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MAKE THEATRE POETIC AGAIN: In Jerry Lieblich’s The Barbarians, wordplay gets political
In The Barbarians playwright Jerry Lieblich dismantles language, then reassembles it, planting tripwires between the syllables.

The Iceman Melteth: In Théâtre l’Entrouvert’s ANYWHERE, Oedipus is a marionette made of ice
Time and water are slippery things—you can’t hold on to either for long, and when you run out you die. Artists often draw on water as a wellspring for metaphor (Paul Simon said “time is an ocean,” to which Bob Dylan agreed “and it ends at the shore”), but ANYWHERE, Théâtre l’Entrouvert’s stirring puppet-show, makes time tangible by melting it.

Night at the Museum: Jordan Harrison’s beautifully messy post-human world
Playwrights Horizon stages The Antiquities by Jordan Harrison.