Why Deaf Theater is a Form of Resistance
This film follows Daymond Sands, a Deaf theatre program director, preparing his first original showcase, highlighting the cast’s heartfelt effort to bring Deaf perspectives center stage
Improvisation is an enticing, yet dangerous, approach to performing.
View More RHIZOMAS (Ryuzo Fukuhara): 2016 Fringe review 86Italian director Romeo Castellucci re-envisions his groundbreaking 1997 production Giulio Cesare as a series of “fragments” rearranged and positioned against each other
View More Fringe in Sketch: JULIUS CAESAR. SPARED PARTSWITH FLINT AND STEEL, this year’s Fringe offering by experimental music and dance group duende, consists of seven separate pieces, each by a different choreographer.
View More WITH FLINT AND STEEL (duende): 2016 Fringe review 85Excerpted by kind permission from thINKingDANCE. In FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT, four choreographers explore states of liminality—of how to be between things. In Matriz, Evalina Carbonell uses a…
View More FORE-IGN/ FORE-OUT (Carbonell, Chisena, Gavino, McKenzie): 2016 Fringe review 84We were fortunate. Apparently, the horse does not always shit, but in our case his entrance precipitated a great outpouring of feces.
View More JULIUS CAESAR. SPARED PARTS (Romeo Castellucci / Socíetas Raffaello Sanzio): 2016 Fringe review 83A young girl attempts suicide and wakes up trapped in a cosmic vaudevillian game show that she must win in order to enter the void of death.
View More Fringe in Sketch: THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOWAaron Posner’s hilarious reinvention of The Seagull captures all of Chekhov’s laughable characters, absurdities of life, and self-references to the theater from a 21st-century perspective.
View More STUPID FUCKING BIRD (Arden): A sidesplitting and insightful reinvention of ChekhovAn autobiographical solo dance work tracing how a family history in a Japanese Internment Camp has affected succeeding generations.
View More WALK TO TOPAZ (Brendon Tetsuo): 2016 Fringe review 82Playwright Patrick Ross, who gives us a history of sexism, quotes and references to literature and mythology, and plenty of Hawthorne in a smartly woven one-woman show
View More SCARLETT LETTERS (Ross & Diggs): 2016 Fringe review 81THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY reflected an everlasting struggle, a universal dynamic to shift parochial perspectives through time and evolving relationships
View More THE ONE, THE OTHER ONE, & THE MANY (The Naked Stark): 2016 Fringe review 80the rich layering of performance capacity matched the layers of movement space that Leah Stein’s PORTAL attended to
View More PORTAL (Leah Stein Dance Company): 2016 Fringe review 79THE EUMENIDES was performed amid extraordinary ancient artifacts in the Penn Museum.
View More Fringe in Sketch: THE EUMENIDESColossal curtains beautifully billowing with the breeze, are hanging around, literally, throughout the vast Municipal Pier 9 facility
View More HABITUS (Ann Hamilton): 2016 Fringe review 78Rev Shakes’ annual mainstage productions begin the final weekend of the Fringe and showcase a sensibility at home in the festival
View More The Bastard of KING JOHN: Carlo Campbell on Revolution Shakespeare Fringe offeringIn the first drawing you see a little bit of projection worked into the background. The second is an example of the striking shadows that were used to capture the memory of her mother and father. And the third illustration is the emotion and love which flows from Rumi’s poetry.
View More Fringe in Sketch: SILKEN VEILSIt’s “like Hamlet”, with all the key plot points, “only scrambled” in a light-hearted Commedia dell’arte of masks, jokes, music, and puppets.
View More OMELETTO (Ombelico Mask Ensemble): 2016 Fringe review 77The Kathak performance weaved together photography and dance, narrative and abstraction, the traditional and the contemporary in an exploration of life’s many off-kilter moments.
View More BALANCE (JheeSha Productions): 2016 Fringe review 76Wild, unabashed, meta upon meta, with a depth of emotional honesty that brings one dangerously close to heartbreak
View More THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOW (César Alvarez): 2016 Fringe review 68.2Four minutes of prolonged eye contact can incur a boost of oxytocin, a chemical that decreases stress and instills positive emotions.
View More FOUR MINUTE BOOTH (Gatto + Hirano): 2016 Fringe review 75In the Art Church, a house of a theater with carpeted stairs and a open room set with rows of chairs, performer collaborators Chana Rothman…
View More KAPPAROT (Daughters of Disruption): 2016 Fringe review 74