There are two major psychological forces at play in Chris Thorpe and Rachel Chavkin’s theater cum performance art piece Confirmation, which took place at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Boerum Hill as a part of New York City’s annual Coil Festival, a …Read more

The classic operatic double feature, Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic chivalry) and Pagliacci (the clowns) is almost as sure as La Bohème to please Italian opera fans and newcomers alike. In fact, each of these short operas is almost never performed with …Read more

An exuberant play written and performed by Frank Boyd, The Holler Sessions, part of Performance Space 122’s Coil festival, brings jazz and Village charm to the forefront. From his cramped studio in Kansas City, the wiry, frenetic Boyd shares a loving …Read more

As much as we may love them, the julep-drenched eccentricities of Tennessee Williams’ plays have always cried out to be burlesqued. I have fond memories of a hilarious parody called Swan, presented decades ago on the campus of San Francisco State Uni …Read more

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

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