Brodsky/Baryshnikov is a meditation on mortality, with a little bit of dancing
The set for Mikhail Baryshnikov's tribute to Joseph Brodsky consists of a structure resembling a ruined old greenhouse"something you might picture surviving in a neglected corner of the Ranyevskaya estate years after the sale of the cherry orchard. Baryshnikov's route to the stage takes him through a door at the back of the structure, across its near-empty interior, and finally out a downstage set of doors.…