Theater: News, Information and Reviews
FOR its second program at the Joyce, the Pilobolus Dance Company gives us Jonathan Wolken's "Razor : Mirror," which is neither cutting nor reflective. It seems that Safe Horizon, described as the nation's leading victim assistance organization...
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:09:27 -0400
WAR, love and more are treated in deceptively lighthearted fashion in "Scenes From an Execution," Howard Barker's play about a sexually liberated sixth-century Venetian artist who runs afoul of the authorities. That (fictional) artist is...
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:09:27 -0400
TO say that Alan Cumming makes quite an entrance as the god Dionysus in the production of "The Bacchae," now being presented by the Lincoln Center Festival, is an understatement. Slowly descending to the stage while hanging upside down, the actor...
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:21:01 -0400
WITHOUT doubt I have not been so moved - literally moved - as an audience member since Trevor Nunn's first London production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber mu sical "Cats." Then it was by means of a revolve that had the audience circumnavigating the...
Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:21:01 -0400
THE Pilobolus Dance Theatre is ensconced again at the Joyce, a sign that summer has definitely come - even if the troupe's season has come a few weeks earlier than usual. The premiere attraction of its first program - Michael Tracy's "Magica...
Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:12:40 -0400
WHEN it comes to the Broadway box office, the current Mrs. Tom Cruise doesn't have a patch on the former Mrs. Tom Cruise. Katie Holmes, who'll star in the revival of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" this fall, may be a nice little actress, but so...
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:54:53 -0400
WHAT a joy Monday to see the return, after five years, of American Ballet Theatre's "The Merry Widow" - a fun, faintly sexy and nostalgic postcard from another age. A froufrou of skirts, a glitter of medals, a swoon of seductive feminine guile, a...
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:54:53 -0400
SUN-struck already? Well, you can either increase the SPF in your sunscreen or duck indoors with SPF, a k a the Summer Play Festival. The fifth season kicks off tonight and runs through July 27, under the auspices of the Public Theater, with seven...
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:41:48 -0400
'ALL of our problems come down to communication," declares Stu (Gian Murray Gianino) in "Stitching," Anthony Neilson's play about a couple coping with an unplanned pregnancy. Well, yes and no. Stu and his girlfriend, Abby (Meital Dohan)...
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:41:48 -0400
THE most shocking thing about Judith Thomp son's "Palace of the End," about the horrors of the Iraqi war, is how not shocking it is. The play is a triptych of monologues inspired by three real-life figures: Lynndie England, the young soldier who...
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:15:40 -0400