Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Cole Escola’s play, which imagines Mary Todd Lincoln as a frustrated cabaret singer, surprisingly pulls off stretching a stupid joke to its extremes.
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Matt Ray is a prolific songwriter and the musical nexus of New York’s alt-cabaret scene. His next project: Taylor Mac’s latest marathon performance.
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Richard Nelson’s “Our Life in Art” has been translated into Russian and French. Both times required, above all, preserving a specific sensibility.
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Sondheim was a titan of musical theater. But four recent shows onstage in New York argue for his place among classical music luminaries, too.
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Thursday, November 16, 2023
Begun to improve his own technique, piano exercises that Glass wrote over decades are the subject this month of a new book, a concert and dances.
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The staged premiere of her new work “Indra’s Net” in Amsterdam comes as a set of recordings offers a retrospective of one of our most humane artists.
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The choreographer Benjamin Millepied’s directing debut is an of-the-moment but scattered take on a classic love story.
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As the longest-running musical in Broadway history closes, Times critics with a lasting affection for the show take stock of its legacy.
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The director Phelim McDermott, who has acted like a visual translator of Glass’s music, pays tribute to the composer in their show “Tao of Glass.”
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Mary-Mitchell Campbell, the series’ new music director, will lead a restored performance of “Dear World,” starring Donna Murphy.
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“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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At New York City Ballet, Peck’s “Copland Dance Episodes” brings the composer’s three classic ballet scores under one roof, at last.
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The multihyphenate pop star will compose her first ballet score for the Fall Fashion Gala at New York City Ballet in September.
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Since his first production a quarter-century ago, the director has honed a process defined by tight schedules and bold, decisive changes.
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In Paris, a new production of “A Quiet Place” makes a strong case for a work that has long struggled to join the repertory.
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A principal dancer since 2009, Reichlen will make her final appearance in George Balanchine’s one-act “Swan Lake” on Feb. 19.
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For several years, the composer Matthew Aucoin corresponded with Sarah Ruhl about how to adapt her play into the Met Opera’s latest premiere.
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Lypsinka, the alter ego of John Epperson, a longtime pianist for Ballet Theater, will perform as part of the company’s inaugural Pride Nights.
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After a long pandemic pause, “The Phantom of the Opera” is returning to Broadway with some help from its creator.
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Francesca Zambello, who has overseen a dozen editions of the opera festival in upstate New York, will depart next summer.
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“Sun & Sea (Marina),” an operatic installation that won the top prize at the Venice Biennale, is being staged at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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This summer, three European productions, previously available to American audiences only online, were at last accessible in person.
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“What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad” is the 12th and final installment in the quiet yet sweeping “Rhinebeck Panorama.”
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Barrie Kosky’s new production for the Berliner Ensemble, at the theater where the famous work premiered, knows where to break the rules.
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021
Adam Guettel’s genre-clashing song cycle has taken on many forms. The latest: a starry online mini-series.
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Weill’s early, Weimar-era works reveal the qualities that found a natural home in his golden age American musicals.
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The production, which examines the work’s colonial legacy, opened after the far right accused the Paris Opera of “antiracism gone mad.”
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“Shipwreck,” a fantasia about white liberals and the president’s infamous dinner with James Comey, has been adapted into an audio play.
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Uncertainty about the coronavirus and the challenge of protecting audiences and artists is prompting many prominent presenters to wait till next year.
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Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl have adapted “Eurydice,” her play about the Orpheus story, for Los Angeles Opera. Next stop: New York.
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Love it or hate it, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is one of the most popular of all time. Before the new movie adaptation comes out, catch up on its four-decade history.
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A roundup of events in every borough, from the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Manhattan to the annual Holiday Train Show in the Bronx.
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Among the highlights are a commission for Bill T. Jones, a staging of Monteverdi by Pierre Audi, and Alex Lawther in “Hamlet.”
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The French wunderkind’s books have quickly become magnets for the stage. Adaptations of “History of Violence” and “The End of Eddy” will play New York simultaneously.
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The professional and personal have blurred for young cast members of Matthew Lopez’s play, which offers a communion with victims of the AIDS crisis.
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Monday, June 3, 2019
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
David Binder, for his first festival as artistic director, has assembled a roster of Brooklyn Academy of Music newcomers.
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