Select Writings
2019
- Thomas Ostermeier’s History of Violence (Culturebot, November 2019)
- Interview with Toshiki Okada, included in The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader (released July 2019)
- “Everybody Hates a Tourist,” on Romeo Castellucci’s Democracy in America (Culturebot, May 2019)
- “The Children Will Show How It’s Done,” on Milo Rau’s Five Easy Pieces (Culturebot, March 2019)
2018
- “Crocodile Tears: The Problem of Empathy in Art,” essay (Culturebot, July 2018)
2017
- “On How Not to Adapt a Complicated Book,” on Ivo Van Hove’s The Fountainhead (Culturebot, November 2017)
- “The ‘Violent Ambiguity’ of Roberto Bolano” (Culturebot, September 2017)
2016
- “Studies in Chekhov: Revealing Process With WaxFactory’s PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!” Brooklyn Rail, May 2016
- Archiving Performance: Deeply Fascinating @ Fusebox 2016, for the Fusebox Festival @Storify
- “5 Novellas, 5 Hours, 5 Years: The Goodman’s ‘2666’ Adds Up,” American Theatre, Feb. 2016
- “A Performance-Installation for the Antropocene Era,” Culturebot, Jan. 21, 2016
- “Under the Radar 2016: 600 Highwaymen’s Employee of the Year,” Culturebot, Jan. 14, 2016
2015
- “Identity as Action in Daniel Fish’s Who Left the Fork Here?” Culturebot, December 12, 2015
- Context Notes for New York Live Arts’ presentation of Pavel Zustiak’s Custodians of Beauty, November 2015
- “Stepping Out From the Chorus,” Culturebot, November 21, 2015
- “Mass Live Arts: Made in the Berkshires,” Culturebot, July 7, 2015
- “Photography as a Multiplier of Atrocity,” Culturebot, May 7, 2015
- “Danse and Non-Danse,” Theater, Iss. 45:1
- “My Barbarian: Between the Black Box and the White Cube,” Culturebot, Jan. 15, 2015
- “I Feel Like I’m Always Talking About Rape,” Culturebot, Jan. 7, 2015
- “Andrew Schneider on youarenowhere at COIL 2015,” Culturebot, Jan. 5, 2015
2014
- Essay on Suzanne Bocanegra, Big Dance Theater, and Sibyl Kempson’s Ich Kurbisgeist, Chance 4, winter 2015
- “Mimi Lien Creates Art With Her Sets,” American Theatre, Oct. 2014
- “Talking With the Creators of Ubu Sings Ubu,” Culturebot, April 17, 2014
- “Richard Maxwell Discusses Isolde,” Culturebot, April 10, 2014
- Profile of Kenneth Collins/Temporary Distortion, Chance 3, spring 2014
- “Appropriation and Representation, With Reference to the Wooster Group,” DeeplyFascinating, Mar. 14, 2014
- “Mallory Catlett’s This Was the End at the Chocolate Factory,” Mar. 3, 2014
- “Using Theater and Media to Stage the Impossible,” Hyperallergic, Jan. 14, 2014
- “Dystopian Cigar Factories on Rocks Hurtling Through Space,” Culturebot, Jan. 7, 2014
- “A Seemingly Perverse Dynamic: Transgressive Art and Contemporary Performance,” commissioned by American Realness Festival, Jan. 2014
2013
- “Understanding the Affordable Care Act,” American Theatre, Nov. 2013
- “Kyle deCamp on Urban Renewal, Part of Crossing the Line 2013,” Culturebot, Oct. 10, 2013
- “On Denying the Surplus Value of Art(?),” Culturebot, Oct. 3, 2011
- “At the Intersection of Social Practice and Interdisciplinary Art,” Culturebot, Sept. 19, 2013
- “A Return to Performance,” Culturebot, Feb. 10, 2013
- “Eric Dyer on Radiohole’s Scenographic Approach,” Culturebot, Jan. 3, 2013
2012
- “The Wisdom of Crowds,” “Strategies” column, American Theatre, Oct. 2012
- “Don’t Confuse Reviews With True Criticism,” New York Times, Oct. 7, 2012
- “Contemporary Dance is Not Stripping,” Culturebot, Aug. 24, 2012
- “Thoughts on Why We Must Talk About Art and Class,” Culturebot, July 9, 2012
- “What Marina Abramovic’s Institute Tells Us About How the Art World Contextualizes Performance,” Culturebot, May 14, 2012
- “Can Un-Licensed Therapy Be Performance Art? Can Prostitution?” Culturebot, May 9, 2012
- “Post-Dramatic Stress Disorder,” Culturebot, Mar. 14, 2012
- “Mircea Cantor, Marten Spangberg, Bad Critics, Books & Thoughts,” Culturebot, Mar. 6, 2012
- “A Poorly Edited Salmagundi of Half-Baked Thoughts,” Culturebot, Mar. 2, 2012
2011
- “Democracy, Art & Critics, or, What Happens to Important Stuff if There’s No One to Call it Important?” Culturebot, Nov. 22, 2011
- “Why Aren’t Audiences Stupid?” Culturebot, Nov. 15, 2011
- “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Hamlet?” Culturebot, Nov. 11, 2011
- “The Controversy Over Mike Daisey’s The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,” Culturebot, Oct. 20, 2011