Under the Radar returns with its largest January edition in New York

Under the Radar, the festival founded in 2005, is running in New York through Jan. 25 with more than 30 shows at 24 venues, its biggest edition yet. January now hosts several simultaneous festivals: Prototype runs through Jan. 18, the Exponential Festival presents work across Brooklyn through Feb.

7, and The Fire This Time stages new 10-minute pieces by early-career Black playwrights from Jan. 23-31 at the Apollo Stages in collaboration with Frigid New York. Under the Radar is noted for resisting boundaries, presenting work associated with a downtown experimental sensibility at venues from Lincoln Center to Pregones/PRTT in the Bronx and across genres including theater, dance, music and video.

The paper highlighted a small selection of Under the Radar offerings: "12 Last Songs" from the Quarantine company of Manchester, a part-installation, part-live piece that explores the nature of work over 12 hours (Jan. 17, La MaMa); JoAnne Akalaitis and Mabou Mines’ staging of Samuel Beckett’s radio play "All That Fall" (Jan.

8-18, Mabou Mines); "The Ford/Hill Project," conceived by Elizabeth Marvel and Lee Sunday Evans, which juxtaposes the verbatim testimonies of Anita Hill and Christine Blasey Ford and reunites Marvel with Amber Iman alongside Jon Michael Hill and Josh Hamilton (through Jan. 11, La MaMa); the Elevator Repair Service adaptation of "Ulysses" (Jan.

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Culture, New York, La Mama, Mabou Mines, Elevator Repair Service, Prototype