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Last week, at a time when Broadway producers were worried about last-minute campaigning and how performers are going to change at the United Palace with limited dressing room space, a fact buried in a New York Times article shook the theater community. It was there that it was announced that The Public’s Under the Radar festival was no more.
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.
Patrons become performers in 'A Thousand Ways,' with structured phone calls and meetings that form three-part work
"A Thousand Ways," by experimental theater troupe 600 Highwaymen, features three parts that require audience participation. In part one, audience members will dial in from wherever they are at a
New York Theater Returns in ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ and Starring You in ‘A Thousand Ways: Part Two’ Tim Teeman At one time, New York City’s Meatpacking District was all the things our Seven Deadly Sins guide excitedly told us it was: industrial, edgy, sexually transgressive, with the indisputably brilliant Florent feeding every demographic that passed its portal. Oddly, the façade of Florent is one of the few visible ghosts of those times in the cleaned-up, moneyed, boozy foody streets of now, and even more oddly our guide couldn’t have been close to being born when ...