STORIES I’VE TOLD
‘Disclaimer’ Turns the Spotlight on Its Audience
American Theatre, March 24, 2021
Can a culturally appropriative murder mystery in the guise of a cooking class prevent war with Iran? Piehole’s interactive new Zoom play aims to find out.
Review: A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call
Exeunt NYC, January 7, 2021
A new work by 600 Highwaymen as part of the Under the Radar festival asks strangers to share with each other on a phone call. Daniel Krane reviews.
Agnes Borinsky and the Working Group for a New Spirit Are Taking Inventory of Our Lives
The Brooklyn Rail, November 5, 2020
How can we find assurance and community in our upside down world? Enter the Working Group for a New Spirit, playwright Agnes Borinsky’s free initiative that offers a virtual home for artists, seminars in how to take stock of our lives, and more.
AT WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, STUDENTS PIONEER NEW TECHNIQUES IN ZOOM THEATER
Extended Play, June 17, 2020
A Wesleyan University Theater Department production of the Rude Mechs’ The Method Gun takes devised theater digital.
The Memory of a Mining Disaster’s Aftermath Lives On in “Coal Country”
Extended Play, May 18, 2020
Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen discuss their documentary play Coal Country before and after its coronavirus cancellation.
The Night the lights went off off-broadway
American Theatre, March 20, 2020
Theater folks mourn closed shows and unseen work, and worry over the impact on emerging artists.
Tina Satter Unlocks the Drama of an FBI Transcript
Extended Play, February 18, 2020
Director Tina Satter on how she and Half Straddle brought a verbatim FBI transcript to life in Is This A Room.
Review: A School for Fools
Exeunt NYC, July 15, 2020
Belarus Free Theatre expands the boundaries of a laptop or tablet with their imaginative livestream experience. Daniel Krane reviews.
REVIEW: THE HOMEBOUND PROJECT, SECOND EDITION
Exeunt NYC, May 28, 2020
The Homebound Project offers a tasty theatrical buffet with 11 bite-sized shorts by playwrights like Anne Washburn and Ngozi Anyanwu. Daniel Krane sups on the series’ sustenance.
At Under the Radar, It’s “Mardi Gras for Experimental Theater”
Extended Play, January 12, 2020
Interviews with Mark Russell, the Director of the Under the Radar Festival, and Héctor Flores Komatsu, the director and writer of Andares, in advance of the 2020 Under the Radar Festival.
Trap Music Meets Investigative Theater in Stacey Rose’s “Trapt”
Extended Play, December 12, 2019
The creative team behind TRAPT, a devised investigative theater piece about trap music, discusses their creative process and ongoing reckoning with trap music in advance of a presentation at Joe's Pub.
“Martha, the Last Pigeon” Lives Again: Behind the Scenes of the Music Video of a Michael Friedman Classic
Extended Play, December 3, 2019
Extended Play's Daniel Krane interviews Alix Lambert and Brian Young about the making of the music video for a classic Michael Friedman song and what Michael Friedman's work means to them.