Representative Press

BOOKS IN WHICH THIEVES APPEARS

• OFF SITES–Contemporary Performance Beyond Site-Specific by Bertie Ferdman (Southern Illinois University Press)
• ON EDGE–Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century by C. Carr (University Press of New England)
• TRANSITORY GARDENS, UPROOTED LIVES by Diana Balmori and Margaret Morton (Yale University Press)
• FRAGILE DWELLING by Margaret Morton (Aperture)
• ABC NO RIO DINERO: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery Edited by Alan Moore and Marc Miller (ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects)
• THE HILL by Gabriele Schafer (Autonomedia)

ARTICLES

THIEVES THEATRE

• The Hill: A Thieves Theatre Podcast (Travalanche) — May 27, 2023
• Off the Grid: New York City Landmark Performance (Performing Arts Journal / by Bertie Ferdman) — May, 2015
• Of Banks and Mountebanks (Travalanche) — May 6, 2011
• The Most Avant Garde Couple (Tamar Babuadze), Georgian culture magazine — March, 2006
• a written history in progress of The Making of Thieves Theatre’s Last Stand (Noah Gardiner) — 1991

FRIDGEFEST / DIVA DIVAN

• Pick of the Week THE ANTI-FRINGE FESTIVAL Cold Cuts (Audrey Gray), Philadelphia City Paper — September 8, 2005
• PRESSLER’S MISCELLANY (Jessica Pressler), Philadelphia Weekly — August 31, 2005

FLY BY NIGHT

• OTHER LIMITS, Alternatives to the biggest Fringe game in town. (J. Cooper Robb), Philadelphia Weekly — August 29, 2001
• THESE DRAMATISTS ARE PLAYING FOR TIME
  (Renee Lucas Wayne), Philadelphia Daily News — April 5, 2001

PHILARAT CONFERENCE

• BROOKLYN AND BEYOND… RAT (Bridgit Dengle), Show Business — July 11-17, 2001

SAY UNCLE

• EDGE ODDS AND ENDS (“Critic’s Pick”) (Betty Wilder), Back Stage West — November 23, 2000

THE HEIDI HO COLLECTION

• GALLERIES choices (“especially recommended”) (excerpt), (Kim Levin), The Village Voice — April 15, 1997

CORPULENT CHRISTI: THE FIRST CHURCH OF ELVI / part of Annex Theatre’s Lippizaner Teeth Apart

• R.A.T.’S ‘LIPIZZANER’ IS ROWDY AND UNCONVENTIONAL HOLIDAY FARE (excerpt), (Michael Upchurch), The Seattle Times — December 12, 1996

WHIM VENDORS: Have Gallery Will Travel

• THE ALLURE OF CARNIVAL (Lauren Rosenbert), NYsoho Arts Magazine — July/August 1996
• RAT DROPPINGS (excerpt), (Robert Faires), arts Articulations, The Austin Chronicle –August 1996

NOMAD MONAD: The Making of Thieves Theatre’s Last Stand (“The Hill”)

  (The following is selected. Click here for a comprehensive listing.)

• KINGS OF THE HILL (Nick Fracaro) essay in Müller in America: American Productions of Works by Heiner Müller — 2003
• HEARTBREAK HILL (editorial), New York Newsday — August 19, 1993
• CITY RAZES HOMELESS SHANTIES (William T. Slattery), New York Post — August 18, 1993
• FOR HOMELESS, A LAST HAVEN IS DEMOLISHED (Ian Fisher), New York Times — August 18, 1993
• REFUGEES AGAIN (E. Sachar, T. Shioya), New York Newsday — August 17, 1993
• ‘TERRIFIED’ FAMILIES IN BID TO BOOT HOMELESS (Rocco Parascandola),
  New York Post — January 2, 1993
• COPS NAB MAN SHOOTING CAR (Rocco Parascandola), New York Post
  — September 23, 1992
• AMERICA IS AN OLD COUNTRY, (Dick Hebdige), Artforum — October 1992
• POINT OF RETURN (Bill Landis), The Village Voice — Summer 1992
• FEDS ZERO IN ON COPS (M. Parente, L. Levitt, D. Kociennierwski),
  New York Newsday –June 18, 1992
• THE MASTER BUILDER (J.A. Lobbia), The Village Voice — June 17, 1992
• SHANTYTOWN FAMILY HONORS ONE OF ITS OWN (Daniel Hays), Daily News — June 11, 1992
• BLAZE OF GLORY IN SHANTYTOWN (Daniel Hays), Daily News — June 9, 1992
• CON HELD IN SHANTY FIRE DEATH (Daniel Hays), Daily News — June 5, 1992
• SHANTY DWELLERS CALL COPS ABUSIVE (Daniel Hays), Daily News — June 2, 1992
• INFERNO EN LA BARRIADA (EDLP), El Diario –May 31, 1992
• ARSON AT MANHATTAN BRIDGE SHANTIES LEAVES ONE DEAD (James Bennet),
  New York Times — May 31, 1992
• REMAINS OF DEADLY FIRE (Alan Raia), New York Newsday — May 30, 1992
• SHANTY INFERNO (Daniel Hays), Daily News — May 30, 1992
• CELEBRATION ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE (Bob Morris), New York Times — May 24, 1992
• IN SEARCH OF BOHEMIA (C. Carr), The Village Voice –February 4, 1992
• FOR SOME PEOPLE, HOME IS WHERE THE HILL IS (Jacquie McNish), Toronto Globe and Mail — October 14, 1991
• VOICE CHOICES , (C. Carr), The Village Voice — September 10, 1991
• MEMORIALS OF WAR AND PEACE (Andre V. Tchelistcheff), The Livable
  City [Municipal Art Society] — September 1991
• OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS: SHANTYTOWN  (James Lardner), The New Yorker — July 1, 1991
• CITY PLANS RAIDS ON HOMELESS CAMPS (Michael Powell), New York
  Newsday — June 26, 1991
• HE’LL TAKE MANHATTAN (Don Helasy), New York Post — November 27, 1990
• SQUATTER WAR COMING TO ‘THE HILL’ (Andrea Peyser), New York Post — July 9, 1990

TRASH, THE CITY AND DEATH — By R.W. Fassbinder

• SLEAZY, SLOPPY, SENSATIONAL (Barry Walters), The Advocate — June 7, 1987
• STAGES (excerpt), American Theatre — May 1987
• WELL-BEHAVED BOURGEOIS KIDS PLAY AT DECADENCE (Jim Leverett),
  Frankfurter Rundschau — May 6, 1987
• WE DON’T WANT TO BE CENSORS (Konrad Wepfer), Juedische Rundschau
  [Basel, Switzerland] — April 30, 1987
• PREMIERE OF THE CONTROVERSIAL FASSBINDER PLAY (Henry Marx),
  Aufbau [NYC German-language paper] — April 24, 1987
• AT THE THEATER WITH DPA (German Press Agency), Die Zeit [Germany]
  — April 24, 1987
• TRASH, CITY, DEATH IN N.Y.(Obermayer), Communale [Heidelberg, Germany]
  — April 23, 1987
• ABOUT THAT FASSBINDER PLAY AND ‘THE RICH JEW’ (G. Azon, L. Weichselbaum, D. Friedman), Downtown — April 22, 1987
• NO INCIDENTS (Harry Dederichs), Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, Heidelberg [Germany] — April 22, 1987
• FASSBINDER’S CONTROVERSIAL PIECE PREMIERES IN NEW YORK (K.U.),
  Allgemeine Zeitung, Mainz [Germany] — April 21, 1987
• NO SCANDAL SURROUNDING ‘TRASH’(AP), Basler Zeitung [Switzerland]
  — April 21, 1987
• CITY OF THE DAMNED (excerpt), (Eileen Myles), New York Native — April 20, 1987
• NO SCANDAL SURROUNDING ‘TRASH’ (H.D.), Fränkische Landeszeitung,
  Ansbach [Germany] — April 18-20, 1987
• FASSBINDER PIECE-MORE EASILY ACCEPTED (DPA), Wiesbadener Kurier
  [Germany] — April 18, 1987
• NO FASSBINDER SACANDAL IN NEW YORK (Harry Dederichs), Mannheimer
  Morgen [Germany] — April 18, 1987
• ‘A FEW LINES OF DYANMITE’ IN THE BASEMENT (DPA), Rheinpfalz, Kaiserslautern [Germany] — April 18, 1987
• ‘TRASH’ DOESN’T FAZE MANHATTAN (DPA), Augsburger Allgemeine [Germany]
  — April 18, 1987
• FASSBINDER’S ‘TRASH’ NOW IN NEW YORK (D.E.D.), Suedwest Presse, Ulm [Germany] — April 18, 1987
• TRASH DISPOSAL ON LOWER BROADWAY (Joerg von Uthmann), Frankfurter
  Allgemeine Zeitung [Germany] — April 18, 1987
• HERE’S MY ASS (excerpt), (Evelyn Holst), Stern [Germany] — April 15, 1987
• TRASH, THE CITY AND DEATH (full article) (Thomas M. Disch),
  The Nation — April 11, 1987
• THE RICH NEW IN MANHATTAN (article w/translation)(Rainer Weber),
  Der Spiegel [Germany] — #15/1987
• TRASH, THE CITY AND DEATH (Elinor Nauen), Cover — April 1987
• A LONG-SUPPRESSED FASSBINDER PREMIERE (Drew Featherston), New York
  Newsday — March 31, 1987
• THE TRASH HEAP OF HISTORY (excerpt), (Robert Massa), The Village Voice
  — March 31, 1987
• NO SCANDAL SURROUNDING ‘TRASH’, Freie Presse, Vienna [Austria] — March
  28, 1987

THE MARAT/SADE — Adapted from Peter Weiss

• MARAT/SADE (Richard Shoichet), NOW [Toronto] — March 22-28, 1984
• THEATRE CENTRE’S COLLECTIVE CORE (excerpt), (Nick Shehan), NOW [Toronto]
  — March 15-21, 1984
• PLAY ASSAULTS ACTORS, CROWD (J. Spiegel), NOW [Toronto] — February 1984
• DON’T WHIP MARAT/SADE (excerpt), (Robert Grant), NOW [Toronto] — February, 1984

THE HUMAN VOICE — By Jean Cocteau

• LES FRANCO-TORONTOIS SONT DIFFICILE (Rita Lecours) L’Express– July 19-25, 1983

THE WHITE WHORE AND THE BIT PLAYER — By Tom Eyen

• PROSPECTING FOR GOLD ON THEATRE’S FRINGE  (Robert Crew), Toronto Star — July 1982
• NUN AND SEX JOKES MAKE WOEFUL WHORE (Ray Conlogue), Toronto Globe and Mail — July 1982