Carlo D’Amore, Creative Director of the Drama Desk-nominated Live in Theater, discusses the very personal inspiration for his company’s new interactive and immersive show, “The Trial of Typhoid Mary.”
This episode of the Civilians’ podcast is the final of three that feature songs and monologues from “The Way They Live,” the culminating show of the company’s residency at the Met Museum.
We are celebrating one year of bringing you some of the most exciting stories about investigative theater artists from around the world! Here, we speak to some of the artists we’ve covered since Extended Play launched last year.
This episode of the Civilians’ podcast is the second of three that feature songs and monologues from “The Way They Live,” the final show of the company’s residency at the Met Museum.
PS122’s COIL festival runs at various venues throughout New York City from January 5-17. Extended Play features three shows from this year’s line up.
The Working Theater recently commissioned writer/performer Dan Hoyle to collaborate with director Tamilla Woodard on a research-based theater piece set in the Bronx. They’re in the process of creating “The Block,” which will tour all five New York City Boroughs in Summer 2016.
With “Pike St.,” her first solo show since 2006’s “No Child…,” Nilaja Sun explores her native Lower East Side through the lens of a family weathering a brutal hurricane.
Activist/writer Andrea Ciannavei interviews Jacques Servin and Laura Nix about the Yes Men, the activist performance duo that targets power systems.
Theater artist Talya Klein recounts her challenging experience with “Habitus,” an installation/stage show from multimedia dance company Vector that premiered in March 2015.
“The thing I ask the artist is: What’s urgent to you? And then also: What can you do with groups that you might not be able to do by yourself? There is a politic there. Some people address it head on in a very overt way, and others are more nuanced.”
In May of 2015, Jennie Hahn of Maine’s Open Waters performance collaborative launched a multi-year investigation into the Penobscot River. She invited writer Cory Tamler to help launch the project, which will inform a performance event in 2017.
“The breaking of gentrification, the breaking of cultural ties — it’s a lot of what is happening in Harlem for us right now. That’s what so many people talked about — just losing the thread of the community, of a kind of cultural identity.”
Writer/performers Ilana Becker and Emilyn Kowaleski are bringing two very different investigative theater works to Ars Nova’s ANT Fest, a series that highlights emerging artists throughout the month of June.
Performance artist Aisha Cousins, along with musician Greg Tate, created “Brer Rabbit the Opera” as a response to the shifting demographics in her Brooklyn neighborhood.
“We never felt like ‘professional’ professional artists.” German theater collective Turbo Pascal aggressively creates free and public art in a country where the state-run theater monopolizes professional opportunities.
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