28 stories by "Iris Fanger"
The irony implied by Junk after the curtain goes down is the realization that white collar crime does pay.
Two works by one of the most-in-demand choreographers of our time received powerhouse performances from the New York City Ballet.
Sweat and Indecent serve as forceful reminders that art matters -- as if proof was needed.
Few companies can do pageantry quite like ABT, buoyed by its vast resources as well as on this occasion the company's desire to celebrate its 75th anniversary with panache.
Today's Broadway is at its best presenting blockbuster spectacles like Wolf Hall and An American in Paris.
Don't miss the "joyous shout and ringing cheer" of this delightfully boisterous version of The Mikado.
The Sarasota Ballet will make its New England debut at Jacob's Pillow in August with a program that includes two works of mid-20th century choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton.
Brooke Adams portrays Winnie as the ultimate smiley face; her husband, Tony Shalhoub, is little more than another prop weathering her on-going babble.
An evening with Pilobolus is among the most viewer-friendly of dance experiences.
Incomparable opera diva Renée Fleming makes her debut as a stage actress -- playing an impossible opera diva -- in playwright Joe DiPietro's sliver of a comedy Living on Love.
I was mesmerized by the evocative stage pictures and the straight-at-the-audience, presentational mode of the actors, whose facial expressions and gestures so viscerally conveyed the emotion…
Were there no men available for the roles of Touchstone and Jaques, or was the intention to showcase more of the gifted women who are members of the ASP troupe?
I cannot prove the following judgment because I have not seen every dancer on the globe, but I believe that the members of the Alvin Ailey troupe are among the best in the world.
"The Shape She Makes" proffers an eloquent fusion of language and movement that pushes the boundaries of dance and theater without embracing the opaqueness that marks so many experimental pr…
I do not remember disliking the characters in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" as much as I did in this production.
As for pulling out themes from Bill T. Jones' gathering of tales, well, the bedrock of human existence seems to be very much on his mind -- life and death, landscape and memory.
Director Melia Bensussen handles the dialogue skillfully, but she also has an eye for creating vivid stage pictures which reinforce Chekhov's dramatic themes.
The gem of the weekend was an exhilarating production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," directed by Julie Taymor in the extravagantly imaginative style she has developed over nearly three deca…
People come to The Christmas Revels to immerse themselves in memories of holidays past, before Toys R Us and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" co-opted the celebration. This year, as in years…
Benjamin Evett as Arthur and Erica Spyres as Guenevere turn in solid performances, dependable anchors for a cast that does the best that it can in a drab, bargain basement production.
I was mesmerized by the coherence of the shifting patterns, their ideas so clearly presented, even though the work by no means provided more than a suggestion of a story.
As might be expected from a choreographer who has created 140 dances, the varied program served as an annotated guide to Paul Taylor's inquisitive and often dangerous imagination.
