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MOSCOW – The award ceremony for the ballet world’s most prestigious accolade, the Prix Benois de la Danse for outstanding choreographic achievements, took place on May 21 in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater.This year the ballet “Oscar” went to the Bolshoi’s...
“I’m sorry but we’re going to have to ask you to leave,” was the first line that David Hyde Pierce ever uttered on a Broadway stage. It was thirty years ago in “Beyond Therapy,” a black comedy by Christopher Durang, in which he played the small role of...
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was in two places at once on Wednesday night. In Beijing, barred from leaving the country, and in the leafy London borough of Hampstead - on stage. Such a breaking of boundaries has come to define Ai. The...
Artist Nick Cave, best known for his wearable fabric sculpture Soundsuits, is transforming New York's Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall with a herd of thirty bright and whimsical life-sized horses. The horses, performed by dancers from the...
Amid New York’s storied theater scene, few festivals offer an approach to the stage quite like Under The Radar. Held annually at the Public Theater, the two-week event offers audiences an opportunity to sample independent productions from an international...
To create the Paris National Opera’s first new production of Bizet’s “Carmen” in 20 years, director Yves Beaunesne wanted “feelings, not folklore.” His unconventional staging of the opera, which runs through December 29, has elicited a full-...
When Nathan Englander began writing his new play “The Twenty-Seventh Man,” it not only represented the fiction writer’s first foray into theater, it answered one of his own longstanding questions. “I haven’t really said this out loud yet,” Englander told...
Of the 39 productions that opened on Broadway in 2008, just three were directed by women. This season that number doubles to six. Off-Broadway, another eight productions will be helmed by women this year — a new record. Of course, it goes without saying...
Merging three of Shakespeare’s plays into one immersive epic, director Ivo van Hove’s “Roman Tragedies” examines the political drama that consumes us through 24-hour media. The production, from theater company Toneelgroep Amsterdam, where van Hove ...
If Martha Graham’s midtown studios were the birthplace of Modern dance, the genesis of Postmodern and Contemporary dance might be traced back to a church in Greenwich Village. In 1962, Judson Dance Theater, a collaborative of choreographers, artists, and...
