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General Sherman and the Angel of Death, 2019
Thursday, January 31, 2019
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New York, Looking North from Williamsburg Bridge, 2019
New York, Looking North from Williamsburg Bridge, 2019
Sunday, January 20, 2019
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Thursday, January 17, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Lovers at the Taxi Stand, Grand Central Terminal, 2019
Lovers at the Taxi Stand, Grand Central Terminal, 2019
Rolleiflex
Sunday, January 13, 2019
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Carraige Horse in the Morning Sun, Central Park South, 2019
Carraige Horse in the Morning Sun, Central Park South, 2019
Friday, January 11, 2019
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Sunday, January 6, 2019
Playwright Jeremy O. Harris at NYTW, 2019
Playwright Jeremy O. Harris on Stage, 2019
New York Theater Workshop
SLAVE PLAY
SLAVE PLAY
by Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Robert O'Hara
Scenic design by Clint Ramos
Costume design by Dede Ayite
Lighting design by Jiyoun Chang
Sound design by Lindsay Jones
Properties by Noah Mease
Movement by Byron Easley
Intimacy & Fight Director Claire Warden
Dramaturg Amauta Marston-Firmino
Dialect Coach Dawn-Elin Fraser
Stage Manager Jhanaë K-C Bonnick
Costume design by Dede Ayite
Lighting design by Jiyoun Chang
Sound design by Lindsay Jones
Properties by Noah Mease
Movement by Byron Easley
Intimacy & Fight Director Claire Warden
Dramaturg Amauta Marston-Firmino
Dialect Coach Dawn-Elin Fraser
Stage Manager Jhanaë K-C Bonnick
Cast:
Ato Blankson-Wood
James Cusati-Moyer
Sullivan Jones
Chalia La Tour
Irene Sofia Lucio
Annie McNamara
Paul Alexander Nolan
James Cusati-Moyer
Sullivan Jones
Chalia La Tour
Irene Sofia Lucio
Annie McNamara
Paul Alexander Nolan
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Friday, January 4, 2019
Playwright Raja Feather Kelly, 2019
Playwright Raja Feather Kelly, 2019
Park Slope
link:
If I had one thing left to tell you. Imagine this reality: I am in a bed that I call mine, and it is not. In looking at its make-up; bars at the head and end, the
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doubling upward. No one sleeps up there or here with me. There is a door, no more than ten feet away from me, and it keeps people out. As do my sheets to the cold, my eyes to the light, my ribs to my heart and my secret lives to your love. You see, everything around us can parallel our feelings. There is a good reason for cotton, lids, bones and secrets. You caught me once; outside, undressed and your offer had no limit; I could be disarmed though robed forever. If you think it long and mad, the boundaries at self that exists materially and physically, are also emotional. If I left you at the shore, I am only trying to grow down myself. Remember how metal fought nature so we can be closer, and how asking you to consider I never had a cap. So why have you stopped? And, each day, each hour, I feel the slow pain of ‘what if’, and ‘how could I have’, penetrating the destiny of my thinking. The lights in the room have gone out and I cannot see what I am typing it takes me longer to find words with the keys blackened. You too can understand this boundary. There is nothing pretty about its love and you feel that, like I feel my secret lives between us.
I didn’t just come here to dance,if you know what I mean, do you know what I mean?Do you see what I see? Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down. I’ve been a bad, bad girl...I’m feelin’ like a criminal.See no one told you life was gonna be this way, See no one told you life was gonna be this way, See no one told you life was gonna be this way. He’s just too gay to function.Black. We die, Black. you cry- You may die, you may die. I’m not here, this isn’t happening I’m unhappy and sick,I’m unhappy and sick, I’m unhappy and sick. You don’t own me. And I’d like to take a moment, just sit right there to tell you how I became. A creep, I’m a weirdo, I keep dancing on my own. My mind is someplace else, really. How did we come this? I’ve gotta get out of here, someone give me my shot, or I’ll rot here. downtown. Black man, get your money.You know the great thing about Aliens? Let me go! It’s that they don’t exist. But we change that. We make dreams, and movies and we give life to them and we kill them. They have ships and powers, and they remind you that the “other” is far more fascinating and rewarding than repulsive and horrifying. At least if it’s not you.I get so lonely. One is the loneliest number that you ever do, two Be or not to be that is the Question, tell me what you think Ah ah ah ah. My body is a cage...How would you approach translating this? You do not know?(MORE)
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RAJA IN MIC (CONT'D) So what can you tell?Lonely,lonely that is you. I can tell you that it is impossible to translate. I would need to be able to interact with it.You did not need that before. I did not need that because I already knew the language, but this is...I know what you're doing. Tell me what I'm doing? Ahh, look at all the lonely people. I'm just telling you what it would take to do this. Give me an example of how you might use it.Im in love again—because they’re too young, you know, to kind of get it— My love don’t cost a thing If I was young I’d flee town and I bury my dreams underground . He never wants to cry. I used to think this was the beginning of my story. Memory is a strange thing. It does not work they way we want it to. Did I say we were bound by time. Or did I call them slaves. Enslaved....But now I'm not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. There are days that define your story beyond your life. Like the day I arrived. We all have a weakness Thanks. It's not true, but it proves my point.’ I was born this wayGotta move, gotta get out Gotta leave this place, gotta find some place Some other place, some brand new place Some place where each face that I see Won't be staring back at me Telling me what to be and how to be it Some place where I can just be me. —Or would it be better just to let things be? living here in this new world might be a fantasy—is this happiness? is this happiness? is this happiness? is this happiness?I am going to give birth to an animated voodoo doll of myself.She said, Establishing communication is going to be really difficult--A grammar in three dimensions
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Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Playwright Kate Tarker, 2019
Playwright Kate Tarker, 2019
SoHo Rep Theater
Walker Street
2018
Thunderbodies
by Kate Tarker
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
GROTILDE
The times are strange.
The times are uncouth.
Time has washed up against my clit
And drifted away again.
Look at my laugh lines, on my thighs.
They tell the story of how much I have smoked.
My pubes are great adventurers.
Sometimes they climb up my chin.
If you trace my cellulite, you can map out constellations.
Andromeda on my upper right butt.
Canis minor on the lower left.
I have a six pack of butts.
I am of great immensity.
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Playwright Jocelyn Bioh, Lucille Lortel Theater, 2019
Playwright Jocelyn Bioh 2019
Lucille Lortel Theater
MCC
School Girls, Or; The African Mean Girls Play
by Jocelyn Bioh
directed by
Rebecca Taichman
cast:
MaameYaa Boafo, Paige Gilbert, Zainab Jah, Abena Mensah-Bonsu, Mirirai Sithole, and Myra Lucretia Taylor, Latoya Edwards, Joanna A. Jones,
School Girls, Or; The African Mean Girls Play
by Jocelyn Bioh
directed by
Rebecca Taichman
cast:
MaameYaa Boafo, Paige Gilbert, Zainab Jah, Abena Mensah-Bonsu, Mirirai Sithole, and Myra Lucretia Taylor, Latoya Edwards, Joanna A. Jones,
set design by ARNULFO MALDONADO
costume design by DEDE AYITE
lighting design by JEN SCHRIEVER
sound design by PALMER HEFFERAN
hair and wig design by COOKIE JORDAN
prop design by NOAH MEASE
dialect coach DEBORAH HECHT
Playwright Steven Levenson, The Tony Kiser Theater, Second Stage, 2019
Playwright Steven Levenson, 2019
The Tony Kiser Theater, Second Stage,
2018
Days Of Rage
by Steven Levenson
Directed by Trip Cullman
Cast :Mike Faist, Tavi Gevinson, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Lauren Patten and Odessa Young
scenic design by Louisa Thompson, costume design by Paloma Young, lighting design by Tyler Micoleau and sound design by Darron L. West.
scenic design by Louisa Thompson, costume design by Paloma Young, lighting design by Tyler Micoleau and sound design by Darron L. West.