Wednesday, January 22, 2025
With Merce Cunningham, she forged one of the great partnerships in dance history. She later recounted those years in an incisive, unsparing memoir.
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This revival of Susan Glaspell’s 1930 play, loosely based on events surrounding Emily Dickinson, provides an opportunity to reflect on defending women’s freedom in a man’s world.
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This noir-flavored production from Canadian Stage, part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, combines film and live action.
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Thursday, August 6, 2015
Written and directed by Anisa George, this compelling, disturbing play at the New Ohio Theater examines the mindsets that can lead to violence.
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P.S. 1 has a change of heart and decides to allow the performance artist Ann Liv Young back to deliver a lecture after a contentious performance in February ended abruptly with the museum cu…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe French artist James Thiérrée brings a fantastical meditation on identity to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe new show from Witness Relocation is a mash-up of rules and ridiculousness: great fun, stupid fun and great stupidity.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Wooster Group’s new production of Tennessee Williams’s 1977 play “Vieux Carré” draws from various influences, including Chinese opera, the films of Paul …
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Inspired by Felix Salter, author of “Bambi” and smut, a Little Lord production at the Brick plays with cafe culture, pornography, Zionism and more.
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Jenny Rachel Weiner’s “Horse Girls,” directed by Sarah Krohn, is a 50-minute pop descent into madness, set in an equine-themed bedroom.
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“Traveling Lady,” at the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line festival, is a fashion-driven multimedia concoction inspired by a journalist’s travels.
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The actress-author of “Belfast Blues,” Geraldine Hughes, tells her story against images of Northern Ireland’s history.
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The musical “Solitary Light,” in the Theater: Village festival, touches on the 1911 Triangle garment factory fire that killed scores of garment workers.
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The popular radio show host Ira Glass performs with Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass in “Three Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host.”
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“Amaluna,” a Cirque du Soleil show directed by Diane Paulus, creates a fantasy world where female strength is out front.
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“Adoration of the Old Woman” finds its 17-year-old heroine shipped off to Puerto Rico to live with her great-grandmother.
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“The Pig, or Vaclav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig,” a musical theater piece at 3LD Art & Technology, evokes the use of subterfuge in a mercurial and oppressive society. Pork is served. &…
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To beat the high cost of her art, Cynthia Hopkins is the cast and (largely) the crew in “A Living Documentary” at New York Live Arts in Chelsea.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
“Feast,” written and directed by Andrew Ondrejcak, re-enacts the final banquet of Babylon at the Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar festival.
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“El Año en Que Nací (The Year I Was Born)” examines Chile’s tumultuous history through the eyes of artists born during Augusto Pinochet’s rule.
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“A Piece of Work,” Annie Dorsen’s “algorithmic” take on Shakespeare’s Danish prince, is scrambled by computer codes and chatbots.
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Friday, December 6, 2013
The Mobile Shakespeare Unit’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” gives life to a much-told tale and to its audience.
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