At the Museum of Late Human Antiquities, the curators are fiercely committed to bringing a lost civilization to life again: What were humans really like? What did they wear, what did they eat, how did ...

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Jordan Harrison’s new play THE ANTIQUITIES asks the question, “What does it mean to be human?” It opens with two museum curators inviting the audience to tour a museum displaying relics from the late ...

From curtain up to curtain call, “The Antiquities” — Jordan Harrison’s centuries-spanning, sci-fi tale about artificial intelligence wreaking havoc on humanity — runs 95 intermissionless minutes. I ...

Between City Lit’s new adaptation of Karel Čapek’s 1921 sci-fi classic, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), and Goodman’s current staging of Jordan Harrison’s The Antiquities, the end of humanity in ...

Harrison’s string of vignettes is one long object lesson stretching from 1816 Europe to distant dystopia. It’s a literal object lesson: a series of historic items—ranging from fire pits to telephones, ...