3Views sent three critics — composer Timothy Huang; Artistic Director of Braata Productions, Karl Williams; and dramaturg Emily Chackerian — to see the Broadway production of Pirates! The Penzance Musical, presented by Roundabout Theatre Company. The musical is a reimagining of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s 1879 comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance.
Three writers discuss D.A. Mindell's play and its complex exploration of gender, disability, and speculative science.
3Views sent us–May, Maia, and Maddie–to Sanaz Toossi’s English. The following represents excerpts from our conversation on the power this play holds for us.
Searching for a good time at Under the Radar
In 2025, Under the Radar Festival guarantees the same experimental techniques with new heartfelt stories.
Under the Radar’s Blind Runner, The Horse of Jenin, and A Knock on the Roof powerfully illustrate the ways oppression structures people’s lives.
Christine Mok: In The Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot is an ensemble play that focuses on seven queer women of color and their experiences in a future where oceans have risen and taken back the coasts. America is in ruins. Amazon has become ‘The Corporation.’ It seems to be the only infrastructure giving shape to life in the unfolding human-made ecological disaster.
The playwrights Amalia Oliva Rojas, Robert Schenkkan, and Lauren Yee saw WP Productions’ Dirty Laundry together.
On the first Saturday night of August, Vic & Lexie & Andrea went to see the new play KARA & EMMA & BARBARA & MIRANDA by Ariel Stess and directed by Meghan Finn, presented by The Tank in collaboration with New Georges.
