Go See a Show! Robert A. K. Gonyo
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The “Go See a Show!” podcast is the only podcast dedicated to the independent, off-off-Broadway theatre scene in New York City. Episodes feature interviews with artists making theatre in NYC, discussing the ideas and process behind their work.
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Melissa Ingle, Emily Conlon, and Sevrin Willinder of “Shakespeare Translate: The Complete Works”
Listen in as performers Sevrin Willinder and Emily Conlon and director Melissa Ingle, of Shakespeare Translate: The Complete Works, discuss translation order, opening up and exploring the box, post-COVID theatre, playing with the audience, the show’s resident ShakesPEER expert, connecting, and why liveness is so integral to being human.
“…it’s such a funny idea…but it proves the fallacy of technology, how it’s letting us down in some ways. But we still get to bring it into the room, and engage with it, and have fun with the miscommunications, which is very Shakespearean…”
Devon Loves ME! and the Down to Clown Festival present
Shakespeare Translate: The Complete Works
written by William Shakespeare
translated by Google Translate
directed by Melissa Ingle
thru June 1, 2024
The Vino
274 Morgan Ave., Suite 201
Brooklyn
tickets: $15, available via the Sour Grapes website
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Coral Cohen, Cosette Pin, Sam Hood Adrian, & James Clements of “Third Law”
Listen in as members of the team that devised What Will the Neighbors Say?‘s Third Law—director Coral Cohen, designer Cosette Pin, and performers Sam Hood Adrian and James Clements—discuss their devising process, exploring audience agency, Kandinsky, testing your show with live participants, taking risks, and where theatre meets gaming.
“…it’s unlike any game that you have played. You are controlling physical bodies all around you, like real life VR…like reality, but you’re making a play right in front of you.”
What Will the Neighbors Say? presents
Third Law
devised by the ensemble & designers
directed by Coral Cohen
thru May 26, 2024
Culture Lab LIC
5-25 46th Avenue
Long Island City, Queens
tickets: from $28.52, available via EventBrite
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Luis Feliciano, Kristen Hoffman, Penelope Deen, & Padraig Bond of “The Climate Fables: Debating Extinction & The Trash Garden”
Listen in as Luis Feliciano, Kristen Hoffman, Penelope Deen, & Padraig Bond of Torch Ensemble’s The Climate Fables: Debating Extinction & The Trash Garden, winner of “Best Play” in the New York City Fringe, discuss playing with trash, constant improvisation, clowning, casting the audience, ouija boards, bringing play to tragedy, and making a connection.
“…for me as an actor, I really feel like this play is so much about, ‘what do you do when the world is ending?’ You just play some games with your friends, and hope you stay ok…”
Torch Ensemble presents
The Climate Fables: Debating Extinction & The Trash Garden
written by Padraig Bond
directed by Padraig Bond & Torch Ensemble
April 3–17, 2024
UNDER St. Mark’s Theater
94A St. Mark’s Place
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Madelyn Chapman, Jesse Castellanos, Michelle Feza Kuchuk, Fernando Mateo, Jr., Haneen Arafat Murphy, Maria Peyramaure, & Yasmin Ranz-Lind of “Lost Sock Laundry”
Listen in as the director of Lost Sock Laundry, Madelyn Chapman, along with the full cast—Jesse Castellanos, Michelle Feza Kuchuk, Fernando Mateo, Jr., Haneen Arafat Murphy, Maria Peyramaure, & Yasmin Ranz-Lind—discuss variations on the immigrant experience, finding the political in the quotidian, theatre in/of/for the community, laundry jokes, cast bonding, actual lost socks, and the freedom to play.
“…it’s a very human play. It’s looking at the day-to-day life of folks who are struggling with different aspects of the immigrant experience…The sort of ordinary heroism that is in the play…people just do that in life, and it’s not sung very much, the ways that people stand up for each other.”
UP Theater Company presents
Lost Sock Laundry
written by Ivan Faute
directed by Madelyn Chapman
thru April 27, 2024
Fort Washington Collegiate Church
729 West 181st Street
Manhattan
tickets: $15–25, available via EventCombo
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Dorothea Gloria, Joe Staton, Natasha Jain, Francesca Bolam, Kevin Rios, Jandel Camilo, Mila Besson, Nicholas Bompart, and Pablo Gatto of The Immigrant Short Play Festival
Listen in as Dorothea Gloria, Joe Staton, Natasha Jain, Francesca Bolam, Kevin Rios, Jandel Camilo, Mila Besson, Nicholas Bompart, and Pablo Gatto of RiffRaff NYC‘s Immigrants in New York short play festival discuss mother-daughter relationships, unpacking baggage, why clowns, the superpowers bestowed by costumes, personifying statues, and wearing masks over masks.
“…I wanted to show their lives, their dreams, their feelings…for me, it was important to show these professions, also…sometimes we take for granted, there are people who do it for passion, and some of them, they do it because they need to bring in money…”
RiffRaff NYC presents
Immigrants In New York,
a showcase of 5 short plays
Dream Card
written by Francesca Bolam
directed by Joseph Fusco
Funland
written by Russell Legaspi
directed by Guelan Luarka
Lady Liberty
written & directed by Nicholas Bompart
Pizza From Nowhere
written & directed by Cara Ronzetti
Raw
written by Kevin Rios
directed by Mila Besson
March 8–10, 2024
Court Square Theater
44-02 23rd Street
Long Island City
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Nancy Ma, Kim Wuan, David Lee Huynh, & Vin Kridakorn of “Warrior Sisters of Wu”
Listen in as Warrior Sisters of Wu performers Nancy Ma, Kim Wuan, David Lee Huynh, & Vin Kridakorn discuss navigating and connecting times and traditions, how conflicts can grow relationships and solve problems, respect and love for the audience, the changing moment when you discover your character’s love for another, fighting as conversation, grounding your role in the personal, and the permission to be anything and everything.
“…a great deal of love should be able to hold conflict…”
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre presents
Warrior Sisters of Wu
written by Damon Chua
directed by Jeff Liu
fight choreography by Michael G. Chin
thru March 10, 2024
A.R.T./New York
502 W 53rd Street
Manhattan
tickets: $65 regular, $50 senior, $30 student, available via OvationTix
photos by Russ Rowland
Customer Reviews
So Excited
I’m working in NY for a month and a half this summer and I really hope a few episodes of Go See a Show drop while I’m there. I study theater, and would love to support some independent theatre while I’m there!
Agar
Great podcast, great listening all around
#supportindietheater
Really appreciate this podcast and Robert’s focus on supporting the off off Broadway community. I’m slightly biased, but I think some of the best work in NYC comes from OOB theater and it is refreshing that Robert and Go See a Show are highlighting these inventive artists and collaborators.