performance art

The Finale of “The Rehearsal” Is Outlandish and Sublime
May 26, 2025
Nathan Fielder, like Andy Kaufman before him, makes performance-art comedy that does not only poke fun at the world but experimentally perturbs it, and he plies this trade in...
Pee-wee Herman and the Cost of Dividing Yourself in Two
May 23, 2025
One of the pivotal turns in Paul Reubens’s life happened years before Pee-wee Herman, years before the “Playhouse,” years before the arrests. It was the mid-seventies, and Reubens was...