Blake Plante is a Thomas J. Watson Fellow studying mime around the world. When he's not seeing or practising theatre or dance, he likes to go to museums and research the way movement is created in stillness.
Chimpanzee is a technically impressive and politically important show. Three puppeteers control a chimpanzee and environment upon a small stage. She ...
Where many acrobatics shows can be described as breathtaking, ANIMA can be described as breath-controlling. Inspired by their research and experience ...
The greatest kind of theatre doesn’t call for a reviewer, it calls for a worshipper. BOYS by ThePappyShow is worthy of fervor because it courses with ...
“Life is like a succession of births.” Tria Fata tells the story of a woman visited by “Mrs. Death.” Not yet ready to go, she hands Mrs. Death one of ...
The Water Babies is full of wonderment and interest in nature, but lacks urgency and feels dry and unbalanced, dipping too heavily into melancholy tha...
Magic Goes Wrong is a joyfully dark show that mixes magic and clowning to deliver one failed act after another. The characters are great fun, and the ...
The show’s light, a dynamic piece hanging from the ceiling, addresses the audience, initiating us to the mime show’s premise. Thomas Monckton, creator...
“I want to go home but I don’t know where it is,” says a young, exasperated Princess Elizabeth played by Nina Cassells from almost pitch darkness. The...
Accessible and heart-felt, The Lost Thing is a beautiful adaptation of Shaun Tan’s picture book of the same title, by the disabled and non-disabled da...
