The fourth annual edition of the New York Theater Review continues our exploration of the finest in contemporary NYC alt-theater blended with an ongoing investigation of its colorful and often underrepresented past. Justin Tracy leads off the 2009 edition with an appreciation of playwright, teacher and critic Arthur Sainer; Cynthia Croot sits down with six Arab and Arab-American theater artists to discuss similarities and differences in Middle Eastern and NYC theater and Lane Pianta contributes an insightful piece on the theater of Ben Spatz and his Urban Research Theater. In plays, NYTR branches out this year with the inclusion of twelve short plays from Manhattan's Blue Box Productions' Sticky series plus Ellen McLaughlin's Kissing the Floor, a disturbing Depression-era riff on Sophocles' Antigone that explores the lengths and limits of family blood ties and David Ian Lee's Sleeper, a continent-hopping, time-shifting dissection of America's troubled post-9/11 legacy.

New York Theater Review 2009

Literature & Fiction

Cynthia Croot

David Ian Lee

Ellen McLaughlin

Lane Pianta

Ben Spatz

Sticky Playwrights

Justin Tracy

Contemporary

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The third edition of the New York Theater Review continues its celebration of downtown New York theater. Drawing from among the best and the brightest in contemporary NYC alt-theater, NYTR's 2008 edition includes three new plays, three original commissioned essays, an extended roundtable chat with six leading NYC theater and performance bloggers, and a sit-down give-and-take with that singular sonic performance onslaught also known as Reggie Watts. In plays, Taylor Mac's funny, deeply personal and visually stunning The Young Ladies Of seeks out the macho, Texas farm-boy father he never really knew; 2008 P73 Playwriting Fellow Tommy Smith's explosively visceral White Hot rips the calm exterior off a bourgeois couple's seemingly placid existence to expose the despairing core festering beneath; six Asian-Americans from widely different backgrounds share their stories of immigration, migration and cultural identity in Ping Chong & Sara Michelle Zatz' Undesirable Elements. In essays specifically commissioned for the 2008 edition, Victoria Linchong of NYC's Direct Arts, Zachary R. Mannheimer of Brooklyn's Subjective Theatre Co., and Marya Sea Kaminski of Seattle's Washington Ensemble Theatre contribute fresh takes on the NYC alt-theater of today, and a look back fifty years to where it all began.

New York Theater Review 2008

Taylor, Mac

Tommy Smith

Victoria Linchong

Marya Sea Kaminski

Zachary R. Mannheimer

Ping Chong

Sara Michelle Zatz

An anthology of alternative New York theater, 2005. Included are the complete texts of new full-length plays by Sheila Callaghan ("Dead City"), August Schulenburg ("Riding the Bull") and Ken Urban ("The Female Terrorist Project").

New York Theater Review

Stowe, Brook

Dramas & Plays

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