 2016 Prototype Festival, is a wailing 80-minute opera where feathers fly and violins screech to high heaven. We see the world of Angel’s Bone through the eyes of Mrs. X.E., skill …Read more

The stage opens on a set of stairs leading to a glittering, ladies-only jazz band. They launch into a mash-up of a few jazz standards, including “It Don’t Mean a Thing” and “Luck Be a Lady”. The performance legend Maurice Hines appears onstage as tho …Read more

The world premiere of Mac Wellman’s new play, The Offending Gesture, opened January 9 at the Connelly Theater. Wellman is well-known – and very well-regarded – as the head of the Playwriting MFA program at Brooklyn College (which has produced myriad …Read more

On Saturday, January 9th a group of approximately 75 audience members filled the open wings of the Playhouse Theater at Abrons Arts Center to view the work of Keith Hennessy, a San Francisco-based dance and performance artist regarded as a pioneer of …Read more

Upon the rupture in his relationship with Paul Verlaine, after Verlaine shot him, the adolescent poet prodigy Arthur Rimbaud declared in his prose poem “Morning of Drunkeness,” “Behold the time of the assassins!” Recalling this poem while taking in t …Read more