3!

July 22, 2009
Reviewed by VanLoan
vanloan@nyconstage.org

3! was part of the Underground Zero Festival at PS 122

Doris Mirescu’s theater company Dangerous Ground specializes in creating multimedia “experiments” often using art house film classics as source material (i.e. Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris). However, one is totally unprepared for the visual and aural onslaught upon entering [...]

Le Serpent Rouge

Company XIV
303 Bond St
May 23, 2009
Reviewed by VanLoan
vanloan@nyconstage.org

Hot on the heels (no pun intended) of this winter’s delightfully debauched The Judgment of Paris, uber-talented Austin McCormick returns with Le Serpent Rouge. Working out of his company’s home space, a converted warehouse in Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens (the non-gentrified section), McCormick’s latest dance-theater piece is subtitled A [...]

Astronome

Ontological Theater @ St. Mark’s Church
March 8, 2009
Reviewed by VanLoan
vanloan@nyconstage.org

Once again, that avant-garde shaman extraordinaire Richard Foreman continues to shock and awe. His latest environmental theater piece (an annual event at St. Mark’s in the Bowery) Astronome covers new territory. Subtitled A Night at the Opera, Astronome is a collaboration with John Zorn, the musical [...]