Adam Wassilchalk

"Amalgamation" Unites Caribbean Dance Talent

Revealing that the universe has no budget on greatness.

Adam Wassilchalk

7 Sep 2025 · 3 min read

Cluedunit

Stage version of classic murder mystery reveals its power on tour.

Adam Wassilchalk

23 Mar 2025 · 3 min read

Safety In Bubbles

"Grandmother/Bathtub" makes a splash at Yale Cabaret.

Adam Wassilchalk

2 Feb 2025 · 2 min read

Love Is On The Brain

In Yale Rep's revival of "Eden," about Black Families uprooted to build Lincoln Center.

Adam Wassilchalk

24 Jan 2025 · 4 min read

A Father And Son Face The Grim Darkness Of The Far Future

There is Only War The Philly Game Shop 521 – 525 S 5th Street Philadelphia September 5 – 19, 2024 There Is Only War, a Fringe Festival two-hander played for an audience

Adam Wassilchalk

8 Sep 2024 · 3 min read

Crew Loads-in The House Before Bringing It Down

Arts Workers Are Artists Too Performance Space New York Feb. 8, 2024 Assemble the stage. Hang the soft goods. Focus the lights. Focus the projector. Coffee break. Usually, when I

Adam Wassilchalk

21 Feb 2024 · 4 min read

Chinatown Diner Cracks The Pancake-Syrup Code

Golden Diner 123 Madison St. New York, N.Y. I am not immune to brunch propaganda. As I come up on almost a year in NYC, all my algorithms seem

Adam Wassilchalk

30 Jan 2024 · 4 min read

Devil Is In The Details In New Roundabout Play

Covenant Roundabout Theatre Company 111 W. 46th St New York City Through Dec. 17 Halloween might be over, but squeals of terror and delight still fill the air of New

Adam Wassilchalk

19 Nov 2023 · 4 min read

Can You Capture A Mass Shooting In Dance, Music & Poetry All At Once?

Watch Night The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) 251 Fulton Street, New York, NY Through Nov. 18, 2023 “Start with the white savior teacher? Or maybe the slick Black

Adam Wassilchalk

10 Nov 2023 · 4 min read

Black (Woman) Magic

Nicole Cardoza — Magician NeueHouse Madison Square Manhattan, NY Oct. 31, 2023 “This is my first time performing for such a wide, intergalactic, interspecies audience,” Nicole Cardoza observed, looking out across

Adam Wassilchalk

5 Nov 2023 · 4 min read

Breakfast Burrito Beckons Brunchie To World’s Craziest Diner

Elm Street Diner 463 Elm St. Stamford, Conn. It took Instagram — and moving images of a particularly succulent amalgam of eggs, bacon and sausage — to finally get me up to

Adam Wassilchalk

26 Oct 2023 · 5 min read

Juggler Defies Gravity, Reveals New Realms

REFLEX: Unraveling 4,000 Years of Juggling Baruch Performing Arts Center 1 Bernard Baruch Way, NYC Through Oct. 22, 2023 “Skill, difficulty, and risk,” juggler Jay Gilligan notes, are one

Adam Wassilchalk

20 Oct 2023 · 4 min read

Culture Makers Cross Paths at The Apollo

[at] The Intersection Festival of Arts & Ideas The Apollo Theater Harlem, NY Oct. 6 – 8, 2023 “We are literally in culture’s uterus.” Jourdan Hicks observed, while facilitating a

Adam Wassilchalk

10 Oct 2023 · 4 min read

Can I Get A Yeehaw!?

Cross That River 59E59 Theaters Theater B New York, NY Through Oct. 8, 2023 Most folks probably wouldn’t be able to guess that a quarter of American cowboys were

Adam Wassilchalk

29 Sep 2023 · 4 min read

Artists Travel To Dreamland

Dreamland Muse Gallery Bushwick, Brooklyn Closed “The world is not as bright as it used to be,” artist NARCO (@artbynarco) noted, explaining why vibrant colors are so crucial to her

Adam Wassilchalk

22 Sep 2023 · 5 min read

New Play Asks What “Genius” Is Worth

“What would you do with $800,000?” playwright and actor Tarek Ziad asks at the start of Give Me The MacArthur Genius Grant. And then again. And then again. The

Adam Wassilchalk

29 Aug 2023 · 4 min read

Egg And Spoon Tell The Truth About College

“Give us a One Word Suggestion!” reads a sign on a table in the lobby of Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at 502 West 53rd St. Before seeing What Else

Adam Wassilchalk

21 Aug 2023 · 6 min read

Ooh, Lala’s: New Haven Pizza Migrates To Brooklyn

I miss New Haven pizza. I spent the majority of the last five years in New Haven, and moved to New York City only a few months ago. As a

Adam Wassilchalk

14 Aug 2023 · 6 min read