Under the Radar, Over the Hump: 3 Leaders in Dialogue
The directors of this iconic NYC festival, now a city-wide celebration since losing its longtime home, aren’t just planning next January’s programming but the fest’s next 20 years as well.
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Under the Radar Announces 2025 Festival, Adds 2 Leaders
New York’s premier international and experimental festival sticks with the city-wide multi-venue approach as Meropi Peponides and Kaneza Schaal join the leadership team.
NYC’s January Festivals: Not Dead Yet
With Under the Radar bouncing back and Prototype and Exponential still going strong, it was challenging, surprising festival season all over again.
Intimate But Global: Mark Russell on the Return of Under the Radar
The festival’s leader accounts for what has been lost and gained from the “divorce” from the Public Theater, and what this year’s multi-venue iteration has in store.
In ‘Rich Kids’: World History, One Instagram Feed at a Time
Javaad Alipoor and Kirsty Housley’s new multi-screen theatre/film offering refracts the human race’s struggles through a pair of joy-riding Iranian teens.
The Public Announces Under the Radar Festival Performances
The festival, running Jan. 6-17, 2021, will offer its productions virtually for free for the first time.
Beyond Whiteness: A January Festival Wrap-Up
What I saw when I chose to focus on artists of color at Under the Radar, COIL, et al.
Pulled in All Directions, Especially New Ones, by New York’s January Festivals
In a week of showgoing, I enjoyed reconnecting with my performing-arts-presenter peers, but also searched for points of entry for the uninitiated.
PS122’s Vallejo Gantner Brings the World to NY, and Vice Versa
As he gears up for another festival January, the downtown impresario weighs in on a busy and changing scene.
Festival Central
Another January welcomes some familiar players and some new hopefuls to NYC’s festival gauntlet.
