NYC Festival Wrapup: Emotional Rubble, Glam Rock and Spiritual Cojones
This year, dozens of shows in a few weeks pushed boundaries and pointed in invigorating new directions for performance and performers.
All Stories About Under the Radar Festival
Taylor Mac and Temporary Distortion: In for the Duration
Four- to six-hour performances seem to be proliferating at this year’s Under the Radar and COIL festivals. Why do artists—and audiences—want to go long?
Rodney King's L.A. Story Resonates Backward and Forward
In dramatizing questions about the man whose beating by police incited riots, solo artist Roger Guenveur Smith finds story that’s deeply American—and quintessentially L.A.
Taylor Mac, the TEAM and More Gear Up for NY's Festival January
Under the Radar and the COIL unveil slates of returning favorites, durational experiments, multi-disciplinary ventures and more.
Five Downtown Theatre Festivals in NYC to Pull Audiences Out of the Cold Snap
With Under the Radar, Coil, PROTOTYPE, American Realness, Other Forces, January is festival season in New York City. So snap out of it.
The Audacity of the Ordinary: ‘Life and Times’ at Nature Theater of Oklahoma
The ever-expanding production gambles for high stakes.
Group Think
Shape-shifting ensembles are surfacing on major U.S. stages, trailing new techniques and changing the playmaking rules.
Executive Director’s Note for March 2013: The Long and Short of It
This year’s vast mixture of work spotlighted new possibilities with respect to time, place and the nature of nurture in theatre today.
What Dramaturgs Want
Calling all dramaturgs, one-time dramaturgs, would-be dramaturgs! What production in the coming season have you heard about that you wish you were working on as a dramaturg? What is it about this show that afflicts you with dramaturgical envy?
