Sunday, July 31, 2022
Real experts like E. M. Forester and Virginia Woolf knew what reviewers go out of their way explaining in wordy detail: there is no such thing as a simple plot. Like offline real life, a…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 05:28PMMonday, July 18, 2022
Co-Creator/Co-Choreographer/Director/Producer/Lead Performer Cassandra Rosebettle and Co- Creator/Composer/Librettist JL Marlor describe The Final Veil as a movement opera. Unlike trad…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:26PMMonday, May 9, 2022
Hopefully, with a lot of numerousness, the truer story of women in history and the arts will continue. #MeToo and COVID partially started this reckoning, and these two recent works are …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 11:14AMThursday, March 24, 2022
Does love make the world go round? Is there such a thing as a random encounter? In 1897, Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler asked these questions in Reigen (Round Dance). which in …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:00PMWednesday, March 2, 2022
It was hard not thinking about what was happening in Ukraine (the “The” was dropped when independence was declared in 1991) when J2 Spotlight Theater’s captivating revival of A Day i…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 04:41PMMonday, February 14, 2022
The Jetsons had Astro. Doctor Who K-9 and Karvanista. Boxey adopted robotic Daggit after the first Battlestar Galactica survived the Cylon attack but the poor kid’s pet didn’t. Th…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:05PMSunday, January 2, 2022
Recipes, coffee franchises, fashion, even outfits worn to museum galas are labeled “iconic.” The performing arts have no shortage of them either. Towards the end of 2021, two very di…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:20PMThursday, November 4, 2021
Following this unprecedented time of isolation, the United Solo Theatre Festival 2021 is back at Theatre Row. On October 28, choreographer, teacher, and gifted visual memoirist Lynn N…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 05:54PMSunday, October 25, 2020
Part street theatre, part walking tour and all fun, Bated Breath Theatre Company’s, Voyeur: The Windows of Toulouse-Lautrec uses the West Village as its stage. Extended through Nove…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 09:57PMThursday, March 5, 2020
Ivan Ilyich Golovin died a hard death. Judgement of the Imperial Court official’s soul is left to his creator – Leo Tolstoy – whose edicts are more dogmatic than any Supreme Being…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:42PMSaturday, February 22, 2020
Neither Michael (Imana Breaux) nor Sean David (Adrain Washington) would recognize their present-day San Francisco hometown. The aspiring artists’ relationship, told in Ntozake Shang…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:35PMSunday, February 2, 2020
“DO NOT FEED THE SWANS” reads the sign posted at the edge of the lake The Prince (James Lovell) staggers towards. Drunk, unhappy and unloved, he’s ready to end it all when The Swa…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:41PMMonday, January 27, 2020
Imagine being a primarily self-taught scientist who wrote several almanacs, built a clock that ran 50 years, corresponded with Thomas Jefferson and was so brilliant performing measureme…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 09:41PMMonday, January 20, 2020
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) approximates that the Bard wrote Timon of Athens and King Lear between 1604-1606. Lear is a masterpiece about dysfunctional families, abuse of p…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 08:44PMSunday, December 29, 2019
Being the reviewer is fun stuff but can be awkward – particularly when covering children’s theatre, when the only reactions that matter most are from those wearing glittery unicorn ho…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 08:31PMTuesday, December 10, 2019
2020 marks the centennial of Clarice Lispector’s birth. The Ukrainian-Jewish refugee who settled in Brazil has long been acclaimed as a feminist trailblazer in male dominated South…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:13PMThursday, November 28, 2019
The November 26, 2019 publication of The UN environment programme Emissions Gap Report 2019 confirms yet again that Earth is in serious trouble. Findings directed specifically at th…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:35AMMonday, November 18, 2019
“From my childhood I have no happy memories. I don’t mean to say that I never, in all those years, felt any happiness or joy. But suffering is all-consuming: it somehow gets rid of an…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 09:50PMSunday, November 17, 2019
DruidShaekespeare’s Richard III is a bruising experience, which is as it should be. The Irish troupe’s contribution to the tenth anniversary season of Lincoln Center’s White L…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 03:28PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Historic events impact lives. There are the famous examples of Walt Whitman’s Civil War poetry, Abraham Zapruder’s home movie of the events in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963 and…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 09:39PMSunday, October 27, 2019
Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation is review-proof. Creator/Writer/Director Gerard Alessandrini started parodying The Great White Way in 1982, and The Triad Theatre (158 West 72nd St…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 07:16PMSunday, October 20, 2019
The happiest and worst memories are those that last, re-playing over and over in one’s head. Movies have the same effect, like smiling when thinking about Han Solo winking at Princess Le…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:33PMFriday, October 18, 2019
Walking to The Shed, NYC’s newest cultural center on West 30th Street and 11th Avenue, is a visual lesson in urban planning. After exiting the A train on 34th Street at the eyesore …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 11:12PMSunday, September 8, 2019
“What did you do on your summer vacation?” is a big conversation starter this time of year Dancers dance, whether on tour, as featured guests at festivals, or for members of American…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 01:51PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
Like many musicals, Felix Starro, opening Ma-Yi Theatre Company’s 30th anniversary season at Theatre Row, is about the tenuous connection between family and faith. What makes Feli…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:02PMSaturday, August 24, 2019
My first reaction to Good Morning America anchor Lara Spencer’s insensitive remarks about young Prince George taking ballet lessons was primal outrage. Ballet is one of my “things” �…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 11:18PMThursday, August 15, 2019
Arabesque: “One of the basic poses in ballet, arabesque takes its name from a form of Moorish ornament. In ballet it is a position of the body, in profile, supported on one leg, which c…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:57PMSaturday, August 10, 2019
Since there is no longer a Lincoln Center Festival (the moral being never hire a former college president who believed locals could summer in Salzburg or other pricey European festivals j…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 02:35AMThursday, July 18, 2019
A delightful part of ballet history was at the Joyce July 7-14. The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability. It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 12:26AMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Even if King Arthur didn’t return to the aid of Great Britain during World War II, other heroes like Wonder Woman, Captain America, Sherlock Holmes and The Scarlet Pimpernel aided th…
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:46PMMonday, June 17, 2019
It’s been 30 years since photographer Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) and choreographer Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) died from AIDS. The June-long celebration of civil rights and respect …
SOURCE: stagebiz.com at 10:44PM 
