The decision to dissolve your internationally renowned, 20-year-old performance company cannot be an easy one to make. But Chicago’s Goat Island found celebration in cessation, and invited audiences worldwide to join them in saying goodbye with the tour of their final performance, “The Lastmaker.” This complex and captivating expedition into what it means to come to an end felt less like a presentation than a communion—an intimate and piercing culmination of a collected life in art. If it is indeed true that all good things must come to an end, then Goat Island has crafted the ultimate farewell, befitting their legacy—one that will last and last.
Dime Stories: RNC Night Three: The Volitional Blindness of the G.O.P. starring Mike Pence, Company Man While news, big news, was breaking all across America yesterday regarding the continued violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the murders of two Black Lives Matter protesters in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, you wouldn't have known it from watching the third installment of the Republican National Convention.
