Attendees are not treated by this work as passive receptors, or people passing judgment, or those seeking to be entertained, with a singular show-as-object at the center of attention. No Hero aims instead to be one part of an exchange. Read more…
Reviews
Josef von Sternberg’s Anatahan is His Power(ful) Manifesto Kino Lorber Brings Back the 1953 Masterpiece for Blu-Ray and DVD
It’s Sternberg’s most challenging look into male desire-cum-power, and the danger that lurks underneath our thick “civilized” skins. Read more…
Ragtime as Resistance
The strength of these performances in particular allowed Ragtime’s message, a pushback against apathy and silence, and condemnation of the oppression and fracturing that results from imposed social categories and hierarchies, to shine through nuanced portrayals of a multitude of American realities. Read more…
To See Ourselves Correctly TAPS' Production of The Laramie Project
In the same way that you as the audience must see, through the graphic descriptions of Matthew’s injuries, his brutal victimization, you must also see McKinney as a human with a face and a young child. You must see the old teachers who will not desert Henderson, the pastor who wants to save McKinney’s soul but not his body from the electric chair, the student actor who can never quite “agree” with homosexuality, the doctors and detectives and students who break down and lose friends when everything they thought they knew about their town and themselves shatters. Read more…
Saint Joan Meets Spunk A Review of TAPS' Saint Joan of the Stockyards
It collided the gendered power-play of the script with the fact of its all-female cast, forcing the audience to consider how the play’s themes of capitalist injustices intersect with issues of feminism or gender. Read more…
A Passionate, Haunting Party Reveling in the beauty and horror of The Wild Party
The Wild Party warns of the consequences of desire, but also reminds us that to want is to be human. Read more…
Mellow to a Fault the opioid haze of Needles and Opium
It may not be a traditional or successful narrative, but it is certainly a sensory and unique theatrical experience. Read more…
TAPS’ The Tempest Impresses
From the clamor of the storm at sea to the exotic forestry of the island, The Tempest proved to be a very tight production. Read more…
Imaginary Art and Imaginary Protest The Asian American Theater Production’s Caught
It is completely unafraid in its chaos. Read more…
Kanye’s contentment in “Bed”
With his decision to cover The-Dream and J. Holiday’s “Bed,” Kanye is taking a break from his grandiose exterior and delving into the personal. Read more…