93 stories by "Lisa Jo Sagolla"
Shantala Shivalingappa is a beguiling dancer, and though her evening of four solos includes a work by Pina Bausch, the modest program leaves one wanting.
Celebrating its 65th anniversary, the Limón Dance Company is offering superb renditions of works by José Limón, Jiri Kylián, and Rodrigo Pederneiras.
More experimental play than dance-theater work, “Beginning of the End of the…” may thrill Pirandello fans but not followers of its creator, David Gordon.
Written and performed by Alicia Barnatchez and Erin Leigh Schmoyer, "Ye Elizabeths" is a teasingly short musical about history that leaves you wanting more.
The ingenious Alex Webb does double duty, as writer and actor, in "Amelia," a riveting Civil War play made even more affecting by its site-specific setting.
An academic exercise in opaque theatrical symbolism, "Here I Go" is 60 minutes of the rambling thoughts of a suicidal grandmother who idolizes Dolly Parton.
You have to be a real nit-picker to find anything wrong with American Ballet Theatre's lavish production of "La Bayadere," choreography by Natalia Makarova.
A spunky little world premiere musical, "Jack's Back!" is lots more fun and far less disturbing than expected, considering its subject is Jack the Ripper.
A long overdue tribute to choreographer Jack Cole, "Heat Wave" is an entertaining revue of Chet Walker's reconstructions of dances from Hollywood musicals.
Adapted by Richard Tulloch from a Guus Kuijer novel, "The Book of Everything" proffers the most worthwhile 135 minutes you are likely to spend in a theater.
Ballet Hispanico presents a smart work by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, an uninspired premiere by Ronald K. Brown, and a flop by artistic director Eduardo Vilaro.
Rock Week sent "The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd rolling out of the contest on the popular ABC competition show.
Choreographed by Ji?í Kylián and Michael Schumacher and performed by former members of Nederlands Dans Theater, “Last Touch First” is a triumph.
Super Bowl star Donald Driver borrowed from Gene Simmons' playbook to emerge victorious on Rock Week. Melissa Gilbert suffers an injury.
Soap actor Jack Wagner is cut from the competition while Seal and Rascal Flatts provide musical entertainment on the ABC competition show.
Katherine Jenkins and William Levy score the first perfect tens of the season on ABC's popular competition show.
Tennis great Martina Navratilova is the first to get the boot on ABC's popular competition show.
In “Restless Eye,” modern choreographer David Neumann puts the responsibility for making meaning out of his dances squarely on the audience’s shoulders.
Pan Asian Rep's "Baudelaire: La Mort" is an impressionistic dance-theater mix of recitation, butoh, flamenco, and atmospheric music, with a beguiling cast.
This concert revival of “Li’l Abner” highlights the wit of the Panama-Frank book and Johnny Mercer’s lyrics and the appeal of Gene de Paul’s swinging score.
Welsh opera singer Katherine Jenkins stepped out as the one to beat in the March 19 season premiere of ABC's hit reality show.
New Federal Theatre’s production of Jeffrey Sweet’s play about a court-martial of black WACs hits hard at our sense of ethics but is emotionally distancing.
At Lincoln Center for the first time, Paul Taylor Dance Company presents masterful choreography and stunning star dancing marred by weaknesses in its corps.
Vocalist Napua Davoy's one-woman autobiographical show "Stella Rising," at Pan Asian Rep, might work better as a cabaret evening than as a musical play.
In Frigid New York's "Little Lady," movement artist Sandrine Lafond conjures a creature that is too strange to like but too expertly rendered to dismiss.
