Under the Radar Festival
| Under the Radar Festival aka RADAR | |
|---|---|
Theatre festival | |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Location(s) | New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Inaugurated | 2005 |
| Founder | Mark Russell |
| Website | utrfest |
The Under the Radar Festival is an internationally-sourced experimental
In 2021, Under the Radar was canceled and replaced by a virtual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Festival was subsequently canceled in 2022 due to "multiple disruptions related to the rapid community spread of the Omicron variant".[2] In mid-2023, Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of The Public Theater, announced the indefinite suspension of the Under the Radar Festival at The Public for "entirely financial" reasons. [3]
Under the Radar was almost immediately revived [4] in collaboration with the NYC production company ArKtype. The 2024 iteration of the Festival ran from January 5 to January 21, presenting more than 180 performances of 17 distinct productions at 11 different theaters across Brooklyn and Manhattan, including Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, Theatre for a New Audience, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Japan Society (Manhattan), the Abrons Arts Center at Henry Street Settlement, BRIC Arts Media, New York Live Arts, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, St. Ann's Warehouse, Mabou Mines, and The Invisible Dog Art Center. Additional programming as part of the 2024 Festival included a Symposium featuring keynote conversations with Jeremy O. Harris, Ravi Jain, Hana Sharif, and Kaneza Schall; a "Coming Attractions" artistic pitch session; a six show "UFO" works-in-progress performance calendar; and an "Anti-Misogynoir Disco" dance party at Lincoln Center spotlighting local Black women DJs, including Erica "Twelve45" Blunt, DJ Shannon, Lady NiK and Miss Hap. The 2024 season was a critical and commercial success, selling out the vast majority of its performances.
References
- ^ "Mark Russell". 2024-01-25. Retrieved 2024-01-25.
- ^ Evans, Greg (2021-12-31). "New York's Public Theater Cancels Entire Under The Radar Festival Due To Covid Disruptions". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
- ^ Tran, Diep (2023-06-07). "Public Theater Responds to Outcry Over Cancellation of Under the Radar Festival". Playbill. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
- ^ Soloski, Alexis (2023-10-12). "Under the Radar to Return, With New Partners". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-10-12.
General references
- Del Signore, John. "Mark Russell, Under the Radar Festival". Interview with Mark Russell. Gothamist, January 10, 2008. Accessed January 10, 2008.
- "Intimate But Global: Mark Russell on the Return of Under the Radar". Interview with American Theatre, January 10, 2024. Accessed January 10, 2024.
- "January Is Experimental Theater Month", The New Yorker, December 22, 2023. Accessed January 10, 2024.
- "Jan Arts NYC and Under the Radar Festival",WNYC (blog), January 02, 2023. Accessed January 10, 2024.
External links
- [1] – Official webpage
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