Invasion! is a really fun and funny play. I want to state that right at the beginning before it gets lost in what’s to follow. Smart, funny, highly theatrical; it is proof that political theatre need neither be dry nor preachy to explore important issues. Okay: now for the rest. During...
Since 2002, Les Frères Corbusier has been building a reputation as a company able to marry the anarchic energy and scattershot intellectualism of groups like Radiohole and the International WOW Company with a more accessible, populist aesthetic. Their mission statement describes the...
When the reviews for the Broadway iteration of Fela! hit the stands (or, more accurately in my case, the RSS feeds), I couldn’t help but wonder what was going on. Normally staid critics were breaking out the superlatives and the exclamation points by the bushel. The New York Times’...
Medea and its Double by Euripides, adapted and directed by Hyoung-Taek Limb. Presented by Seoul Factory for the Performing Arts and La MaMa ETC Auto Da Fe by Masataka Matsuda, translated by Kameron Steele and Shigeki Mori, directed by Josh Fox with Paul Bargetto. Presented by...
The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, through Dec. 13th at the Public Theater. At 29 years old, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney has been crowned “a major new voice” by enough critics, directors, dramaturgs, and producers that there is already something of a backlash in...
