Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Although Geoff Sobelle’s life currently focuses on food – or, more aptly, FOOD – ...
When it comes to hoarding, the Collyer brothers have nothing on Geoff Sobelle, who has created a performance piece on the compulsion to preserve the flotsam and jetsam of the past. To this end, the ...
Geoff Sobelle has written 1 shows including The Object Lesson (Writer).
Geoff Sobelle calls his new one-man play "a meditation on our relationship to things." On a visit to the show, NPR's Arun Rath gathers a lesson in... Out Of 'The Object Lesson,' An Education In The ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “I don’t want to tell people what to think,” the performance artist said of his latest show. “I just hope it tickles them and their curiosity.” By ...
At the Edinburgh Festival, Geoff Sobelle presents a dinner party as a theatrical spectacle, in which silliness is the end in itself. By Houman Barekat The critic Houman Barekat saw “Food” at the ...
An enormous table sits in the middle of the stage. Dozens of audience members seated around the periphery await the proceedings with semi-nervous chatter. As lights dim, creator and performer Geoff ...
The dirt arrived first. Five and a half tons of it. At first, it simply lay there, caked across the massive dining table, quietly unsettling in its presence. Then came the platters, gleaming silver, ...
Food is seductive. Food is revolting. Eating is a banal chore or a foundation of rich family memories. But it’s also a sickening, piggish spectacle. And in “Food,” by performance artist Geoff Sobelle, ...
The holidays are upon us. Whether you’re planning to mark the occasion with a formal feast or a frozen dinner, Geoff Sobelle is fascinated. “There’s such a ritual surrounding food, whether you’re ...
Sunday is my last broadcast as host of Weekend All Things Considered at NPR West. I'm moving back to Boston, and with packing well underway, after the broadcast I'll be sleeping between piles of ...