Online This Week: We Three Categories
Concerts, a ‘Carol’ or 3, and a surfeit of readings, benefits, and other virtual theatre kick off December in abundant style.
All Stories About New York Live Arts
Online This Week: What Is Theatre?
From a ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ watch party to a Beethoven bio-play with music, this week offers many answers to the eternal question.
No Show
If we can’t have theatre until we can gather again safely, what are U.S. theatres and artists going to do in the meantime, and after?
Bill T. Jones on Slumming, Stephen Foster, and Trump’s Second Term
In ‘Paradise Square,’ the choreographer of ‘Fela!’ imagines the promise of New York’s first slum and the violence of the Draft Riots of 1863.
Stuck in the Middle: Dispatches From the Middle East and North Africa
Though the regions’ names suggest they lack their own centers of gravity, culture helps forge a common identity in spite of war, plunder, and devastation.
Adham Hafez & Farah Saleh Think Globally, Stage Locally
Two choreographer/theoreticians, one Egyptian and one Palestinian, negotiate—and draw inspiration from—painful cultural divides.
Middle East Solos: Out of Context, Creating a New One
What did 4 female-led works at New York Live Arts’ Live Ideas Festival have to say to us or to each other—or are those even the right questions?
The Buzz: 5 Theatre Artists Dish on What’s Coming Up
From a Thanksgiving comedy, to exciting new hires, to ‘Scrooge in Love!’, five theatre artists preview what they’re working on, and what they’re looking forward to.
Okwui Okpokwasili to Receive $200,000 Commission from New York Live Arts
Sonya Tayeh and Adrienne Truscott are among the artists-in-residence during Live Arts’s 2015–16 season.
New York Live Arts Announces 2015–16 Season
The movement-based company’s season includes performance art, dance, theatre and music.
