The Brooklyn Rail

In Conversation

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CHLOË BASS, JACKIE SIBBLIES DRURY, SARAH ROSE LEONARD, and ALLISON LYMAN with Frank Hentschker

For many makers and lovers of downtown, experimental performance, The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center’s (M.E.S.T.C.) annual PRELUDE Festival is the unofficial kick-off event of the fall season.

Whiskey, Thelonious Monk, and Other Spirits
Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet Comes to The Bushwick Starr

By Susan Soon He Stanton

Dave Malloy, the award-winning composer and performer behind Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, a musical adaptation from a slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, spoke with me via Skype from his living room in Park Slope.

In Dialogue

“Holding you up while you are holding up me”: The give and take of working for free

By Erin Courtney

Grand Concourse, Heidi Schreck’s most recent play, will have its world premiere this month at Playwright’s Horizons. Schreck takes on the social dynamic of workers, volunteers, and the homeless clients of a soup kitchen.