Email Author Miriam Felton-Dansky

2011 Stories by Miriam Felton-Dansky

• Bread and Puppet Does Wikileaks

  published December 7, 2011

  When you see him onstage, it’s pretty clear that Bread and Puppet’s Peter Schumann enjoys his line of work. The company’s new... More >>

• Supernatural Wife Enjoys Some Underworld

  published November 30, 2011

  Death is generally non-negotiable: When it comes for you, you go, and after crossing the Styx, you pretty much stay on the other side. Except not... More >>

• Dreamless Land Goes a Little Cube-ist

  published November 9, 2011

  Centerstage in Julia Jarcho’s new play, Dreamless Land—which she also directs—is a glossy white cube, floating over a... More >>

• The Atmosphere of Memory Has an Atmosphere of Retread

  published November 2, 2011

  David Bar Katz’s The Atmosphere of Memory—a Labyrinth production, directed by Pam MacKinnon—is sort of like a theatrical... More >>

• Intríngulis’s Alien Encounters

  published October 5, 2011

  If you were a Sesame Street fan in the mid-’90s, you probably witnessed the launch of Carlo Albán’s acting career, when... More >>

• The Model Walks the Stage

  published August 24, 2011

  What are beautiful people? Are they humans like the rest of us, or are they more like well-made objects—better gazed at than spoken to? This... More >>

• HotelMotel: Get a Room!

  published August 10, 2011

  Most people check into hotels seeking R&R, but you won’t feel rejuvenated after a stay at HotelMotel, the Amoralists’ disturbing... More >>

• The Austerity of Hope's Wedding Bell Blues

  published July 20, 2011

  Dan Fingerman’s The Austerity of Hope, now playing in the Fresh Fruit Festival, is like Boys in the Band meets Sex in the... More >>

• Pontiac Firebird Variations Drives Into the Ice Factory

  published July 6, 2011

  Act One, Scene Four of Richard III is pretty dramatic. The Duke of Clarence—treacherous Richard’s brother—languishes in the... More >>

• The Belarus Free Theatre Arrives With Being Harold Pinter, Zone of Silence, and Discover Love

  published April 20, 2011

  The Belarus Free Theatre hails from a country where it’s dangerous to say much of anything—and now that they’re here, they have a... More >>

• The Promise Likes Trauma

  published April 6, 2011

  First-grade teachers deal with all kinds of scary stuff: pants-wetting, tantrums, parents. Helping a first-grader from halfway across the... More >>

• Trousers Needs a Comedy Tailor

  published March 30, 2011

  How can a play about pants fail to be funny? The word “pants” is funny. Big pants are funny, tiny pants are funny—and no... More >>

• The Killing Room Visits the Post-Apocalyptic Hospital

  published March 16, 2011

  What do you get when you combine two grizzled tyrants, a sinister doctor, and ghoulish offspring chained to brick walls? I'm not really sure.... More >>

• Propeller Brings The Comedy of Errors to BAM...and Mexico

  published March 16, 2011

  Missed your flight to Cancun this March? You’re in luck. The all-male Propeller company’s gleefully faux-Mexican Comedy of Errors... More >>

• Spy Garbo Goes Limbo-ing

  published March 9, 2011

  Sheila Schwartz’s Spy Garbo could have been the most action-packed reunion ever—a meeting of long-lost frenemies to rival Romy... More >>

• Storm Still Offers Little Thunder

  published March 2, 2011

  In an abandoned classroom, three gawky nerds mull over the meanings of King Lear. They sift through Shakespeare lore, intermittently... More >>

• Thinner Than Water's Clashing Clan

  published February 23, 2011

  Renee’s an uptight, perpetually aggrieved suburban mom. Gary’s an overgrown teenager with a penchant for pot. Cassie’s a... More >>

• Green Investigates Corrupt Interplanetary Elections!

  published February 16, 2011

  So our hero, Green, is a lonely human on futuristic Planet Mumbai Forest, where homo sapiens aren’t welcome. Arrested for performing his... More >>

• Starry Messenger Aims Its Lens on Galileo

  published February 2, 2011

  What teenager hasn’t begged their father to change his mind about something—a curfew, maybe, or a coveted new pair of shoes? Ira... More >>

• Jan Fabre Burns New Jersey

  published January 19, 2011

  Pyromaniacs, rejoice! Flemish theatrical auteur Jan Fabre’s latest extravaganza, Prometheus—Landscape II, now playing at... More >>

• Nicholas Ray + Cortisone = Quality Lunatics

  published January 12, 2011

  Ed Avery, hero of Nicholas Ray’s film Bigger Than Life (1956), has a rare medical condition that only cortisone can treat.... More >>

• Men Go Down (Part 3: Black Recollections) Offers You a Boring Nymph

  published January 12, 2011

  Imagine being pregnant for a thousand years: the nausea, the cravings, the swollen feet. No wonder Dryope—an ill-fated nymph in John... More >>