Thank you everyone who’s yes-and’d Slanted Floors: sweet boy Sam, Ryan who named queer domesticity, Adam and Kyle for combing through each step and word, every darn name in the program, and you, the people who saw it. This is a play about gaps, which can be quite big in a 600-square-foot apartment. The audience was there, maybe, to bridge them, witnessing many ideas and then just one. Listening is active—as Kyle said, the most generous thing we can do—and this show demanded a form less-exercised. In that way, it was an experiment. Thank you all for coming to the lab.
@billymcentee and I are back in our site-specific new play game.
Staged for an audience of only five in a Brooklyn apartment, SLANTED FLOORS stars @adamchanlerberat and @kyperbole as a couple navigating the surreality of queer domesticity, artistic conversation, and how we dance around life. Tickets include a dinner eaten during the show.
September 9 - October 10 only; link in bio.
Next up in our Curtain Call series: freelance arts journalist, Billy McEntee (@billymcentee ).
McEntee is the Theater Editor at the Brooklyn Rail where he publishes mini plays and contributes essays about unique shows. McEntee has also taught journalism with The School of The New York Times and Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.
Listen to McEntee reflect on theatre criticism and how diverse voices shape critical landscapes at our #linkinbio. You can also explore interviews with other critics whose work provides the language for us to understand the role of theatre and performance in our broader culture.
#criticalminded #theatrereview #queerwriters #curtaincall
A special night honoring special titles that hold too many names to thank. Many hearts, heads, and hands touched this show, but re hands, thanks Zamin, Adam, and Pua for making cookies! Wish I had pics. This isn’t a show built to court awards, BUT my immodest truth is this is my fave category: it’s a win for people creating wherever they can. In making the ephemeral, something permanent sticks. Thank you — family, friends, strangers — for sitting in the circle.
I feel really lucky to be theater editor @brooklynrail where I commission journalists, publish miniplays through Rail Shorts, and write monthly essays about off~the~beaten~path shows. arts journalism is a-changin’, and to have a place where I can document and celebrate the extraordinary theater that doesn’t always get covered, and write about its intention and vibes and importance, is really meaningful to me 🥹
dumping some fave articles over my ten (!) years of writing in nyc. I love each of these pieces + thank you to @americantheatremag for publishing the first one, which many people had strong feelings about and was the magazine’s most-read in 2024. I (re)learned that saying angry things is easier online than in interviews and seeing the face of a disliked person can fan that dislike. I also learned I like gray areas and listening and that media literacy is very important ❤️
