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.
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.
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 whole thing about a tech is that the designers are all trapped at tables… So, in a way, the degree to which an audience member is trapped in a seat is very much the way the designers are trapped at their stations.”
Performance art duo PearlDamour investigates the corners of America in their latest community engagement experiment and site-specific performance “Milton.”
“I don’t want to make a piece that bums people out. You can start to sound precious saying stuff like this, but in my mind, human connection and empathy are some of the highest aims of art.”
Vanity Fair Columnist Richard Lawson and “Mr. Burns” creators Steve Cosson and Anne Washburn discuss the cartoon that has influenced American humor and political ideology since the late 80s.
Actor Tony Torn talks to artist Jeanine Oleson about her experiments moving opera off the proscenium stage and into the interactive space of the New Museum.
Steve Cosson and Cynthia Hopkins discuss their different theatrical journeys through the Arctic to address the global climate change crisis.
In his new musical “The Universe is a Small Hat,” writer/director César Alvarez invites audiences to build a society on a techno-utopian space colony.
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