Miriam Felton-Dansky
Village Voice
Contact Miriam
Discover and connect with journalists and influencers around the world, save time on email research, monitor the news, and more.
| Recent: |
|
| Past: |
|
Past articles by Miriam:
“Hunter John and Jane” Boasts Frights, Imagination, and, Uh, Squirrel Guts
If you’re not already fascinated by Amina Henry’s Hunter John and Jane — a love story with scary undertones — you’ll probably start paying close... → Read More
Colonial History and Family Melodrama Merge in “The House That Will Not Stand”
There’s a corpse onstage for the entirety of Marcus Gardley’s The House That Will Not Stand: an old white guy, suited up and laid out... → Read More
Wallace Shawn’s Barbed “Marie and Bruce” Portrays a Marriage on the Rocks
“Really” is probably the most oft-repeated word in Wallace Shawn’s Marie and Bruce. Characters say it constantly, punctuating assertions and expressions with the dubious intensifier.... → Read More
Eliza Bent’s “Aloha, Aloha” Is a Funny, Cringe-Inducing Look at Cultural Appropriation
“Do I keep sinning in order to keep making art?” the playwright Eliza Bent asks, at the end of her new solo piece, Aloha, Aloha, or... → Read More
This Year’s Under the Radar Festival Posed Tough Questions About Relationships
Under the Radar, the Public Theater’s annual festival of new work, turned the ripe old age of fourteen this year. If the name has become... → Read More
The Year in Theater: Amid Escalating Reports of Gendered Violence, New York Artists Answered the Bell
This afternoon, the Public Theater will hold a town hall meeting about sexual harassment and misconduct in the arts and entertainment industries. Invitations were issued... → Read More
Big Dance Theater’s Era-Toggling “17c” Tackles Samuel Pepys and Gender Imbalance
Power and misogyny have been in cahoots for a long time — since way before #metoo, way before Harvey Weinstein. In fact, as Annie-B Parson... → Read More
Heather Christian’s “Animal Wisdom” Makes for a Fitfully Enjoyable Apparition
There’s going to be a really long blackout, Heather Christian warns us, sometime during her show. If you’re afraid of the dark, find an usher... → Read More
Michael Yates Crowley’s “Sabine Women” Confronts Rape Culture With Daring Humor
The history of Western culture is also a history of rape. This is the thesis of Michael Yates Crowley’s pointed satire on American rape culture,... → Read More
This Fall, Rent-Challenged Downtown Theaters Are Battling to Stay in Place
There’s nothing more New York than bemoaning the end of an era: the institution as it once was, the neighborhood before it became gentrified. But... → Read More
Emily Johnson Previews Her All-Night Participatory Project on Randalls Island
It’s a transitional moment for venerable downtown institution P.S.122. This year, the organization looks toward its future with a new artistic director, Jenny Schlenzka, who... → Read More
The Corkscrew Festival Enters the Fray of a Fringe-Less World
Most summers, August is Fringe time: those steamy weeks when the FringeNYC festival takes Manhattan, occupying nearly twenty theaters with a couple hundred–odd shows. A... → Read More
Humor’s Hard Truths
Underground Railroad Game casts contemporary American racial politics into stark relief → Read More
A 24-Hour Party People’s History Of The U.S.
Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music reveals secret truths behind American standards → Read More
"Samara" Explores Final Frontiers Through Western Iconography and Greek Tragedy
Richard Maxwell observes in his new play, Samara, the truly mysterious territory, for everyone, is death, the real point of no return. → Read More
Minor Theater's Julia Jarcho on Fear, Gogol, and How to Make Theater Scary
Playwright and director Julia Jarcho's The Terrifying — directed by the author and playing at Abrons Arts Center through April 2 — marks the debut production of her company, Minor Theater. The company brings together actors and designers who have collaborated on Jarcho's past productions, like Ben Williams and Jenny... → Read More
In "Villa," Guillermo Calderón Asks Whether Brutality Is Worth Remembering
In the fictional events of the play, three young women (Crystal Finn, Vivia Font, and Harmony Stempel) form a special committee deputized to plan Villa... → Read More
LCT3’s Tale of Love, Education, and Suffrage Is Insufficiently Radical
'Bull in a China Shop' is based on the decades-long correspondence between Mary Woolley and Jeanette Marks, early feminists, lesbians, and educational... → Read More
'The Town Hall Affair' Brings an Infamous Feminist Debate to Life
It was the social event of 1971, according to Village Voice columnist Jill Johnston: an infamous gathering at midtown's Town Hall to debate women's liberation. Feminist writers and provocateurs like Germaine Greer, Diana Trilling, and Johnston herself confronted the event's moderator, Norman Mailer, whose notorious Harper's article "The Prisoner of... → Read More
Ma-Yi Theater Electrifies Ibsen and Updates the Unwieldy 'Peer Gynt'
Long before Henrik Ibsen revolutionized dramatic form with living-room dramas like A Doll's House, he wrote vast, rambling epics, of which the deliberately strange Peer Gynt is perhaps the most famous — and hardest to stage. It spans a lifetime, traverses continents, and includes encounters with several incarnations of Death... → Read More