…which jumps frenetically backward and forward in time—the actors play a sort of musical chairs with their roles. In one moment, for instance, actress Lucy Taylor might be playing “Mother,” but in the next scene,…

Elevator Repair Service collaborated with The Office for Creative Research to create a performance installation in MoMA’s second floor galleries. A Sort of Joy (Thousands of Exhausted Things), part of MoMA’s Artists Experiment program, used…

…at benefit parties, at open rehearsals, on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and most importantly, you are there in the audience when we perform. Your participation completes the whole equation. What we do simply isn’t theater…

…can be both seriously weird and seriously funny, have gained such a following. For instance, while she includes French-speaking chairs in her 2011 play, THE SECRET DEATH OF PUPPETS (or) How Do Puppets Die? (or)…

…emerges most clearly in the sense that the performers resist fully inhabiting their characters. For instance, Tory Vazquez’s coolly brittle and understated affect and Gary Wilmes’s seventies-era moustache serve to explicitly distance those performers from…

…becomes one in 1928 is almost instantly apparent on stage — a true triumph. Equally impressive is the manner in which the 12-person company, under the direction of John Collins, switches between some 27 characters,…

…to novels because a literary connection can expand legit demographics. For instance, he recalls that several student groups who were not regular theatergoers came to “Fahrenheit,” a staple on high school reading lists. “Getting literature…

…situation (in the novel). Picturing the actors from a movie is usually thought to spoil a reader’s ability to create her own images. I suspected instantly that director John Collins had calculated that most of…

…space — more accidents and free association. For instance, one thing that happened in Cab Legs — well, we weren’t even calling it “Cab Legs,” we were calling it “Catastrophe.” One of the actors showed…

…performance and in two three-hour installments, will tour Europe next year before going up at the New York Public Theater next fall, pending final approval by the Fitzgerald estate. Reading an entire book onstage is…