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The Ben Shapiro Project and Our bodies like dams

Exponential Festival; presented at The Brick; “Shapiro” created by Ella Davidson, “Dams” created by Sarah Finn

The Ben Shapiro Project, which Davidson co-directed with Paul Levine, smartly explores the maddening traps set by well-dressed trolls like Shapiro. Ignoring them doesn’t work; but mocking them, Davidson notes, isn’t really effective either.”

Read Joey Sims full reviews of The Ben Shapiro Project and Our bodies like dams on his Substack.

A NEW PLAY CENTERING ASIAN AMERICAN ASSIMILATION COMES TO THE BRICK

Hillary Gao’s new play, would you set the table if I asked you to?considers the cost of assimilation through a uniquely theatrical and culturally specific lens. Featuring an intergenerational cast of all Asian actors…as Hillary says, ‘This play is not setting out to solve assimilation or impart any broader insights into the Asian American experience.’”

Read Billy McEntee’s full interview with Hillary Gao on Greenpointers.

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

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

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