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Tisch’s GAP Theater Will Show Songs For A New World
Starting Friday, Tisch’s GAP program will be showing Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World. The GAP program is funded by the Department of Drama, but the productions are entirely student run. The...
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Off-Broadway In Our Own Backyard: The Fourth Street Arts Block
“Are you here for the improv theatre?” “No, sorry; I’m with the mimes. You could maybe check upstairs, but I think there’s a poetry reading going on.” Such was the dialogue on a recent Friday at 85...
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NYU Local Sees An Artsy Play Called Habit And Writes About It
I can tell you how this play ended, and require no spoiler alert: Everyone dies. I could even tell you how they died (Vivienne was killed, Mitchell stabbed himself, and Doug shot himself ). Where they...
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Local And A Show: Paris Commune
I became a History major after watching four seasons of “The Tudors.” Titanic is my go-to film. History is not as interesting to me unless it can be packed into two hours of narrative. When I found out...
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“Not By Bread Alone” Exposes Raw Humanity At Skirball
A man and woman clasp each others hands as they rock back and forth to old music. A woman in a purple flowing dress leans back as her swing floats up and down. A man casually pushes a baby pram, gazing...
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Local Reviews: NYU/GAP’s In the Heights
It would be nearly impossible to pinpoint the most essential aspect of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, but one feature that is undoubtedly integral to the show is...
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Come Hither To Hamlet Young Sirrahs And Mistresses
Something crazy is going on at the Culture Project’s Lynn Redgrave Theater these days, but that isn’t too unusual. The Redgrave, which gained prominence for the politically-charged productions Honor...
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In Fun Home, A Tale Of Coming To Terms With Family, Secrets, And Self
How do you deal with the death of a loved one? In the Public Theater’s Fun Home, graphic novelist Alison Bechdel (inventor of the Bechdel test) chooses a path filled with sardonic humor and artistry....
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Anonymous Ensemble’s “I Land” Is A Lot More “You” Than “I”
The Anonymous Ensemble might be credited with creating and staring in I Land, running until February 9th at the Incubator Arts Project, but the real star is you, rather, the audience. Ensemble members...
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Artistic ManiFranco: A Found Poem From James Franco’s Many Think Pieces
James Franco is, without a doubt, one of the most public and well-mocked celebrities of our time (and NYU’s favorite alum). Even if you don’t take FrancoFest into account, James Franco is beautifully...
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New York Neo-Futurists Condense O’Neill Into Absurdity
L-R: Dylan Marron, Christopher Borg, Cara Francis, Roberta Colindrez, and Cecil Baldwin What’s left of a play if you take away all of the dialogue and perform only the stage directions? That’s the...
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