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Playwright Erik Ehn on Soulographie: Our Genocides a Commemorative Cycle

Jody Christopherson | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: El Salvador, Erik Ehn, Theater of Yugen, Tulsa-Oklahoma, San Salvador, Africa, La Mama, Uganda, Playwrighting, Theater for Change, Tulsa, Rwanda, Witnessing, Soulographie, New York Theater, Video, Kony and Child Soldiers, Arts News
Jody Christopherson

Playwrights like these, clearly passionate people who are willing to risk, willing to do things the hard way -- they have the important and difficult task of sharing what they've seen. How do they begin to speak the unspeakable?

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RIP, Performance Artist, Playwright, And 'Alien Comic' Tom Murrin

Posted 03.13.2012

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Tom Murrin, the beloved New York performance art icon, passed away yesterday after a long struggle with cancer, The Village Voice reports. "The Ali...

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Curtis M. Wong

Underground Belarusian Theater Troupe Returns To New York

HuffingtonPost.com | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 06.17.2011

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Most artists grapple with various challenges in their decision to pursue a career in the theater, from first-time audition jitters to long-term financ...

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Haiti Is Wailing: Gina Athena Ulysse, Anthropologist and Performing Artist

Jennifer Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Performance Art, Jennifer Edwards, La Mama, Spoken Word, Haiti, New York, Gina-Athena-Ulysse, Anthropology, Haitian Writer, Wesleyan University, Arts News
Jennifer Edwards

Haiti is Gina's reason for everything. A self-described accidental student, she earned her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology in hopes of helping her birth-country.

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Puppets Take Manhattan

Pamela Newton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stuffed and Unstrung, Puppets, Bread and Puppet, Band of Puppets, Basil Twist, Puppet Playlist, Avenue Q, David Bowie, Labyrinth, Jim Henson, Here, St. Ann's Warehouse, The Bushwick Starr, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Tank, Southpark, La Mama, Entertainment News
Pamela Newton

What's the deal with the puppets? Puppets, like cartoons, used to be for kids. But these days, they're more often conduits for high-brow visual lyricism. Clearly, we in New York are having a puppet moment.

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Daniel Beaty's 'Chosen Schizophrenia' Drives His Solo Playwriting

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Off-Broadway, Playwriting, New York City, James Weldon Johnson, Broadway, Through the Night, Bronx, National Urban League, Acting, Martin Luther King, Daniel Beaty, African Americans, Obie Awards, Arts, Theatre, La Mama, Union Square Theatre, Shakespeare, Love Never Dies, Arts News
James Sims

"Are you asking me if I'm a control freak?" Daniel Beaty asks me as I question his decision to turn an ensemble play into a solo work.

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Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine & Rites of Passage: Songs of Scythian Stones

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joseph Campbell, Myth, Mongolia, Scythian Stones, Gogol Bordello, Kyrgyzstan, Yara Arts Group, Ukraine, La Mama, Eugene Hutz, Virlana Tkacz, Arts News
Michal Shapiro

Virlana Tkacz's work with the Yara Arts Group reflects her desire to re-integrate the ancient "ways of knowing" as she puts it, into modern life.

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A Remarkable Class

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ashé Cultural Center, Youth Speaks, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, Alternate Roots, First Peoples Fund, Arts Management, Nalacc-and-Lou-Dobbs, Asian Arts Initiative, Pa?I Foundation, Ford Foundation, La Mama, Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy, Kennedy Center, Entertainment News
Michael Kaiser

I recently began teaching a series of arts management seminars for ten grantees of the Ford Foundation. The Foundation has committed $100 million ove...

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Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame

Derek Beres | Posted 05.25.2011

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Derek Beres

Heavy Like the Weight of a Flame, aside from a few theatrical embellishments, is an excellently staged piece.

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