Theater
Gently Abandoning the Theater: Martina Potratz
By Adam R. BurnettDowntown theater has experienced a diaspora in the past decade, sending companies and venues further out in the boroughs, to neighborhoods that once would have never been considered as viable.
In Dialogue
Manufacturing Michief: PEDRO REYES with Torry Bend
By Torry BendI first came across Pedro Reyes's work while researching performance and social activism. I was profoundly struck by his piece Palas por Pistolas (Shovels for Guns), an initiative that began with a city voluntarily turning in guns and ended with school children planting trees with shovels built from the melted down weapons.
In Dialogue
Private Collection: LAUREN BAKST with Jess Barbagallo
By Jess BarbagalloI keep seeing Lauren Bakst’s performance work Private Collection: in the gallery space of a Bushwick apartment complex, the sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church, a downtown loft on Broadway.
In Conversation
The Marathon Muse of Blessed Unrest: JESSICA BURR and IDRIS GOODWIN with Ivan Talijancic
For the downtown theater cognoscenti, Blessed Unrest hardly requires an introduction. The perspicacious theater ensemble has made a name for itself owing to its boldly physical interpretations of theatrical classics as well as incisive takes on new writing, garnering awards along the way both in the U.S. and abroad.
