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A New Home and a New Show for a Venerable Queens Theatre Company

By JOSE SOLÍS

Friday, February 08, 2019 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Fri Feb 8, 2019 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Astoria Performing Arts Center mounts its first production in its new space --- Last Labor Day weekend, as most New Yorkers basked in the last vestiges of summer, a Queens theatre company was saying goodbye to its decade-long home. The folks at Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC) had known for months that their lease at the Good Shepherd United...

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Come Expecting a Celebration, Not a Show

By ALLISON CONSIDINE

Wednesday, January 16, 2019 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Wed Jan 16, 2019 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Diana Oh's latest offering is tough to define but oh so much fun Diana Oh is throwing a bash and everyone is invited. On Friday and Saturday evenings at Brooklyn's Bushwick Starr, the genre-busting, fourth-wall-smashing performance artist hosts The Infinite Love Party, an immersive shindig with a picnic-style potluck dinner, a deejay and dancing,...

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Facing the Real Monsters in 'King Kong'

By DIEP TRAN

Thursday, December 06, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Thu Dec 6, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

A new satire wrestles with the controversial 1933 classic --- While writing The Making of King Kong, Lisa Clair almost abandoned the project. "It is too big, it is too scary," the recent graduate of Brooklyn College's playwriting program recalls thinking. She wasn't frightened of the oversize title ape; she was wary of the piece's giant themes: racism...

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Still Making Provocative Theatre After Seven Decades

By FRANK RIZZO

Monday, November 26, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Mon Nov 26, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Writer-director Peter Brook brings his latest play to Brooklyn --- After more than 70 years in the theatre, writer-director Peter Brook continues to create new productions that challenge and mystify. His latest is The Prisoner, which is making its New York debut at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn. Co-written and co-directed by Brook's longtime...

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Wait, Didn't We Just Watch That Scene?

By ELIZA BENT

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Wed Oct 10, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Inside David Greenspan's new time- and reality-bending play --- The spark for The Things That Were There was ignited the night David Greenspan agreed to auction off his talents. The five-time Obie winner -- who's as lauded for his performing as his playwriting -- was participating in New Dramatists' signature fundraiser Nocturnal Commissions,...

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5 Theatres You Need to Know: Companies in Northwestern Queens

By JOSE SOLÍS

Tuesday, October 02, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Tue Oct 2, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Our series continues with a roundup of theatres in Long Island City, Astoria and Corona --- Last month, we spotlighted Asian-American theatres in NYC. For our second installment of 5 Theatres You Need to Know, we're looking at companies based in northwestern Queens. If you usually think of the borough for baseball and dim sum, let us expand your perspective....

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How Do You Dramatize the Downfall of an Autocrat?

By GERARD RAYMOND

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

Wed Sep 12, 2018 • Borough Play • 0 comments Share This

In The Emperor, Haile Selassie's servants tell his story, and they're all played by Kathryn Hunter --- The audience never sees His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie in The Emperor, Colin Teevan's stage adaptation of Ryszard Kapuscinski's eponymous book. But you get a vivid picture of the 20th-century Ethiopian autocrat and his court through memories...

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