What does survival demand of those who return—and of those who helped bring them home?
Theater
After a triumphant run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Yes And… Laughter Lab Finals, Canadian-born comic Aditya Mayya brought his deeply hilarious and poignant hour long special, ‘Aditya Mayya Pretends to be Sad’, back to his New York home base on Oct 18.
The emotional scars of the past show in ‘The Story,’ directed by Clint Dyer, written by Tracey Scott Wilson, and starring Letitia Wright and Lorraine Toussaint.
‘Aphasia’ begins with an act of listening.
From powerful performances to elaborate costumes and thought-provoking storytelling, MIDNIGHT proves that big theatrical moments don’t always need a Broadway-sized stage.
‘The Bald Soprano’ begins with the reassuring familiarity of a British couple chatting at home—and then gleefully dismantles every expectation.
As agencies such as ICE and the Department of Homeland Security cast immigrant communities as threats to the nation, ‘End Credits’ confronts an earlier abuse of state power whose logic remains chillingly current.
Press describes itself as “a production company against apathy,” and its staging of Myles Keogh’s ‘Wolf!’ delivers on that mission with unnerving force.
In ‘The Ask’, the deepest divide is not between left and right, but within the left itself.
What if dogs could finally tell us what they think of us?