“David Greenspan gives a wild ride of a performance in On Set With Theda Bara.”
Read Lauren Collins-Hughes Full Review in the New York Times.
Screen Time: A Film Star Captivates
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“A New Year” Series Brings Nightmares, Isolation, and Jump-Roping Dinosaurs to The Brick Stage
by Joey Sims
photo credit Walter Wlodarczyk of Chris Ignacio
On Friday, a battle against nightmares. On Saturday, the struggle to accomplish one basic task. On Sunday, a dinosaur trying to jump-rope. And on Sunday, the crushing weight of depression.
Staying Alive, or Live Art in Odd Places
By Patrick Scorese
Exemplar of this is Pioneers Go East Collective and their episodic performance series Lucky Star. The most recent installment was live-streamed as part of Out of an Abundance of Caution (OOAC), a weekly series of avant-garde live performances curated by Lauren Miller, Jessica Almasy, and the Brick Theater’s Theresa Buchheister.
Former Notre Dame student creates online performance
By Sarah Yenesel
Former Notre Dame Regional High School student, Kate Zibluk, is co-curating and co-creating a performance based project called “Out of Caution: The Next Generation,” to be streamed online in conjunction with The Brick Theater in New York City.
Read the full article at semissourian.com
When Theatermakers Long for the Stage, Playfully
By Laura Collins-Hughs
The second short is at least as friendly as the first but far more aching. Told in flashback, it achieves something I had not seen in all the deluge of video that has come in these past 10 months. Largely through black-and-white rehearsal stills of Barbagallo, Davis and Kaminsky, shot at The Brick in Brooklyn, it captures what theater feels like — the everyday incantation of it, and how unreachably far away that seems now.
Read the full article at nytimes.com
LUCKY STAR: superstar at the (Online) Exponential Festival
By Dot Armstrong
Lucky Star: superstar works like a time capsule. The film holds past, future, and present in an intimate, luscious spacetime loop. Fact and fiction, inseparable, blur and tease. Cut to disco ball, still swinging. Slow down and watch the air sparkle. Time swirls here, queerly, as fabulous histories and alien futurities shimmy together in a pleasing confusion.
Theater to Steam: Festivals, Festivals, Festivals
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
Buchheister was excited to link the writer-performer Jess Barbagallo and the musician Nathan Repasz. “Nathan did one of my favorite performances of 2020,” (Buchheister) said, “a percussion piece to Mitt Romney saying that hot dog is his favorite meat.”
Read the full article at nytimes.com
Brooklyn Rail: Brick by Brick – How a Small-Town Manhattanite Dude Judy Evolves with Brooklyn’s Theater Scene and Politics
By Charles Quittner
On January 1, Williamsburg’s The Brick Theater welcomed Theresa Buchheister as its new Artistic Director. Founded by Michael Gardner in 2002, The Brick has been North Brooklyn’s home for eclectic works and experimental plays—ones so unique they’ve even starred my dog. Since taking over, Buchheister has stepped up with bolder and more focused programming, but that all changed once COVID—and revolution—hit. Now, The Brick is an outpost for protestors and the houseless community.
Read the full article at brooklynrail.org
CultureBot: Out of an Abundance of Caution, Volume 27
By Dot Armstrong
Luckily, Out of An Abundance of Caution is here to challenge our collective attention span. Volume 27 offered three inventive, evocative works tracing the contours of bodies past and present, along with a running dialogue about the themes of the evening via Twitch’s live chat feature. Host Maya Sharpe expertly ran the livestream and infused the event with vigor, whimsy, and synonyms.
Read the entire article at culturebot.org
NY Times: New York’s Arts Shutdown
Brooklyn Rail: Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? OZET Lands at The Brick.
By Adam R. Burnett
Here’s what we know so far…
In 1929, after securing approval from the Eurasian Confederated Socialist States (ECSS), 700 “pioneers” were relocated to passing Comet P41. Leading up to the deployment of the First Generation, the comet was prepared through missions that shaped the landscape for human use.
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NY Times: Hungry for Some Unclassifiable Theater? Dinner is Served.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
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American Theatre Magazine: Where Have All the Festivals Gone: A January Wrap-Up
By Nicole Serratore
More wackiness ensued in the comedic play, Jupiter (Exponential), written by comedy troupe Simple Town. They imagined what would happen if the police infiltrated a group of anarchists by literally embedding themselves in the walls.
Read the full article at americantheatre.org
Bigger and Better: Experimental Theater Festival Returns
By Kevin Duggan
And those in the mood for a lighthearted laugh should check out “Catches No Flies,” a comedic dance performance by Lisa Fagan, featuring bad ventriloquism, a dolphin trainer living her dream, inclement weather, and a sardine escaped from the can.
Read the full article at brooklynpaper.com
The Best Things To Do in NYC This Week
By Oriana Leckert
See the bleeding edge of theater at the Exponential Festival, a month-long extravaganza focused on emerging artists and experimental performance. Some highlights: Good and Noble Beings, an adaptation of Deleuze and Guattari’s poststructuralist text A Thousand Plateaus mashed up with memoir and radical reimaginings;
Read the full article at gothamist.com