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The Foley Explosion | History, History, History

The festival of radical new performance NOW 17 at the Yard Theatre ends with two sophisticated investigations into the real and the imagined. The Foley Explosion and History, History, History explore, forget and reinvent the rules of storytelling. (more…)

The Future is Putting Everything Off Until Then

Deborah Pearson’s The Future Show is a love/hate affair. After writing this theatre review, I will send it to the Editor, Kathleen, who will analyze it and make corrections. She will send it back to me to be finalized. As my cursor makes virtual contact with the “Publish” button, I will begin to worry what the artist, Deborah, will think of my review. Will she even read it? Does anyone read this?…

Chatting With Andy Field, Co-Director of the Forest Fringe

“I kind of see the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as the hideous and perfect mirror of late globalized capitalism,” the British artist Andy Field told me in a recent Skype conversation. “It’s nominally open and democratic—anyone can participate in it—but there are so many barriers to participation. The cost of it, but also these invisible prescriptions on what kind of work you can do there.”

“But at…