But in “Memories of a Journey to Lithuania,” Mekas returns to his rural hometown of Semeniskiai nearly 30 years later, and the immersive setup makes you feel as if you were there with him, having a beer with Adolfas and their elderly mother. In “This Side of Heaven” you teach Jackie Kennedy’s children to use …
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Released in 1972 and now rediscovered, the movie is as ambitious as “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song” and even weirder. Source link
But if the actor’s grasp of the character is puzzling, the character’s grasp of the audience is poor—as so often in the avant-garde. To make up for it, the playwright finally reveals the weapon you’ve been waiting for all along. In a way, a gun on stage is not like a dog: it tears through …
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But if the actor’s grasp of the character is puzzling, the character’s grasp of the audience is poor—as so often in the avant-garde. To make up for it, the playwright finally reveals the weapon you’ve been waiting for all along. In a way, a gun on stage is not like a dog: it tears through …
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Last Wednesday, employees of the Under the Radar festival agreed on a way forward. They would limit the number of performances at the festival. They did not provide food or drink. The People’s Theater hosting this annual celebration of experimental performance has already required audience members to submit negative PCR or rapid antigen test results, …
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Sylvère Lotringer, who popularized French critical theory in the United States, inspired the “Matrix” film series, hosted conferences for counterculture celebrities, named after a critically acclaimed novel and a television series based on it, has sparked a backlash on Fox. it happened. He founded News and an influential publishing house—all while trying to leave behind …
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In 2017, Columbia University-trained oral historian Svetlana Kitto, who writes frequently about art, found herself at the Gordon Robichaux gallery researching a catalog for “Objects/Time/Proposals,” an installation by artist Ken Tisa. Encountering the name Sara Penn over and over again? Who was he? Those with a long memory for fashion may remember Sara Penn as …
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Three new plays in experimental styles test the extra-urban possibilities of a true urban theater. Source link
When Blanka Zizka retires from her job as artistic director Wilma Theater At the end of July, it was truly the end of an era. “I’ve been in this business for 40 years,” Zizka said in a video interview from Philadelphia, where the company is located. “That’s a long time.” Zizka and her husband Jiri …
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