The Brooklyn Rail

SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES
Stage Designer Mimi Lien

By Marcina Zaccaria

Set Designer Mimi Lien, a 2015 recipient of the MacArthur ”genius” grant, has been designing for theater since 2003. Among her credits are Outrage, An Octoroon, and Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812.

In Dialogue

6 Translations, 4 Acts, and 11 Vanyas
New Saloon’s Minor Character

By Ariel Stess

I first saw New Saloon’s work when I attended a reading of Milo Cramer’s at BAM in a rehearsal studio. Morgan directed it. Maddie acted in it. I came across New Saloon again during a Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program in 2014, which I was also participating in.

America: A Performance in Five Miltons

By Ben Gassman

What does it mean to be an American? Back in 2012, Katie Pearl and Lisa D’Amour found themselves exasperated but inspired by this question.