The attacks of September 11, 2001, changed American life in lasting ways. Nearly 3,000 people were killed, and the aftermath reshaped politics, foreign policy, air travel, domestic surveillance, and the nation’s sense of security.
Stepping into The Whole Sky All Diamonds feels less like arriving at a theater than starting a new job, as Bixby Elliot and director Jack Dentinger transform a Greenpoint loft into Füfl, an absurdly ambitious tech startup where audiences become employees inside a funny, increasingly poignant examination of work, technology, and human connection.
Politicians come and go, but bureaucracies endure. Daniel R. O’Brien explores that idea in Jugular, a ninety-minute political satire about urgent contemporary issues. A graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts, O’Brien is an award-winning playwright.
Playwright Brian S. Brijbag’s ‘Funeral of god‘ blends comedy and philosophy to explore questions of faith, meaning, and humanity’s relationship with the divine. Instead of waiting for Godot, a troupe of actors are waiting for god. The major difference is that Brijbag adds more humor than Beckett.
We assume love has one beginning, one turmoil, one ending — until Shifters walks into Cherry Lane Theatre and rewrites it.
The Shed is an innovative 200,000-square-foot structure designed to support artists’ ideas. Its movable outer shell can cover the plaza, creating a large, temperature-controlled hall.
Taylor Jon Gonzalez’s ‘Chapter Meeting’ arrives at Wild Project as a sharp ensemble comedy that mines humor from political organizing, proving that even the most idealistic movements aren’t immune to personality clashes and unexpected compromises.
Avi Amon’s grandmother’s apartment building in Istanbul was torn down—there one day and gone the next.
Dance is often called a universal language because it can communicate what words cannot.
Governments have often treated Indigenous peoples as a “problem” to be solved through assimilation.