Tag Archives: Brooklyn

Source Text: William S. Burroughs Directed & Conceived: Mallory Catlett Reviewer: Adrienne Sowers The pedigree behind Mallory Catlett’s Decoder: The Ticket that Exploded is vastly impressive.  With support from Gibney Dance and Theatre Conspiracy, Stony Brook University, CultureHub, Playwrights Theatre Center, Mabou Mines, the Collapsable Hole, and the Watermill Center (via the National Endowment for the Arts), this is the ...

Writer: Lisa Clair Director: Eugene Ma Reviewer: Adrienne Sowers Lisa Clair’s new play The Making of King Kong, presented by Target Margin Theater, is an ambitious piece that examines racism, sexism, and classism through a darkly comedic portrayal of the creating of the film King Kong, directed by Merian C. Cooper and starring Fay Wray. Leaning into the problematic components of ...

Host: Sriya Sarkar Reviewer: Jamie Rosler It’s not easy to get people to attend a stand-up comedy and storytelling show about abortion. One would be forgiven for thinking it’s not easy to get people to laugh at a stand-up comedy and storytelling show about abortion, once they get there. Speakout Laughout, as part of the Cinder Block Comedy Festival, does a ...

Writer: William Shakespeare Adaptor: Dzieci Theatre Director: Matt Mitler Reviewer: Carrie Lee O’Dell As part of their 20th anniversary season, Dzieci Theatre brings their Roma-infused version of Shakespeare’s bloodiest play to a seemingly unlikely venue—a recycling center in Bushwick. Staged in a shipping container, Makbet is a bare-bones production with no recorded sound, minimal props, costumes and lighting, and a ...

Writer/Creator: The Assembly (Stephen Aubrey, Edward Bauer, Ben Beckley, Nick Benacerraf, Kate Benson, Marianne Broome, Jess Chayes, Anna Abhau Elliott, Luke Harlan, Emily Louise Perkins) Director: Jess Chayes Reviewer: Jamie Rosler Protests and left-wing radicalism. Sexual politics and patriarchal male behavior. Illegal war and racial tension. Home/Sick is ostensibly a story about the Weather Underground of the 1960s, but clearly has deep ...

Creator: Eliot Glazer Reviewer: Jamie Rosler If there’s anything you can count on in a room full of millennials in Brooklyn, it’s a love of childhood nostalgia couched in cool detachment and irony. Eliot Glazer’s An Even More Special Haunting Renditions Holiday Show caters perfectly to that crowd, while slowly getting them to let down their guard and have an honestly fun ...

Director: Austin McCormick Choreographer: Austin McCormick Reviewer: Tim Koch You don’t always have to learn Greek mythology in the classroom. And it doesn’t have to be boring. In Brooklyn, a new kind of classical lesson is taking place. As one steps into the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, it is immediately evident that Company XIV’s PARIS is different. A drink menu ...

Director: Josh Aviner Reviewer: Adrienne Sowers A night at the club turns deadly in Hideaway Circus’ latest piece, Slumber, at the House of Yes in Brooklyn. A cast of extremely talented performers is picked off one-by-one, by one of their own, in this hilariously dark movement theatre piece. A supernaturally talented ensemble cast of Olga Karmansky, Lee Hubilla, Anya Sapozhnikova, ...