CITYSONG: PRAISE BE

CITYSONG: PRAISE BE

I’m not going to tell you that either this script or this production is perfect, but I am going to say hallelujah! Let’s hear it for the long view. Let’s hear it for philosophical and artistic ambition. Let’s hear it for the tenderness, confidence, and commitment this...
JULIET & ROMEO: THE TRAP OF ROMANTICISM

JULIET & ROMEO: THE TRAP OF ROMANTICISM

About halfway through, Juliet & Romeo takes a turn that made me like it a lot more, although I was already having a good time with it.   Conceived and directed by Ben Duke, and devised by Duke and Solène Weinachter, who were its original performers, this...
END OF GREATNESS: TRANSCENDENT

END OF GREATNESS: TRANSCENDENT

Ambitious. Meditative. I loved it.   The end of greatness is a cosmological concept that, in the words of writers Veda Hille and Maiko Yamamoto, theorizes “the point in the universe where everything stops being unique and starts being repetitive.” As I understand...