(NEW YORK, NY) SheNYC Arts, an organization devoted to producing plays, musicals, and adaptations by writers of marginalized genders and who produces summer theater festivals of work by women/trans writers in NYC, LA, and Atlanta, has announced that for the first time this fall they will be producing an off-Broadway run of two shows by Festival alumni writers, September 23 to October 14, 2023 at A.R.T/NY Mezzanine Theater (502 West 53 Street).
Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), the not-for-profit foundation of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), today announced the recipient and four finalists for the 2022 Barbara Whitman Award.
Who is the phoenix when she is in the womb
There’s a corniness in moments like this, and in moments when the play reënacts traumas that are too familiar and too close to us in time to take symbolic flight: a comic dance involving grocery sanitization and uncertainty about mask hygiene left me cringing, but not necessarily clearer about the inner lives of Angel and Bae.
The real intrigue of “Zoetrope” lies in the specifics of its production. Angel and Bae’s apartment one room acting as their whole dysfunctional diorama of a home sits in a small trailer, in an empty lot near Fort Greene Park, in Brooklyn. A handful of audience members take their seats at windows around the trailer, throw a dark curtain over their heads, and look in. The set design self-consciously echoes the effect of a natural-history museum; we watch our two heroes through glass, overhearing them through a pair of flimsy headphones in a way that feels almost accidental. The items in their apartment are lab