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Money Lab: A Vaudevillian Social Experiment Proves the Value of Art
Untitled Theater Company's workshop production of Money Lab explores one of the quintessential cocktail party dilemmas--the "flower vs. food" dichotomy, as its charismatic, fast-talking MC Clive Dobbs calls it. Is it possible to measure the relative...
by James Hannaham on August 14, 2013
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Fringe Marathon: The Spider Tops Our Roundup of 10 Shows
Last weekend kicked off the 17th year of the New York International Fringe Festival (aka FringeNYC), which runs through August 25. As with any such festival, when you choose what shows to see, you're really rolling the dice. This two-week-long feast...
by Linda Leseman on August 14, 2013
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Abstraction: The Sequel - A hole in art history
Ahhh, the '80s: Reagan was in the White House, Thirtysomething was on the tube, and Julian Schnabel's retrospective was at the Whitney. But the decade wasn't all bad. Early in curator Raphael Rubinstein's insightful essay for this group exhibitio...
by R. C. Baker on August 7, 2013
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Shida: A Musical Coming-of-Age Story Skips the Nuance
How does this sound: Whitney Houston stars in Precious: a one-woman musical based on the TV show Intervention, with music by Diane Warren, from executive producer Tyler Perry! Jeannette Bayardelle's solo musical Shida might not fit that bill exactly...
by James Hannaham on August 7, 2013
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Harbor Explores the Meaning of Family
How will the expansion of the American family influence the domestic drama--that most durable and venerable of genres? Will our stages still be dominated by an endless supply of formulaic tales of dysfunction and healing? Or will playwrights imagine...
by Tom Sellar on August 7, 2013
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Heavy Hitters: Damn Yanquis and Cartoon Vampires
The camera pans across battered cinder-block walls, a muddy infield, concrete stands shorn of awnings, and palm trees silhouetted against gray skies. On the soundtrack, an old-timer reminisces in Spanish about his days on a Cuban baseball team: "Nob...
by R. C. Baker on July 31, 2013
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Skin Games, Flesh On The Brain
While organizing the group show "Hair and Skin," curator Isaac Lyles considered recent research into "mirror neurons" and "physical empathy" suggesting that the human brain simulates the experience of what the eyes are seeing (now we understand how ...
by R. C. Baker on July 31, 2013
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Murder for Two: Singing the Clues - Two guys and a piano seek whodunit
Who killed Arthur Whitney, the successful New England novelist who knew everyone's secrets--and used them in his books? Why doesn't anyone in his shifty entourage seem to care that his corpse lies flat on the parlor floor? And not-so-incidentally, w...
by Tom Sellar on July 31, 2013
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Let It Be: The (Un)Fab Four - A sanitized Beatles tribute could use "Help!"
Let It Be, a new concert-style "celebration" of the Beatles and their ubiquitous music--which you would hardly think needs more celebrating--is basically a living greatest-hits album, an ambulatory boxed set, only performed by a bunch of ringers. (T...
by Jacob Gallagher-Ross on July 31, 2013
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Q&A: Queens Native Bushra Rehman On Her Debut Novel and Growing Up Pakistani Muslim in Queens
Bushra Rehman's first novel, Corona, is a fragmented, poetic, on-the-road adventure told from the perspective of the charismatic Razia Mirza. After coming of age in a tight Muslim community surrounding the first Sunni Masjid built in New York City, ...
by Heather Baysa on July 31, 2013
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The Designated Mourner: Wallace Shawn's Rites and Wrongs
Wallace Shawn is a dangerous man. If he confronted you in some darkened alley you might feel more inclined to giggle than cower, but don't let that roly-poly exterior and slight lisp catch you off guard. His plays describe the seductive power of bad...
by Alexis Soloski on July 24, 2013
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Second Stage Plays the Dating Game With Nobody Loves You
Nobody Loves You, the musical comedy now running at Second Stage, is the theatrical equivalent of the watermelon martini: jokey, overly sweet, sneakily refreshing. Written by brainiac playwright Itamar Moses and composer Gaby Alter, it concerns Jeff...
by Alexis Soloski on July 24, 2013
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The Island of Doctor Moreau Gets a Butoh-Inspired Adaptation
Back when evolution was a scary new idea--unlike now, when in certain circles it's a scary old idea--H.G. Wells wrote The Island of Doctor Moreau, about a scientist's misguided efforts to fast-track assorted critters up the biological ladder to huma...
by Jacob Gallagher-Ross on July 24, 2013
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Outrageousness: Now Too Big to Fail - Shock and duh.
There's nothing more stubbornly middle-of-the-road than shock art. Like inflexible suburban Baptists and food co-op rules committees, purveyors of this trying trend insist on viewing reality in stark black and white. Such a worldview mistakenly inve...
by Christian Viveros-Fauné on July 24, 2013
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Storyville: A Jazzy Musical Struggles to Find Its Rhythm
Storyville is a portrait of the New Orleans red light district sometimes credited as the birthplace of jazz, in the days before the federal government closed it by force in 1917. Boasting a book by acclaimed playwright Ed Bullins, with music and ly...
by Joseph Cermatori on July 24, 2013
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Llyn Foulkes' Art Is a Visionary Spectacle
Outsider art is the new blue-chip art. Or so various New York insiders would have you believe. From this summer's Venice Biennial (curated by the New Museum's Director of Exhibitions Massimiliano Gioni) to yards of boosterish column inches in the no...
by Christian Viveros-Faune on July 17, 2013
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Hearts and Mines: Love Is a Supertitled Battlefield at the Lincoln Center Festival
Amid the scorch and swelter of July, the Lincoln Center Festival offers two plays devoted to desires chill and cruel. In Complicite's Shun-kin, based on the writings of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, and Thtre de l'Atelier's Les Liaisons Dangereuses, adapte...
by Alexis Soloski on July 17, 2013
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The Castle's Rotten 12th-Century Power Struggle Looks Like Our Own
A lusty battalion of men comes home from the Crusades, only to fight a tougher war--a battle of the sexes. After all, it's the fictitious 12th century in this hallucination of not-so-merry Olde England. Women are claiming new roles in defiance of th...
by Tom Sellar on July 17, 2013
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In I Wear the Black Hat, Chuck Klosterman is as Calculating and Sharp as Ever
In an essay from his 2009 collection, Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman reasons that because most television laugh tracks are stock recordings, many of which were made decades ago, when we watch our favorite sitcoms, we can be "100 percent confi...
by Heather Baysa on July 10, 2013
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Go Time-Traveling at the Ice Factory Festival
This year's Ice Factory festival of six new works transforms the New Ohio into a hot-weather time machine (never fear, the AC is cool). The time-warping began at the end of June with That Poor Dream, the Assembly's update of Dickens's Great Expectat...
by Jacob Gallagher-Ross on July 10, 2013
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The Film Society Can't Quite Make the Leap From Past to Present
What happens to a political play that's three decades old? Can it keep its emotional charge, or does it wither when its social relevance fades? You may be asking these… More >>
Blame It on Magritte
You might assume that the Photoshop fantasias of our age would make the visual conundrums of René Magritte's pre-war paintings feel quaint. Certainly the beguiling originality of his fractured figures… More >>
Deceptive Practices: The Glass Menagerie's Poignant Con Game
The theater is a swindle, an exercise in sham. Every play operates on principles of treachery: Flimsy set pieces substitute for solid spaces; people assume names and accents other than… More >>
Not What Happened: A Meditation on Truth and Historical Accuracy
Provocations don't come much gentler than Ain Gordon's Not What Happened, which concluded a brief run at BAM's Next Wave Festival. A meditation on truth and historical accuracy, directed by… More >>
Arguendo Is Full of Supremely Naughty Charm
Who knew Supreme Court justices have such complicated, libidinous inner lives? Anthony Kennedy muses on adults-only car washes. Sandra Day O'Connor contemplates pornographic videos. Antonin Scalia obsesses over nude opera.… More >>
Tragic Lovers Get Teenage Kicks in Romeo and Juliet Revival
The ardor animating the latest Romeo and Juliet seems less the marriage of true minds than the commingling of hot bods. In David Leveaux's revival at Broadway's Richard Rodgers, Orlando… More >>
The Propeller Group Take on the Art World's Celebrity Fixation
"Are celebrities the new art stars?" asked a Newsweek cover story in July. A few months later, certain windy developments (or popcorn farts) that passed for world-shaking events on TMZ… More >>
Q&A: Mario Alberto Zambrano on Taking the Leap From Dancer to Novelist With Lotería
The game Lotería can best be described as a Mexican version of bingo, but instead of numbers, each card bears a striking image, such as beautiful sea goddess La Sirena… More >>
Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Latest Movingly Illustrates a Sexual Awakening
Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s Life and Times: Episodes 4.5 and 5—at this year’s Crossing the Line Festival—are the newest installments in an epic performance depicting the life story of Kristin… More >>
Anna Nicole: A Cautionary Tale Against Gigantic Breast Implants
What homeless diva recently threatened to commit suicide if her rich patrons didn't cough up $20 million by the end of the year? That's right—the New York City Opera. So… More >>
