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Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me Black Star Reviews August 2025 Culture Vulture: the Wooster Group’s SYMPHONY OF RATS Symphony of Rats Another Eye Opens January 2025 From One Giant of Experimentation, A Love Letter Onstage Symphony of Rats The New York Times April 2024 Theater Review: Richard Foreman’s ‘Symphony of Rats’ Symphony of Rats Vulture April 2024 The Avant-Garde Is Back on the Launchpad Symphony of Rats The New Yorker April 2024 “Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me” Review Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me Black Star Reviews January 2024 All Of It: ‘Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me’ Adapts ‘Toasts’ for the Stage Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me WYNC Radio January 2024 Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me This Week in New York January 2024 A Toast to Reviving Lost Art: An Inside View with Eric Berryman and Eric Sluyter Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me 3Views January 2024 And I’d Like To Raise a Toast… Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me 3Views January 2024 An Actor Channeling the Folklore of His Ancestors Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me The New York Times January 2024 Review: In Wooster Group’s staging of Brecht’s ‘The Mother,’ techno postmodernism turns political The Mother Los Angeles Times February 2023 The Year in Performance Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me Artforum December 2022 Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me The New Yorker September 2022 The Best Theater of 2021 The Mother Vulture December 2021 Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother (a learning play) The Mother This Week in New York November 2021 ‘The Mother’ Just Wants What’s Best For You The Mother Vulture October 2021 Review: The Wooster Group teaches a lesson by Brecht The Mother Time Out New York October 2021 The Bel Air Battleground of “Daddy” The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation The New Yorker March 2019 Review Roundup: At St. Ann’s, The B-Side Gives Voice to Forgotten Men The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation Vulture March 2019 Review: Wooster Group turns Texas Inmates’ songs into the stirring theater of ‘The B-Side The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation Los Angeles Times February 2019 Conjuring the Ghosts of Theater Past in ‘A Pink Chair’ A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique) The New York Times May 2018 Tony Awards 2018: Who Will Win (and Who Should) The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation The New York Times May 2018 Opening the Curtain: Xeroxing Kantor’s mirror A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique) KCRW Radio April 2018 A Haunting Tribute to Tadeusz Kantor A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique) The New York Review of Books April 2018 Review: With ‘A Pink Chair,’ The Wooster Group conjures spirits from theater’s past A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique) Los Angeles Times April 2018 The enduring avant-gardism of The Wooster Group A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique) Financial Times March 2018 The Town Hall Affair review – fragmented feminism and a many-headed Norman Mailer The Town Hall Affair The Guardian January 2018 The Town Hall Affair The Town Hall Affair Time Out Sydney January 2018 My favorite things in 2017 theater in Washington, New York and beyond The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation The Washington Post December 2017 The Best Theater of 2017 The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation The New York Times December 2017 Review: ‘The B-Side: Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,’ A Record Album Interpretation The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation Columbia Oral History Master of Arts November 2017 The B-Side The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation The New Yorker November 2017 ‘The B-Side’ Is an Extraordinary Masterclass in Listening The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation The New York Times October 2017 Sometimes, a play with music can’t be improved upon – like The Wooster Group’s impeccable ‘The B-Side The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation The Washington Post October 2017 THE B-SIDE: ‘Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons’ The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation Time Out New York October 2017 Theater: Wooster Group Performs ‘The B-Side’ The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation The New York Times October 2017 ‘Women’s lib’ debate as circus, act of courage The Town Hall Affair San Francisco Chronicle April 2017 Dream the Myth Onward The Town Hall Affair BOMB Magazine February 2017 Itʼs Norman Mailer vs. the Feminists in ʻThe Town Hall Affairʼ The Town Hall Affair The New York Times February 2017 Theater review: Misogynists and lesbians battle at the Wooster Group’s Town Hall Affair The Town Hall Affair Time Out New York February 2017 ʻThe Town Hall Affairʼ Recreates a Feminist Firestorm The Town Hall Affair The New York Times February 2017 The Town Hall Affair The Town Hall Affair The New Yorker January 2017 New Drama The Room Harper's Magazine March 2016 What Was the Wooster Group Thinking With Pinter’s ‘The Room’? The Room American Theatre February 2016 Review: ‘The Room,’ a Pinter Play That Won’t Be Onstage for Long The Room The New York Times February 2016 Experimental Theater Meets Experimental Faith: The Wooster Group’s “Early Shaker Spirituals” Early Shaker Spirituals Religion Dispatches June 2014 Songs of Devotion, Songs of Rapture Early Shaker Spirituals The New York Times May 2014 Early Shaker Spirituals: A Record Album Interpretation Early Shaker Spirituals Time Out New York May 2014 Singing and Dancing Towards the Heavens: Interview with Kate Valk Early Shaker Spirituals New York Theatre Wire May 2014 A Resurrection of Eternal Joy Early Shaker Spirituals The New York Times May 2014 Having a Moment Early Shaker Spirituals The Paris Review May 2014 McDormand, Roche bring ‘Early Shaker Spirituals’ to life Early Shaker Spirituals The New York Post May 2014 Shaking It Up Early Shaker Spirituals The New Yorker May 2014 A Suicide Stalks Young Spalding Gray Rumstick Road (video reconstruction) The New York Times April 2014 The Wooster Group’s Rumstick Road Roars Back, Ephemeral But For All Time Rumstick Road (video reconstruction) The Village Voice April 2014 ‘Early Plays’ at REDCAT sets O’Neill’s vision afloat Early Plays Los Angeles Times February 2013 My Year in Theatre Early Plays The New Yorker December 2012 Olivia Jane Smith Interviews Scott Shepherd about The Wooster Group’s “Hamlet” Hamlet New York Theatre Review October 2012 Where memories stalk the streets Hamlet Financial Times October 2012 Hamlet – Review Hamlet The Guardian October 2012 Voice of America Early Plays The New Yorker February 2012 Early Plays – NYCP and Wooster Group at St Ann’s Early Plays Culturebot February 2012 The Stage Dive Weekend Roundup: Galileo and Early Plays Early Plays Vulture February 2012 A Triple Bill Offers Tastes of a Young and Sea-Salty Eugene O’Neill Early Plays The New York Times February 2012 Role Reversal: From Intern to Director Early Plays The New York Times February 2012 The Wooster Group’s Version of Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carré Vieux Carré DonShewey.com March 2011 Vieux Carré Gives Tennessee Williams No (French) Quarter Vieux Carré The Village Voice March 2011 French Quarter tale only half-good Vieux Carré The New York Post February 2011 The Wooster Group’s Vieux Carré at The Baryshnikov Arts Center Vieux Carré Andrew Andrew February 2011 The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric Vieux Carré The New York Times February 2011 Vieux Carré Vieux Carré Theatermania February 2011 Drama Revived by the Kindness of Strangeness Vieux Carré The New York Times February 2011 Fair and Square Vieux Carré Musical America February 2011 An Interview With the Wooster Group’s Ari Fliakos Vieux Carré Culturebot February 2011 Elizabeth LeCompte Vieux Carré Artforum February 2011 New Light, Long After His Sun Set Vieux Carré The New York Times February 2011 Kate Valk, The Wooster Group Vieux Carré Gothamist January 2011 Los Angeles Theater Review: VIEUX CARRÉ (The Wooster Group at REDCAT) Vieux Carré Stage and Cinema December 2010 Opening the Curtain: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Recently Closeted Gay Man Vieux Carré KCRW Radio December 2010 Vieux Carre Vieux Carré Variety December 2010 Theater review: ‘Vieux Carre’ at REDCAT Vieux Carré Los Angeles Times December 2010 Critic’s Notebook: Wooster Group revives Tennessee Williams’ ‘Vieux Carré’ Vieux Carré Los Angeles Times December 2010 Wooster Group Plans New York Premiere for ‘Vieux Carré’ Vieux Carré The New York Times November 2010 A Military Musical With a Twist North Atlantic The New York Times March 2010 Opinionist: North Atlantic North Atlantic Gothamist March 2010 North Atlantic North Atlantic Variety February 2010 Theater review: ‘North Atlantic’ at REDCAT North Atlantic Los Angeles Times February 2010 McDormand, Tierney sail ‘North Atlantic’ North Atlantic Variety January 2010 Cavalli’s La Didone at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn La Didone Opera Today April 2009 Aeneas and the Space Aliens La Didone The Wall Street Journal April 2009 Lost in Space With Dido and Aeneas La Didone The New York Times April 2009 17th century opera meets Planet of the Vampires La Didone Let's Talk off-Broadway March 2009 Review: Emperor Jones/Goodman Theatre The Emperor Jones Newcity Stage January 2009 Goodman Opens 2009 with Wooster Group’s Acclaimed THE EMPEROR JONES 1/7-1/11 The Emperor Jones Broadway World January 2009 Deconstructing Film Hamlet Hollyn-wood (Norman, that is) December 2008 Top 10 Theater Productions Hamlet TIME December 2007 Looks It Not Like the King? Well, More Like Burton Hamlet The New York Times November 2007 The Wooster Group’s Hamlet Hamlet Theatermania October 2007