New York Theater Review 2009
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The fourth annual edition of the New York Theater Review continues our exploration of the finest in contemporary NYC alt-theater blended with an ongoing investigation of its colorful and often underrepresented past.

Justin Tracy leads off the 2009 edition with an appreciation of playwright, teacher and critic Arthur Sainer; Cynthia Croot sits down with six Arab and Arab-American theater artists to discuss similarities and differences in Middle Eastern and NYC theater and Lane Pianta contributes an insightful piece on the theater of Ben Spatz and his Urban Research Theater.

In plays, NYTR branches out this year with the inclusion of twelve short plays from Manhattan's Blue Box Productions' "Sticky" series plus Ellen McLaughlin's Kissing the Floor, a disturbing Depression-era riff on Sophocles' Antigone that explores the lengths and limits of family blood ties and David Ian Lee's Sleeper, a continent-hopping, time-shifting dissection of America's troubled post-9/11 legacy.

The 2008 edition of the New York Theater Review continues its celebration of downtown NYC theater. In plays, Taylor Mac's funny, deeply personal and visually stunning The Young Ladies Of seeks out the macho, Texas farm boy father he never really knew; 2008 P73 Playwriting Fellow Tommy Smith's explosively visceral White Hot rips the calm exterior off a bourgeois couple's seemingly placid existence to expose the despairing core festering beneath; six Asian-Americans from widely different backgrounds share their stories of immigration, migration and cultural identity in Ping Chong & Sara Michelle Zatz' Undesirable Elements.

In essays commissioned for the 2008 edition, Victoria Linchong of NYC's Direct Arts, Zachary Mannheimer of Brooklyn's Subjective Theatre Co. and NYC ex-pat Marya Sea Kaminski contribute fresh takes on the NYC alt-theater of today, and a look back fifty years to where it all began.

This edition also includes an extended roundtable chat with six leading NYC theater and performance bloggers and a sit-down give-and-take with that singular sonic performance onslaught aka Reggie Watts.

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The 2007 edition of the New York Theater Review features essays from Playgoer's Garrett Eisler, Alan Lockwood, Brook Stowe and Caridad Svich, and the complete texts of new, full-length plays by Quiara Alegria Hudes, a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (introduced by P73's Liz Jones & Asher Richelli); Adam Szymkowicz' Food for Fish (introduced by fellow playwright Crystal Skillman) and Anne Washburn's I Have Loved Strangers (introduced by fellow playwright Jeffrey M. Jones). Plus a great big, juicy group interview with some of the top movers and shakers in contemporary alternative New York theater and a photo recap of last Fall's fundraiser at the Brick Theater that helped make this issue possible. Introduction by Superfluities' George Hunka. Cover design by Savage Candy.

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The New York Theater Review was launched in 2005 to help increase recognition of downtown New York theater artists and productions. Our debut release features new plays from Sheila Callaghan (the critically-acclaimed New Georges hit Dead City), August Schulenburg (Riding the Bull) and Ken Urban (The Female Terrorist Project ) plus essays and reviews ranging from Julian Beck's Living Theatre to SoHo's own legendary Wooster Group.

The debut edition of the New York Theater Review is available from Amazon and NYC's Drama Book Shop.