 I've always known that the David H Koch Theater, once known as The New York State Theater, was made to George Balanchine's specifications. Still, until sitting down to speak with Thomas…
 My interest in theater, and acting, came from what I perceived as an intellectual limitation in ballet, where training is relegated to silence. While discussions of technique and aesthe…
Geraldine Realigned Drives from Gay Place to Gay Place and You're in the Car Too ostensibly follows a drag queen, Geraldine, on a road trip working her way through a list of great American g…
A few pages into the script of Peregrine Teng Heard's" playwright and artistic director of The Associates Theater Ensemble" newest play Redemption Story, I could sense its implicit political…
 "Banality of Evil, as a phrase," Jesse Freedman the Artistic Director of Meta-Phys Ed. told me on the phone last week, each of us speaking from our respective Brooklyn apartments, "is m…
If it weren't for my erudite Anglophile cousin, I would never have known to see Lucy Prebble's The Effect at The Shed (from March 3-March 31). An early Prebble fan, she one day turned on I H…
​​ The first time I saw David Greenspan perform was in Adrian Einspanier's Lunch Bunch this past spring at the 122 Community Center in the East Village. I didn't know of him or…
Were they bearing their teeth in preparation to kill? Screaming silently in agony? Conjuring lost joy of their youth?
Adaku's forced departure forever alters her connection to reality " she is absorbed into the unknown, which marks the start of our inquiry. Her trauma, epistemically, is our starting point.�…
This fall, NYCB kicked off the celebration of their 75th anniversary dedicating the entire season to the work of George Balanchine, the company's co-founder and artistic realizer. On the nig…
Active reflection and associations should comprise our meditative state. If there were moments during the piece that disturbed us, we should return to the breathing exercise to find calm.Â
Edelman always wanted to be white. 'I know, I know. Dream achieved!' he says.
How for the next few weeks these actors get to tackle conflicts onstage and then return to their everyday lives, undeniably altered. Meanwhile, before me, a performance was taking place. We …
There are those cultural events that feel too good to be true " many stars align to create a perfectly satisfying contribution, almost all-encompassing in its thoughtoutness.
Pain has been felt in the halls of Balanchine's house, but joy and beauty exist too. Neither outweighs the other.