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Festival Season Round-Up

Wading through two weeks of madness.

Jan 20 • 

Joey Sims

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December 2024

Best Theater of 2024

The list.

Dec 31, 2024 • 

Joey Sims

9

“The Connelly Was Built In The Cracks”

Josh Luxenberg, longtime director and general manager of the Connelly Theater, reflects on the historic East Village venue's loss

Dec 12, 2024 • 

Joey Sims

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A Ferocious Play About Love, From a Director Who Embraces the Surreal

Rory McGregor takes on Philip Ridley’s “Tender Napalm”—and Theaterlab’s infamous pole

Dec 10, 2024 • 

Joey Sims

1

September 2024

For Adult Film & Hoi Polloi, Brooklyn Homes Become Wild Playgrounds

Adult Film's Bushwick home is growing, while Hoi Polloi gives Celine Song's "Family" a site-specific staging

Sep 29, 2024 • 

Joey Sims

1

August 2024

The Theater Maker Who Just Wants to Keep Going Smaller

Designer and visual artist Dan Daly re-centers "The Story Of Lot's Wife" as a performer-less experience for one audience member

Aug 22, 2024 • 

Joey Sims

6

June 2024

Trying Again, Failing Again in ‘Das Ersatz’

Dance-theater duo Cosimo Pori and Travis Amiel ponder our replaceability

Jun 5, 2024 • 

Joey Sims

3

May 2024

Blood, Madness, and More Blood: Theater MITU Dissects An Obsession

The experimental troupe is sticking around in Gowanus — after a quick trip to the Moon

May 18, 2024 • 

Joey Sims

1

Off Broadway Round-Up: The Moody Month of May

Plus: Some of my other recent theatrical writing

May 8, 2024 • 

Joey Sims

3

April 2024

In ‘Travels,’ Ars Nova Becomes a Listening Bar for a Sonic Odyssey

Storyteller James Harrison Monaco and friends craft an epic travelogue set to music

Apr 1, 2024 • 

Joey Sims

3

March 2024

Grief Is A Funny Thing. No, Really.

Three playwrights discuss finding unexpected laughs in the despair

Mar 14, 2024 • 

Joey Sims

2

January 2024

Festival Season Round-Up: Part 2

Or, as one fellow critic announced after a grueling show: "Neil Simon, get behind me!"

Jan 24, 2024 • 

Joey Sims

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