Theater in Quarantine is a born-digital company so there is a wealth of art to experience in their archives. Take a tour through some behind-the-scenes videos & check out the rest of their work.
First a novel, then several silent films, then a contentiously adapted and enormously successful musical – odds are, you’ve encountered a version of Phantom of the Opera in the 100+ years since its first rendition. Now, Theatre in Quarantine is bringing it to audiences from their signature, concise stage, also known as founder Joshua William Gelb’s closet.
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Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.
Clive Bloom. Gothic Histories: The Taste for Terror, 1764 to the Present. Continuum, 2010.
Freda Chapple & Chiel Kattenbelt. Intermediality in Theatre and Performance. Rodopi, 2006.
Abigail de Kosnik. Is Twitter a Stage?: Theories of Social Media Platforms as Performance Spaces. University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Gaston Leroux. Le Fantôme de l’Opéra. Pierre Lafitte, 1910.
Laurence Raw. Adapted from the Original: Essays on the Value and Values of Works Remade for a New Medium. Harvard University Press, 2018.
Read All About It
New York Times | Aug 18, 2021
He Invited Us Into His Closet for Theater. And It Was Astonishing.
“I didn’t know where I was going, but I immediately knew there was room to play.”
ISDP | July 13, 2020
Interview with Joshua William Gelb
“It’s hard for me to imagine just going back to what I had considered traditional theater.”
From the Archives
Theater in Quarantine was last at NYU Skirball in 2023. Take a look back at Joshua William Gelb in conversation with artistic collaborator and NYU professor Normandy Sherwood.