Reviews
PARIS — The Palais Garnier was packed last week for the world premiere of a new production of the ballet “Boléro” co-created by artist Marina Abramovic. As the curtain was about to be drawn, ARTINFO France noticed Kanye West seated...
When someone in a corps de ballet gets a shot in the spotlight and shines, it can be the stuff of legend: a star is born. That’s unusual enough, but what happened at the David H. Koch Theater on Friday night is even less common. The someone who emerged from...
"Eurydice," Sarah Ruhl's playful retelling of the Orpheus myth from a female perspective, has returned from that underworld where plays go between revivals. It seems as though someone is always summoning this one up, and the current production at South Coast...
Think of the most troubled women in theatre and Medea comes pretty high on the list. A byword for narcissism and violence, she is abandoned by her husband, and lashes out by killing their children. Yet to hear Rachael Stirling talk about the character she is...
For the record, Akram Khan has not spent the last couple of months obsessing over the possible reasons for why NBC edited out his eight-minute dance about mortality in its coverage of the Olympic Games opening ceremony, using the time for Ryan Seacrest to...
The country’s insatiable appetite for energy powers Dan O’Neil’s “Victor Frange Presents Gas,” a diffuse and fitfully insightful eco-comedy from the Incubator Arts Project . With one roaring engine. The production grows from an amusing premise: that Georg...
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On a recent afternoon the four cast members of the satirical revue “Forbidden Broadway” were running through a number sending up the frenetic hard sell of the hit musical “Newsies.”
There were lots of broad street-urchin...
At 80, South African playwright Athol Fugard is still turning out plays at a rate that would be daunting for a dramatist half his age. A crucial witness to the warping effect of apartheid on his country's soul, Fugard has continued in the post-apartheid era...
Director Matt McKenzie fails to master the sprawl in “Sweet Thursday,” a world premiere adaptation of John Steinbeck’s 1954 novel, now at Pacific Resident Theatre.
A sequel to Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row,” “Thursday” centers, once again, on marine biologist...
Aha! The choreography is intentionally clunky. The program notes say so.That explains why in the first musical number of “Dogs,” at the New Ohio Theater, the cast look so much like those sweet men in “The Full Monty” — everyday guys turned awkward strippers...
