121 stories by "Debra Cash"
This is Michelle Dorrance's break out year, or perhaps more accurately the year people outside the intimate tap community got to know her by sight and reputation.
On Friday, three experimental artists offer a sneak peek at their work together to date, with the addition to excepts from more finished pieces.
Art helps keep the horrors in sight, so if you're in the Berkshires July 16 through 27, it will be well worth the trip to visit the Lenox Public Library and stand witness to Robin Berson's m…
Instability is key to Brian Brooks' choreographic agenda. Some of the dancers crouch on their hands and feet and are transformed into slow-moving mounts for the dancers balancing on their ba…
What Ain Gordon's play demonstrates is that even when records are indecipherable and incomplete, we still have the right, and perhaps the responsibility, to imagine what happened.
"We're in this really great place now where the music [klezmer] can sound fairly traditional in style but at the same time we can do more in-depth arrangements."
Theatre buffs who delight in miniaturization will want to reserve seats for events at the Puppet Showplace in Brookline Village.
This week, Devon Carney was named Artistic Director of Kansas City Ballet.
While I believe that merely publishing these days is an act of entrepreneurial legerdemain, I direct you to a pair of Canadian poets who have gone one step beyond.
The influence of two centuries of dandies on fashion -- and the artful, strategic, ready-for-the-paparazzi self-presentation at the heart of modern celebrity -- is on wide-ranging and colorf…
Yes, there is dance in New England this summer, but those who love motion may need to embark on a little themselves to journey further afield to watch it. The trip, I can assure you, will be…
"A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" is spectacular.
In George Balanchine's Serenade and Symphony in C and in Wayne McGregor's Chroma, architecture comes to the fore, but not exactly conveying the message that company director Mikko Nissinen s…
Simultaneously storyteller and player, ancient character and modern respondent, Denis O'Hare's performance of "An Iliad" elicits the kind of respect automatically granted this genre of deman…
Don't be late for a very important date when the Coolidge Corner Theatre hosts a Sunday morning, high-def broadcast of the Royal Ballet's production of Christopher Wheeldon's celebrated "Ali…
In a modest tweak of Dorothy Fields' lyrics to the famous Jerome Kern song, this weekend will be Boston's chance, via the Design Museum Boston, to sit yourself down, dust yourself off, and s…
It's official. The 2013 jobs report of an organization called CareerCast rated "newspaper reporter" as the worst job in America.
Maria Tallchief forever changed the idea of what it meant to see America dancing.
In her recent program at the Boston University Dance Theatre, Corbett riffed on the eerie, 1967 Diane Arbus photograph of identical twin girls in Roselle, New Jersey.
This week the Cunningham Dance Foundation released The Legacy Plan, a series of steps to document and preserve Merce Cunningham's choreographies.
You have to appreciate a guy who expressed his concern for both the drought on the Texas plains and the local arts community's drought in terms of cancelled jazz programming on WGBH and the …
Emily Johnson may be off the mainstream cultural radar, but I guarantee that is going to change, big time.
Composer James MacMillan's musical strategy in this opera is a stylistic patchwork that seems to mean to convey that each character inhabits a different, mutually misunderstood world.
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage to Richard Kostelanetz, 1988
What kind of culture is produced by a society that lives and governs itself by opinion polls?
