This hard-to-categorize show employs an innovative technology called the "BodyMouth" in a dance-theater-opera performance that references mythological female forest creatures from Balkan folklore, commenting on the othering and suppression of women and the female voice.
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Theater Review: ‘Punch’ Makes Its Broadway Impact
In ''Punch' Jacob learns that violence isn't an answer to his feelings of inferiority. Self-acceptance and forgiveness come from accountability and truth.
Read More »Interview: Heartbeat Opera’s Dan Schlosberg and Jacob Ashworth on Heartbeat’s Past, Present, Future—and Halloween Drag Show!
"We couldn't do this show in some places. Even opera, with some people not wanting to perform 'The Marriage of Figaro!'…But we're thankful that we're here in New York and for the moment we're able to do this in its full glory."
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Bliss Option’ by Andrew R. Heinze
A newly unemployed husband and father finds himself discarded by his family as a no-longer-needed "commodity." Now he's a perfect candidate for a government-sponsored virtual-reality coma. But is the Bliss Option as blissful as advertised?
Read More »Theater Review: The Long-Overdue New York Premiere of ‘Slaughter City’ by Naomi Wallace
Naomi Wallace's magical-realist fable about a strike at a slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant receives a long-overdue New York premiere.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘Saturday Church,’ a Hot Musical
In the musical 'Saturday Church' Ulysses finds his way with the help of Raymond, Ebony, the community of Saturday Church and Black Jesus (J. Harrison Ghee).
Read More »Concert/Dance Review: Paola Prestini’s ‘House of Zodiac’
This truly original event at the Green-Wood Cemetery catacombs took in the definitions of concert, dance, and theater.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Traitors’ Resurrects the Legend of John Brown
The legend of John Brown's 1859 abolitionist raid is ripe for re-examining, but a new play set in a home for the mentally ill doesn't measure up.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Blood Orange’ by Abigail Duclos
Viscerally a horror yarn, dramatically a study of character among teenage girls, this harrowing play has at its core a story of friendship.
Read More »Theatre Review (Singapore): ‘Hotel’ by Wild Rice
'Hotel' is a tale of a hotel room that is witness to Singapore's history from 1915 to 2015. There are 11 stories that span 100 years, from colonial atrocities to the psychedelic 1960s and eventually the poignant 2000s.
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