I have a weird relationship with women in the classical canon. Before I go further, I will say this: I am an actor who loves doing classical work and I also happen to be a woman who loves doing classical work. I have studied and trained with incredible women who have helped me find so much beauty in the somewhat limited scope of femininity in the classical canon. However, looking at classical work with a gendered lens is troubling, often, for artists who aim to create work t

Duchess of Malfi is a tough play to summarize, and harder to categorize. On the surface, it feels like a typical Jacobean tragedy: high body count, contrived means of death (poisoned Bible, anyone?). But just a bit deeper down, it's a meditation on family, and how family can be both a safe harbor and a destructive prison. Last summer, Humans of New York went to war-torn areas and refugee camps, photographing and interviewing people whose lives were turned upside down by force