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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Justin Peck's New Americana, 'Copland Dance Episodes' by Joshua Barone and Mark Sommerfeld

At New York City Ballet, Peck's "Copland Dance Episodes" brings the composer's three classic ballet scores under one roof, at last.

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Monday, August 15, 2022

Solange Enters New Territory: Ballet Composer by Joshua Barone

The multihyphenate pop star will compose her first ballet score for the Fall Fashion Gala at New York City Ballet in September.

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Thursday, April 21, 2022

Ivo van Hove on His Famously Short Rehearsal Times by Joshua Barone

Since his first production a quarter-century ago, the director has honed a process defined by tight schedules and bold, decisive changes.

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Thursday, March 10, 2022

Review: A Rescue Operation Salvages Leonard Bernstein's Final Opera by Joshua Barone

In Paris, a new production of "A Quiet Place" makes a strong case for a work that has long struggled to join the repertory.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Teresa Reichlen Retires From New York City Ballet by Joshua Barone

A principal dancer since 2009, Reichlen will make her final appearance in George Balanchine's one-act "Swan Lake" on Feb. 19.

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Monday, November 22, 2021

The Emails Behind the Opera 'Eurydice' by Joshua Barone

For several years, the composer Matthew Aucoin corresponded with Sarah Ruhl about how to adapt her play into the Met Opera's latest premiere.

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Ballet Theater Gives the Stage to This Pianist's Drag Persona by Joshua Barone

Lypsinka, the alter ego of John Epperson, a longtime pianist for Ballet Theater, will perform as part of the company's inaugural Pride Nights.

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Friday, October 22, 2021

Andrew Lloyd Webber Brings the Music of the Night Back to 'Phantom' by Joshua Barone

After a long pandemic pause, "The Phantom of the Opera" is returning to Broadway with some help from its creator.

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Friday, October 15, 2021

Glimmerglass Festival Unveils Its Leader's Final Season by Joshua Barone

Francesca Zambello, who has overseen a dozen editions of the opera festival in upstate New York, will depart next summer.

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Tuesday, September 14, 2021

A Climate Opera Arrives in New York, With 21 Tons of Sand by Joshua Barone

"Sun & Sea (Marina)," an operatic installation that won the top prize at the Venice Biennale, is being staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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Friday, September 3, 2021

When Opera Livestreams Became Live Performances by Joshua Barone

This summer, three European productions, previously available to American audiences only online, were at last accessible in person.

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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Richard Nelson's New Play Closes a Chapter of Theater History by Joshua Barone

"What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad" is the 12th and final installment in the quiet yet sweeping "Rhinebeck Panorama."

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Sunday, August 15, 2021

Review: 'The Threepenny Opera' Returns Home, Liberated by Joshua Barone

Barrie Kosky's new production for the Berliner Ensemble, at the theater where the famous work premiered, knows where to break the rules.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2021

An Opera Screams for Human Dignity by Joshua Barone

Luigi Nono's furiously political and prophetic "Intolleranza 1960" arrives at the Salzburg Festival.

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

'Myths and Hymns,' a Theater Cult Favorite, Changes Shape Again by Joshua Barone

Adam Guettel's genre-clashing song cycle has taken on many forms. The latest: a starry online mini-series.

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Thursday, March 25, 2021

Kurt Weill's Path From Europe to Broadway Was a Straight Line by Joshua Barone

Weill's early, Weimar-era works reveal the qualities that found a natural home in his golden age American musicals.

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

A New 'Aida' Lands in the Middle of France's Culture Wars by Joshua Barone

The production, which examines the work's colonial legacy, opened after the far right accused the Paris Opera of "antiracism gone mad."

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Sunday, October 18, 2020

Anne Washburn Just Wants Her Trump Play to Be Irrelevant by Joshua Barone

"Shipwreck," a fantasia about white liberals and the president's infamous dinner with James Comey, has been adapted into an audio play.

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Sunday, May 24, 2020

The Fall of Autumn: Live Performance Producers Are Giving Up on 2020 by Michael Paulson, Joshua Barone, Ben Sisario and Zachary Woolfe

Uncertainty about the coronavirus and the challenge of protecting audiences and artists is prompting many prominent presenters to wait till next year.

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Monday, February 3, 2020

A Young Composer Takes On Opera's Oldest Myth by Joshua Barone

Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl have adapted "Eurydice," her play about the Orpheus story, for Los Angeles Opera. Next stop: New York.

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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

'Cats': What to Know Before You See It by Joshua Barone

Love it or hate it, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical is one of the most popular of all time. Before the new movie adaptation comes out, catch up on its four-decade history.

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Thursday, December 5, 2019

How to Spend the Holidays in New York City by Joshua Barone

A roundup of events in every borough, from the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Manhattan to the annual Holiday Train Show in the Bronx.

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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Park Avenue Armory Unveils Its 2020 Season by Joshua Barone

Among the highlights are a commission for Bill T. Jones, a staging of Monteverdi by Pierre Audi, and Alex Lawther in "Hamlet."

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Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Ã‰douard Louis Would Like to Talk About Theater Now by Joshua Barone

The French wunderkind's books have quickly become magnets for the stage. Adaptations of "History of Violence" and "The End of Eddy" will play New York simultaneously.

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Friday, October 25, 2019