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Interview: Broken Box Mime Theater Artistic Director Becky Baumwoll Talks About This Week's Pop-Up Shows "Asks Why" and "Frankenstein"

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Image from Broken Box Mime Theater Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) is a New York City-based collaborative theater company that performs original, contemporary short plays entirely through movement. Founded in 2011 and winners of New York Innovative Theatre Awards for Outstanding Movement/Choreography, Performance Art, and Ensemble, BKBX reimagines French pantomime through the lens of contemporary U.S. American theater. This week, Broken Box Mime will present special pop-up performances of BKBXKids! Asks Why running in rep with A BKBX Frankenstein . Performances will take place at the Theatre at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street) from November 17-20, and tickets are available for advance purchase at www.brokenboxmime.com (with free admission to BKBXKids! Asks Why for anyone under 5 years old). BKBXKids! is a division of Broken Box Mime Theater that aims to inspire unplugged creativity and shared imaginative experiences in children and families by way of joyful, movement-based...

Review: "Take Shape" Is Mime-umentally Entertaining

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Take Shape Created and performed by Nick Abeel, Becky Baumwoll, Ismael Castillo, Julia Cavagna, Géraldine Dulex, Blake Habermann, David Jenkins, Marissa Molnar, Kristin McCarthy Parker, Tasha Milkman, Regan Sims, Jae Woo, with collaboration from Josh Wynter Presented by Broken Box Mime Theater at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at A.R.T./New York Theatres 502 West 53rd St. Manhattan, NYC April 1-May 1, 2022 BKBX Take Shape featuring David Jenkins, Jae Woo, Marissa Molnar, Tasha Milkman. Photo by Bjorn Bolinder Need a break from theater that's all about words, words, words? If so, Broken Box Mime Theater (BKBX) has the non-verbal answer with its new show, Take Shape . If not, see it anyway–it's pretty terrific. Take Shape comprises segments varying in subject and length and ranging in mood from from cheeky to energizing to meditative, all of which coalesce into a beguiling whole. The production will include affinity nights for groups including "neurodiverse communiti...