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Helen Shaw

@helenshaw.bsky.social

Theater critic at the New York Times. Tell me if you’ve seen something good!

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Helen Shaw@helenshaw.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚨killer show alert: “Tom at the Farm” at NYU Skirball. I saw it last year, and it was transfixing…a brilliant Brazilian transposition of Bouchard’s novel about repression and destructive desire. It’s intoxicatingly, debilitatingly physical and very, very dark. Only Oct 8, 9, 10; I wouldn’t miss it.🚨

One man dashes another with water
Helen Shaw@helenshaw.bsky.social · 2w ago

1 more night for the delightfully unhinged “With Everything Going On Right Now” at Under St. Marks… it’s a deadly serious musical about issues including Politics, Race and dating West Village Guys; trust these artists, they’ve done Research (🎶research! research!🎶) tickets.frigid.nyc/event/6897:1...

With Everything Going On Right Now

PROJECT PROJECT has spent the past two months interviewing people about everything that’s going on right now. We’ve asked people from all over New York questions about how th

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Helen Shaw@helenshaw.bsky.social · 2w ago

The transfixing performer Tiresias is at Joe’s Pub on Thursday with “cryptochrome,” a sung odyssey through various animal senses: a butterfly can see in ultraviolet, a hawk can feel the earth’s magnetic field. It blew my mind in 2023; this is a thrilling chance to experience it again

A head covered in butterflies to the point that there’s confusion about whether the head itself is human
Helen Shaw@helenshaw.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨GREAT SHOW: the shaggy-dog noir (dressed as a lecture) “Michael Haggerty’s Where Were You” by Dan Hasse, which “stages” a “lost” doc about 9/11. Is it true? 🤷‍♂️ Hasse shares a Nathan Fieldery, double-strength irony w William Sydney; an exciting new theatrical school is clearly here (til Wed at JACK)

A poster that consists of a pencil sketch of a white man with glasses with information about Michael Haggerty’s Where Were You
Helen Shaw@helenshaw.bsky.social · last mo.

Absolutely delighted by Isaiah Stavchansky’s “Constantinople; or the Hair Plug Play” at JACK…precise, surprising, capacious stuff. Also a killlller cast. Only one more show with tickets left; man, I really hope this comes back www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Constantinople; or, The Hair Plug Play

Three friends go on a pilgrimage to Istanbul to get hair transplants. What begins as a weekend of pokes and jests soon gives way to old wounds, buried…

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EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The people who commented that most of LA isn’t like this, and that I, an ignorant British / East Coaster, know nothing about the city, are quite right. I will only add that Homer almost certainly knew nothing first hand about Ithaca. It was all hearsay and tropes.

Laura Lippman@lauralippman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good morning, Bluesky. “What I do know is that people have always made and will always make art. Part of possessing a consciousness is wanting to be known while also living with the fundamental mysteriousness of human beings, including ourselves.” The Perfect Moment, Isaac Butler

The Domino Sugar plant shrouded in smoke; a dog saying “This is fine” has been super-imposed on the photo.
Helen Shaw@helenshaw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Philip Hartman's black-and-white "No Picnic" is at Film Forum til July 9: it's a punk As You Like It set in the sweltering streets and basement bars of the 1986 East Village. What if Jaques serviced jukeboxes and fell for Phoebe? Peter Hutton shoots NYC like it's Rome after the War. Gorgeous

Helen Shaw@helenshaw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Clubbed Thumb people just added a Fri matinee for Derangements, which is the first show to reduce me to helpless gasping laughter this year. When I say playwright Nadja Leonhard-Hooper has EXACTLY matched Danny Wolohan’s freak, I know some of you understand what’s at stake. Get on the waitlist

Michael Schulman@michaelschulman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This week in Talk of the Town: Shakespeare in the Park kicks off with "Romeo and Juliet," but with a twist—each performance ends with a real-life wedding onstage. I was there for the first one. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Happy Ending Romeo and Juliet Didn’t Get

This year’s Shakespeare in the Park production puts the star-crossed lovers on the U.S.-Mexico border. And there’s another twist—each performance ends with a real-life wedding.

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Helen Shaw@helenshaw.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Jordan Baum’s excellent, trippy, anthology-style “21st Century Princess” is @ Collapsable Hole, and it’s delish. A Wellmanian romp taking the secret Mickey out of the happiest place on earth, it’s a series of vignettes of small world orderliness, erotic connection and line-standing psychosis…(cont)