A.I.-Scripted Stories, and a Counterpoint, Take the Stage Off Broadway

“Prometheus Firebringer” and “Bioadapted” test the waters, while the abstract “Psychic Self Defense” is a warm and pulsing counterpoint.

Seated behind a plain wooden table, the theater maker Annie Dorsen is not costumed to catch our gaze, or lit dramatically. In the performance-lecture that is her A.I.-focused show “Prometheus Firebringer,” at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, you might assume she’d be the boring part.

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How Broadway Is Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month

National Hispanic Heritage Month begins September 15, but celebrations are starting early with the concert ¡Viva! Broadway: Aquí y Allá (Here and There). “I celebrate my Hispanic heritage all year long with the food I cook, the music I listen to, and the fantastic conversations I have in Spanish with friends and family,” says Broadway actor Andréa Burns, before asking, “How will you spend it?”

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