Thinking Theater NYC

A Venomous Color: Burbank Written by Cameron Darwin Bossert Directed by Thirdwing Presented by Thirdwing at the wild project 195 E. 3rd Street, Manhattan, NYC September 6-18, 2022 L to R: Kelley Lord, Ryan Blackwell, and Cameron Darwin Bossert. Photo by Valerie Terranova Burbank , making its world premiere at the wild project, marks the fourth onstage production from Thirdwing, founded by Artistic Director and Burbank playwright Cameron Darwin Bossert. As a hybrid streaming theater company, Thirdwing creates both streaming and in-person offerings, and Burbank , revised and expanded from an earlier streaming version, is the second full-length in-person play in the series A Venomous Color , which focuses on Walt Disney Studios from 1935 through 1941. The first onstage show in A Venomous Color was the outstanding The Fairest , adapted for streaming as Disney Girls , which examined Disney's "Nunnery," a department made up exclusively of women painters and inkers, as they ...

And What Happens if I Don't Written by Iva Brdar Translated by Ana Brdar Presented by The Cherry Artists' Collective at The Cherry Artspace 102 Cherry St., Ithaca, NY December 3-12, 2021 Clockwise from farthest left: Adar aAlston, RJ Lavine, Elizabeth Mozer, Elizah Knight, Amoreena Wade, and Barbara Geary Cherry Arts' production of And What Happens if I Don't marks not only the world premiere of the play itself but also the premiere of the theater company's Hybrid Show System, which provides live streaming in addition to in-person seating (as non-driving NYC-folk, we attended via the former option). The play, by Berlin-based Serbian playwright Iva Brdar and winner of the 2021 Eurodram English-language Award, uses maternal advice as a series of windows onto life as a woman, vignettes that are at once fascinatingly particular in their details and widely relatable in their broader contours. Barbara Geary, Elizah Knight, RJ Lavine, and Naandi Jamison Staged in the rou...