By R. Pikser This tribute to the music of the late Iannis Xenakis offers insight to the current approach to music and movement A director, a dancer, and a percussionist have collaborated in Project IX – Pleiades, a tribute to the late composer Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), which had its world premiere in Yokohama, Japan…
Drama Desk and Tonys to come……………… By Jeanne Lieberman THE DRAMA LEAGUE ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 80th ANNUAL AWARDS “A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER” NAMED DISTINGUISHED MUSICAL “ALL THE WAY” NAMED DISTINGUISHED PLAY “HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH” NAMED DISTINGUISHED REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL “THE GLASS MENAGERIE” NAMED DISTINGUISHED…
Eileen Rivera_Hubert Point Du-Jour photos by Paula Court by EUGENE PAUL There’s a grungy someone lying supine at the edge of the stage, nose in the air, ankles crossed, at ease in John McDermott’s vigorously suggestive, multileveled setting , suggestive of what, we are wondering until we are brought up short by the…
Carol Schultz as Mrs. Malaprop and Jessica Love as Lydia Languish photo by Al Foote III The Rivals by Eugene Paul There’s a persistent literary rumor that Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s perilously near fatuous hit play, The Rivals, was a particular favorite of George Washington’s. Yes, that George, “The Father of Our Country”. Doesn’t…
Bass: Pete Donovan; Piano: Jeffrey Klitz; Clarke Thorell; Leslie Kritzer; Ted Sperling; Sax, Todd Groves; Violin, Antoine Silverman Photos by Richard Termine Lyrics & Lyricists at 92nd Street Y – Ziegfeld Girl: The Many Faces of Fanny Brice by Linda Amiel Burns This is the first time that the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics and…
(CLOCKWISE) LINDSAY NICOLE CHAMBERS, SCOTT RICHARD FOSTER, MARCUS STEVENS AND NATALIE CHARLÉ ELLIS (KNEELING) IN A SCENE FROM THE ORIGINAL CAST OF FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING. PHOTO BY CAROL ROSEGG. Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging By Michall Jeffers It’s considered an honor for a show or performer to be skewered by Forbidden Broadway which has…
Marisa Tomei and Michael C Hall Photos by Joan Marcus In spite of its misleading title, Will Eno’s The Realistic Joneses is a charming new play that is bound to tickle your funny bone and make you think twice about the people who live next door. Directed by Sam Gold, and featuring a top-notch cast,…
Daniel Radcliffe photos by Johan Persson The Cripple of Inishmaan By: Eric Grunin Let’s get the most important thing out of the way first: this is an excellent production of a very good play, and you should all go see it. Don’t be scared off by the tragic aspects, because in all likelihood you’ll…
Chris O’Dowd and James Franco in Of Mice and Men (photos by Richard Phibbs) OF MICE AND MEN by EUGENE PAUL If you’ve managed to keep up with the smoothly ongoing hype machine which has propelled James Franco into the front ranks of media stars you are also aware that New York City police…
By Eugene Paul Audra McDonald Photos by Evgenia Eliseeva Beg. Borrow. Steal. In a breathtaking leap, famed Audra McDonald has vaulted past anything she’s ever done to this pinnacle of performance art, her portrait of Billie Holiday, the mesmerizing, tragic figure who haunts us still with the beauty and wreckage of her life, and…