All posts tagged Dog Act

NYIT Awards tonight!

A super-fast reminder that amidst the flurry of new membership, weddings, and the preparation for a fall chock-full of exciting projects (stay tuned!), Flux is attending tonight’s New York Innovative Theatre Award ceremonies. We’ll be performing a short play and expressing our very humble thanks as we accept the Caffe Cino Fellowship Award, crossing our…

Dog Act Review: Jen Gunnels, The New York Review of Science Fiction

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Becky Byers, Squish, Liz Douglas) In this case, very much better later than never. Jen Gunnels for the New York Review of Science Fiction is only available in hard copy; perhaps apt for a play about what happens when the digital world disappears, and takes almost every piece of cultural memory…

Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Awards

We just found out that Dog Act was nominated as Outstanding Off-Off Broadway Show for a Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Award by the Independent Theater Bloggers Association! Readers of this blog know my high esteem of Patrick’s work as a reviewer, and my sadness over his untimely death, so this is especially exciting for us….

Dog Act Review: NeoAdamite, All That Chat

(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,…

Dog Act Review: Helen Shaw, Time Out New York

(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…

Dog Act Response: Shawn Harris, RVC Bard

(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…

Dog Act Review: Mateo Moreno; Big Vision, Empty Wallet

(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…

Dog Act Review: John Peacock, Flavorpill

(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…

Dog Act Review: Will Kenton, Cultural Capitol

(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…

Dog Act Review: Karen Tortora-Lee, The Happiest Medium

(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…

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