Cirque Du Soleil’s Luzia By Eugene Paul That great treat, fantastic Cirque du Soleil is back in New York as part of its North American tour under the brilliant white and gold Grand Chapiteau, a circus tent so big it not only hosts two thousand people as audience but also is a village…
Journalist and moderator Ruthie Fierberg, co-writer David Hein, co-writer Irene Sankoff, performer Happy McPartlin, performer Jim Walton, performer Julie Reiber. Come From Away: A Broadway 2nd Anniversary Celebration by Deirdre Donovan Although a late-winter storm covered the city’s streets and sidewalks with slush on March 3rd, it didn’t stop some…
L Tyler Fauntleroy and Kim Sullivan photos by Gerry Goodstein Looking For Leroy R. Pikser This two-man play by Larry Muhammed is a tribute to the late Imamu Amiri Baraka, icon of the Black theatre and Black arts movements, whose contributions still inform our consciousness. A word commonly used these days, though almost…
Left to right: Matthew Saldivar, Betsy Wolfe, Jared Grimes, Max Kumangai, Harriet D. Foy in Yes I Can: The Sammy Davis, Jr., Songbook Yes I Can: The Sammy Davis, Jr. Songbook by Deirdre Donovan Black History month ends on a high note, with the 92nd Street Y’s vibrant tribute to Sammy Davis, Jr.,…
Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company in Intersections. Photo by Steven Pisano Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company: Intersections By R. Pikser This 20th anniversary concert of Daniel Gwirtzman’s was a retrospective of pieces created between 1999 and 2018. The pieces were extracted from their original ballets and put together for this hour and a half concert,…
Ashleigh Pearce (center) balances above the audience as company member Jacob Randell (left) assists her from below. Photo Credit: Maike Schulz Gravity and Other Myths: A Simple Space By R Pikser A Simple Space is the second production of the group Gravity and Other Myths. We can only hope the first production,…
E – Photographed by Solwazi Afi Olusola- R. Pikser Why do we go to see dance or to listen to music? One reason is to admire the skill of those who do what we cannot do: We go to witness others being alive, so that we, too, may partake of their vitality. But…
Jessica Fontana, Ann Harada, Lilli Cooper, Santino Fontana, Vishal Vaidya by Julia Polinsky Lyrics & Lyricists at the 92nd Street Y has long been the gold standard for celebrations of the American songbook. They’re lovely anthology shows: a couple of hours of superb (mostly) songs, sung by terrific (mostly) singers, backed by…
Photo by Bjorn Bolinder Review by Julia Polinsky Broken Box Mime Theater has crafted an evening of terrific stories out of nothing but their bodies, their mime-mask faces, and a couple of boxes. Even if the prospect of an evening of mime, mime, and more mime makes you cringe, give it a chance and go…
John Noble photos by Shirin Tinati by Julia Polinsky Ensemble for the Romantic Century creates extraordinary staged readings/theatrical multimedia concerts of chamber music, melding multiple art forms into good drama – most of the time. Maestro may be the least successful of the ensemble’s excursions into that fusion of arts and artists…