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Matteo Lane gets Clusterfested

Joshua Rotter -
ONSTAGE Out New York-based comedian Matteo Lane didn’t dream of a career in comedy, growing up. In fact, the “Moving On” (2015), “Crashing” (2018), and...
Onstage

In Rotimi Agbabiaka’s ‘Manifesto,’ a call to visionary black, queer ambition

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Waiting after school for his mother to pick him up after a high school French club meeting, Rotimi Agbabiaka—whose new show Manifesto plays at...
Dance

Fresh Meat Festival serves up revolutionary trans-queer dance, 17 years on

Caitlin Donohue -
DANCE You will not find another festival out there like this one, or at least one that has embodied the same ongoing dedication to...
Onstage

In ‘Rusalka,’ water nymphs, a frog king, and humanity’s destructive nature

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Leah Hausman worked on Antonín Dvořák’s Rusalka with Sir David McVicar five years ago for the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Now she is directing the...
Onstage

Immersive Jazz Age decadence in ‘The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws’

Dennis Harvey -
ONSTAGE One hundred years ago the US Senate bowed to the pressure of temperance activists and passed the National Prohibition Act. It was one...
Onstage

Tracing how Silicon Valley treats women in ‘The Fit’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Carey Perloff started off as a playwright. Then she was named artistic director of the Classic Stage Company in New York, before coming to...
Onstage

Review: In ‘Oedipus El Rey,’ the wrecks of myth and mass incarceration

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE Ten years after Oedipus El Rey premiered at the Magic Theatre, Luis Alfaro’s drama is being staged there as a legacy revival, again directed by...
Onstage

Review: Herd mentality writ large (and snorting) in ‘Rhinoceros’

Elaine Elinson -
ONSTAGE If you think it unlikely that an absurdist comedy about raging rhinoceroses in a small French town could resonate deeply with the concerns...
Onstage

‘Oedipus’ incarcerated: Esteban Carmona plays imprisoned tragic hero

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE When you watch the Greek tragedy of Oedipus, you know how it’s gong to end. Oedipus, suffering from hubris, will kill his father and...
Onstage

‘The Bald Soprano’: A perfect hour of absurdity returns, fire chief and all

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE Ten years ago, Rob Melrose, who founded the Tenderloin’s Cutting Ball Theatre with his wife Paige Rogers, translated and directed Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist...

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