(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: The cart, moments before it leaves the stage for China) What a closing weekend! Two out of the three final shows sold out; two out of three with standing ovations; all three shows among our best. I think it was the strongest we’ve ever closed a show (though to quote Szymborska,…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Liz Douglas, Chris Wight, Becky Byers) Helen Shaw’s review for Time Out New York is out! We’d been hoping to lure one of the 3 regular TONY reviewers to our shows for some time now, as they have a great track record of championing artists off the beaten path (Cote for…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Lori E. Parquet, Chris Wight) Shawn C. Harris, the playwright of Tulpa, or Anne & Me, uses Dog Act as a springboard to consider the power of naming, particularly as it concerns the ongoing development of her queer Black womanist liberation poiesis. It’s a great read, with this whole irreducible paragraph…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Liz Douglas, Becky Byers) I hadn’t heard of Big Vision, Empty Wallet (though I connect a wee bit with the concept) and so was psyched that Mateo Moreno’s review was not only good, but introduced me to a new website! It’s a combo review with Beirut, another play that imagines the…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbum. Pictured: Zack Robidas, Julian Stetkevych) John Peacock has made Flavorpill an Editor Pick! Though short, it certainly is sweet, and I’m happy to choose this as my favorite quote: A brilliant blend of savagery and poignancy, the play succeeds in being humorous and thoughtful in equal measures, an elegy for humanity and…
At TCG (my goodly employer) yesterday, we posted this call to action on the proposed cuts/zeroing of the NEA in the FY11 budget. The post inspired the goodly David J. Loehr to propose #NEA365, an online compendium of at least 365 projects that would not have been possible without support from the NEA. Flux receives…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Lori E. Parquet, Chris Wight) Will Kenton’s review is up at Cultural Capitol! As you may recall, I appreciated the wider angle he brought to his Jacob’s House review, and he brings the same insights to the this review, perhaps best exemplified by this great quote: The play is a riff…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Liz Douglas, Becky Byers) Karen Tortora-Lee’s review is out at The Happiest Medium! Karen is another one of our long time reviewers, so we always look forward to her take on our work. I lover her comparison of Zetta to Quixote (and the stories within stories structure of both make the…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Chris Wight, Lori E. Parquet) Aaron Grunfeld returns to Flux for his Metromix review: the last (and only) time he reviewed us was for Pretty Theft, and I was especially interested his structural questions regarding the middle of the play (after many months, I think the decisive factor was our inability…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Lori E. Parquet, Becky Byers, Liz Douglas) Will Fulton’s review for nytheatre.com is out. As a reviewer who is new to me, I checked out his bio and discovered he has both worked with 500 Clown and has a B.A. in Comparative Literature, which may be an ideal combination for a…
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