09/14/2025
“Can colors be theatrical? We’ll find out.”
In this Sunday’s Arts & Leisure, profiles with visuals by . She writes, “Julio Torres would like to design a hotel. Or a lake house. He has plans for a sand castle competition and a coffee-table book that may also be a pop-up book. Once between takes for PROBLEMISTA, the 2024 film that he wrote, directed and starred in, his co-star Tilda Swinton grabbed his hand and whispered that they should conceptualize a theme park. .tv, performance artist and close collaborator on the deranged television comedy he created, FANTASMAS, thinks that he should run for governor. It’s possible.
A former writer for , a standout on the dreamy, bizarro TV show LOS ESPOOKYS, a children’s book author, an indelible late-night guest and a stand-up comedian who often sits down, Torres always seems to be adding more hyphens to what is already an impressively multihyphenate life.”
COLOR THEORIES continues through OCT 5 at .space.new.york.
On Sept. 3, he will add two more — monologuist and playwright — when his first Off Broadway play, , begins performances at Performance Space New York. If COLOR THEORIES is not perhaps his most personal work, it is a pristine distillation of his coolly absurdist approach and his commitment to aesthetic experiment.”
