One of the neat quirks about humans is that, whatever the topical or sub-level differences, there's usually a bedrock ability to empathize with others. You may not be wealthy or attractive or well-heeled and popular, but you know what it feels like to be bred to be a certain thing, and to have the repercussions of that bite you in the ass. That's the basic reason Breaking String Theater's North American premiere of Russian playwright Olga Mukhina's Flying works: despite some (possibly) untranslatable Russian-ness, and its focus upon the drug-and-sex-fueled exploits of a largely foreign economic class, the sensation of what it's like to have pieces of you selected and others discarded is one that's largely relatable. more ›

Sally Jacques, visionary dynamo behind Blue Lapis Light, is at it again. more ›