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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Juliet Stevenson Returns to ‘The Doctor,’ and the New York Stage by Roslyn Sulcas

The British actress is reprising her role as the Jewish physician at the center of an ethical drama. “It’s like a tailored suit,” the director Robert Icke said.

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Sunday, June 11, 2023

Wayne McGregor’s new ‘Untitled, 2023’ at the Royal Ballet by Roslyn Sulcas

Wayne McGregor’s new ballet, “Untitled, 2023,” gives equal weight to Carmen Herrera’s visual design and Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s music.

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Friday, June 2, 2023

“The Motive and the Cue” Asks What Makes a Great Performance by Roslyn Sulcas

“The Motive and the Cue,” a new play in London, imagines fraught behind-the-scenes maneuvering by John Gielgud, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor during rehearsals for a classic Broadw…

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Saturday, May 6, 2023

Choreographed Formality, Like an Elaborate Masque by Roslyn Sulcas

As in ballet, the coronation provided spectacle and beauty tempered by discipline and focus.

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‘Like He Was Going to Live Forever’: Making Jerome Robbins’s Last Ballet by Roslyn Sulcas

His exuberant “Brandenburg,” which returns to City Ballet this month, was made near the end of his life, when he was physically and emotionally frail.

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Chris Wheeldon’s ‘Dangerous and Exciting’ Adventure at City Ballet by Roslyn Sulcas

Wheeldon is back at New York City Ballet, where he honed his choreographic skills, making a non-narrative work set to Schoenberg.

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Friday, April 21, 2023

Benjamin Millepied Uses Movement to Reinvent ‘Carmen’ on Camera by Roslyn Sulcas

The choreographer is trying his hand at filmmaking with an experiment that merges drama, dance and music.

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Friday, April 14, 2023

Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality by Roslyn Sulcas

In Gregory Maqoma’s “Cion,” performed by the Vuyani Dance Theater at the Joyce, the performers offer images of collective lamentation, prayer and hope.

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Sunday, March 19, 2023

Review: A Dance Gushes With an Outpouring of the Inner Self by Roslyn Sulcas

Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber seem to have had a thousand ideas for “Pit.” All of them appear to have been included.

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story by Roslyn Sulcas

In “Broken Chord,” the choreographer Gregory Maqoma and the composer Thuthuka Sibisi consider the journey of a South African choir that traveled to England in the 19th century.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Vail Dance Festival’s Season to Feature New Work by 10 Choreographers by Roslyn Sulcas

A group of eclectic performers will gather to perform new and old dances. Adji Cissoko, a member of Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, will be the artist in residence.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

‘Create, Share, Unite’: A French Choreographer’s Vision by Roslyn Sulcas

Mehdi Kerkouche, who comes from the commercial dance world, has been tapped to run an important public institution, the National Choreographic Center in Créteil.

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Thursday, February 23, 2023

Four Rising Theater Stars to Watch This Spring by Roslyn Sulcas and Rhoda Feng

These actors turned playwrights all excavate memories and meaning from their lives in creating these four shows, which arrive in New York in the coming months.

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

What to See This Spring in NYC: Broadway Shows, Concerts and More by Steven McElroy, Joshua Barone, Siobhan Burke, Jon Pareles, Brian Seibert, Lindsay Zoladz and Roslyn Sulcas

“Life of Pi” and Laura Linney on Broadway, Lise Davidsen at the Met Opera, SZA on tour: Here’s what we’re looking forward to this season.

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Sunday, February 5, 2023

Review: Pam Tanowitz’s Witty Dance Secrets in London by Roslyn Sulcas

Her new work for the Royal Ballet, “Secret Things,” is both pedestrian and poetic, a portal into the practices and collective memories of ballet.

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Thursday, January 26, 2023

When a Spice Girl Met a Contemporary Dancer by Roslyn Sulcas

Melanie Chisholm has collaborated with the choreographer Jules Cunningham on “How Did We Get Here?,” a dance piece exploring what the body holds.

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Monday, January 23, 2023

Filming Eugene O’Neill When the Elements (and Investors) Don’t Cooperate by Roslyn Sulcas

Starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris, Jonathan Kent’s adaptation of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” started production, only to lose key financing.

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

A Show About Colonial Power, Born From the Freedom to Make Mistakes by Roslyn Sulcas

“Houseboy” took shape at the South Africa-based Center for the Less Good Idea, where artists are allowed to follow their own impulses.

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Friday, October 28, 2022

José Martinez Named New Director of Paris Opera Ballet by Roslyn Sulcas and Laura Cappelle

Martinez, once a member of the company’s troupe and a former leader of the National Dance Company of Spain, will take up the position in December.

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Friday, October 21, 2022

In London, Massed Human Misery and Communal Revelations by Roslyn Sulcas

Crystal Pite’s “Light of Passage” at the Royal Ballet takes on big issues: refugees, life and death. At Ballet Black, Gregory Maqoma shines.

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Friday, September 23, 2022

Love and Death in Paris, With an Assist From Star-Crossed Verona by Roslyn Sulcas

Benjamin Millepied’s L.A. Dance Project presents a “Romeo and Juliet” with same-sex lovers. And at Paris Opera Ballet, Alan Lucien Oyen goes Bauschian.

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Monday, September 19, 2022

The Choreography of Public Mourning by Roslyn Sulcas

The events around Queen Elizabeth’s death have unfolded with an astonishing amount of formal, choreographed movement.

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Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Alan Cumming Uses Dance to Get at the Truth of Robert Burns by Roslyn Sulcas

“Burn” is an unlikely hybrid: A movement-focused show performed by a famous actor with no dance training, about a man whose medium was words.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

‘Giselle’: Remaking (and Updating) a Classic and Finding a Hit by Roslyn Sulcas

The choreographer Akram Khan and Tamara Rojo, English National Ballet’s artistic director, talk about their “Giselle,” coming to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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Friday, June 3, 2022

Review: Ballet Is Spectacle in ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ by Roslyn Sulcas

Christopher Wheeldon’s full-length work for the Royal Ballet succeeds best when not meeting the demands of storytelling.

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Tuesday, May 24, 2022

‘A Vocal Figure Skater’ Makes His Mark as an Operatic Hamlet by Roslyn Sulcas

The British tenor Allan Clayton’s portrayal of the title role in Brett Dean’s opera is personal, emotional — and a breakthrough.

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Monday, May 9, 2022

Susan Jaffe to Be Next Artistic Director at American Ballet Theater by Roslyn Sulcas

A former star ballerina with the company, Jaffe will assume the reins after the 30-year tenure of Kevin McKenzie.

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Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Stepping Into the Balanchine-Stravinsky Continuum by Roslyn Sulcas

Silas Farley’s dance for City Ballet’s Stravinsky festival has a score by David K. Israel that builds on a poem Balanchine wrote and set to music for Stravinsky.

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Monday, May 2, 2022

A Ballerina Harnesses Her Wild Imagination to Choreography by Roslyn Sulcas

“There are no rules,” says Janie Taylor, a former City Ballet principal, whose dances are featured in the L.A. Dance Project’s Joyce Theater season.

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Thursday, April 28, 2022

New York City Ballet Celebrates Stravinsky by Roslyn Sulcas

On the 50th anniversary of New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky Festival, remembering a collaboration for the ages: Balanchine and Stravinsky.

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Thursday, March 24, 2022

Vail Dance Festival to Feature Roman Mejia and Caili Quan by Roslyn Sulcas

Mejia and Quan are the artists in residences at this summer’s festival, which will also feature new works by Justin Peck, Pam Tanowitz and others.

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic