Thursday, May 24, 2012
An academic exercise in opaque theatrical symbolism, "Here I Go" is 60 minutes of the rambling thoughts of a suicidal grandmother who idolizes Dolly Parton.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:57AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
You have to be a real nit-picker to find anything wrong with American Ballet Theatre's lavish production of "La Bayadere," choreography by Natalia Makarova.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:24AMFriday, May 18, 2012
A spunky little world premiere musical, "Jack's Back!" is lots more fun and far less disturbing than expected, considering its subject is Jack the Ripper.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:49AMFriday, May 11, 2012
A long overdue tribute to choreographer Jack Cole, "Heat Wave" is an entertaining revue of Chet Walker's reconstructions of dances from Hollywood musicals.
SOURCE: Backstage at 04:19AMSaturday, April 21, 2012
Adapted by Richard Tulloch from a Guus Kuijer novel, "The Book of Everything" proffers the most worthwhile 135 minutes you are likely to spend in a theater.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:27AMFriday, April 20, 2012
Ballet Hispanico presents a smart work by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, an uninspired premiere by Ronald K. Brown, and a flop by artistic director Eduardo Vilaro.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:32AMWednesday, April 11, 2012
Rock Week sent "The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd rolling out of the contest on the popular ABC competition show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:13AMChoreographed by Ji?í Kylián and Michael Schumacher and performed by former members of Nederlands Dans Theater, “Last Touch First” is a triumph.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:24AMTuesday, April 10, 2012
Super Bowl star Donald Driver borrowed from Gene Simmons' playbook to emerge victorious on Rock Week. Melissa Gilbert suffers an injury.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:30AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
Soap actor Jack Wagner is cut from the competition while Seal and Rascal Flatts provide musical entertainment on the ABC competition show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:10AMTuesday, April 3, 2012
Katherine Jenkins and William Levy score the first perfect tens of the season on ABC's popular competition show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:54AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
Tennis great Martina Navratilova is the first to get the boot on ABC's popular competition show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 10:19AMMonday, March 26, 2012
In “Restless Eye,” modern choreographer David Neumann puts the responsibility for making meaning out of his dances squarely on the audience’s shoulders.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:00AMSaturday, March 24, 2012
Pan Asian Rep's "Baudelaire: La Mort" is an impressionistic dance-theater mix of recitation, butoh, flamenco, and atmospheric music, with a beguiling cast.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:53AMWednesday, March 21, 2012
This concert revival of “Li’l Abner” highlights the wit of the Panama-Frank book and Johnny Mercer’s lyrics and the appeal of Gene de Paul’s swinging score.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:50AMTuesday, March 20, 2012
Welsh opera singer Katherine Jenkins stepped out as the one to beat in the March 19 season premiere of ABC's hit reality show.
SOURCE: Backstage at 11:01AMSunday, March 18, 2012
New Federal Theatre’s production of Jeffrey Sweet’s play about a court-martial of black WACs hits hard at our sense of ethics but is emotionally distancing.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:00AMSaturday, March 17, 2012
At Lincoln Center for the first time, Paul Taylor Dance Company presents masterful choreography and stunning star dancing marred by weaknesses in its corps.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:14AMSaturday, March 10, 2012
Vocalist Napua Davoy's one-woman autobiographical show "Stella Rising," at Pan Asian Rep, might work better as a cabaret evening than as a musical play.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:59AMFriday, February 24, 2012
In Frigid New York's "Little Lady," movement artist Sandrine Lafond conjures a creature that is too strange to like but too expertly rendered to dismiss.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:47AMThursday, February 16, 2012
This boring hodgepodge of video, songs, and talk at Dixon Place created by Grammy winner Vernon R. Reid explores African-American identity.
SOURCE: Backstage at 07:44AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
This flashy, upbeat celebration of Brazilian music and dance is distinguished by its inclusion of freestyle footballers who delight us with soccer-ball juggling tricks.
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:23AMSaturday, January 28, 2012
Visually striking yet kinetically static, this hourlong marionette musical is driven by an intelligent, humorous script that is probably better appreciated by middle-aged moms than little …
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:12AMWednesday, January 25, 2012
Set to Sly & the Family Stone recordings, this work pays tribute to the music and contains only hints of the political choreography for which David Dorfman is best known.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:42AMSunday, January 8, 2012
This riveting production of a disturbingly dirty redrafting of Strindberg's "Miss Julie" derives its lifeblood from D.J. Mendel's tour-de-force turn as a gritty blue-collar worker.
SOURCE: Backstage at 02:05AMFriday, January 6, 2012
This extravagant presentation of an old Chinese play told through Chinese folk dance has more in common with Western story-ballet spectaculars than with traditional Chinese opera forms.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:06AMFriday, December 16, 2011
An undeniably unique display of physical daring, this show presents extreme athletic feats involving bungee cords, zip lines, springboards, and a rotating ladder yet is both exhilarating a…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:40AMFriday, December 9, 2011
Inspired by writings by Federico García Lorca, this debut production of AENY-El Puente is a sincere, impressionistic, sometimes static, yet often powerful portrait of life in New York.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:14AMThursday, December 8, 2011
This polished performance of Merce Cunningham's evening-length work set to a John Cage score inspired by James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" opens the famed modern dance troupe's penultimate U.…
SOURCE: Backstage at 06:12AMMonday, December 5, 2011
This rewarding production offers five extremely well-acted short plays that are based on classic fairy tales and illuminate various aspects of the dark side of human nature.
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:46AMThursday, December 1, 2011
Superbly directed and choreographed by Martha Clarke, with fascinating historically based text by Alfred Uhry, this is an enthralling dance-theater portrait of an 18th-century Shaker commu…
SOURCE: Backstage at 05:11AM 
