5 Films to See This Week in New York: “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the...
“The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” Film Forum, opens September 2Stanley Nelson’s essential documentary — which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, later opening...
View ArticleFestival/Tokyo Announces Border Fusion Theme for 2015
Japan’s largest theater and dance event, Festival/Tokyo, has announced details of its 2015 edition, including this year’s theme – “Border Fusion.” Often abbreviated to F/T, the festival is staging its...
View ArticleSpalding Gray and Oliver Sacks: A Life Interrupted, A Life Fulfilled
Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist who died on August 30 in Manhattan at the age of 82, left an extraordinary legacy in his writings — as did Spalding Gray, the famed monologist who committed suicide...
View ArticleCabanons, High on Poetic Visuals, but Low on Acrobatics
Let’s start by saying that if you are going to Cabanons by the BurenCirque expecting to see great circus acts, you will be disappointed.It does have its moment of angst and offers visual poetry — a...
View ArticleQ&A: Bass Producer Su Real on New EP “Brown Folks” that Mashes Indian Oldies...
Bass producer and DJ Su Real’s music matches the pulse of a busy Indian street, which under all the frenetic motion, adheres to a method that makes the madness functional. It clangs, twirls, and thumps...
View ArticleDam-Funk Brings Positivity Back on “Invite the Light”
When I sat down with the musician Dam-Funk at a hotel bar in Brooklyn, his drink order confused the waiter. “Can I get a Cadillac Margarita?” he asked. “Do you do margaritas here?” The waiter nodded...
View Article‘Master of Horror’ Director John Carpenter Set to Release New LP “Lost Themes...
Creepy music is to horror film what salt is to soup. And horror and science fiction film director John Carpenter, creator of cult classics such as “Halloween” (1978), “The Fog” (1980) and “The Thing”...
View ArticleThe Effortless Cool of Lizzy Mercier Descloux
If one thing can be said about Lizzy Mercier Descloux, it’s that she moved quickly. The perpetual multi-hyphenate, who passed away from cancer in 2004, is today almost completely unknown, despite her...
View ArticleFall Preview: The Musical Revivals on Broadway
The persistent chatter that Broadway is all about revivals has by now fallen away. Last season there were only five as opposed to ten original musicals and there is a good reason for that. The rate of...
View Article“Tree of Codes” Is an Inspired Idea that Doesn’t Pan Out
Flashing lights and optical tricks can’t save “Tree of Codes” from being a mess. The performance, choreographed by Wayne McGregor and featuring dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet and the Company Wayne...
View ArticleQ&A with Jane Moss: White Light Festival 2015 Brings Works by Schubert,...
The White Light Festival turns six this year, and in its 2015 edition, it will feature the works of Franz Schubert, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Adès, and John Coltrane, amongst others. This...
View Article15 Overlooked Documentaries About Art That You Need to Watch
Each year, more and more documentaries about art appear, seemingly out of nowhere. With streaming services, they are easier than ever to watch with a click of your remote or a scroll of your mouse. But...
View ArticlePeter York’s London Show Takes on Kanye West, Hipsters
Peter York is best known as, for want of a better description, a style guru. The man who chronicled the Sloane Ranger. Now he is offering us advice on how to be better and nicer people. How to select...
View ArticleDebut Performance “Atlante del gesto” at Fondazione Prada
The Rem Koolhaas-designed Fondazione Prada compound will meet its creative match in its debut performing arts project “Atlante del gesto” (Atlas of gesture).Choreographed by Virgilio Sieni, a leading...
View ArticleBroadway Fall Preview: The Plays
Premium tickets have altered the Broadway game irrevocably, coaxing marquee names to take a gander because it no longer requires a yearlong commitment to bring the production into profit. With a big...
View ArticleGlam Rock Environmentalism: Timur and the Dime Museum Bring “COLLAPSE” to BAM
“COLLAPSE,” described in turn as a “glam-rock requiem for the natural world” and a “perverse postmodern mass for a planet in crisis,” is nothing if not intriguing. First conceived for Los Angeles’s...
View ArticleBroadway Fall Preview: The Play Revivals
Perhaps reflecting the anxiety of the age, the play revivals that will populate Broadway this fall are rife with sturm-und-drang. Sometimes that sturm comes bottled up, as it does in “Old Times” and...
View ArticleNine Under-the-Radar Films to See at the New York Film Festival
On September 25, the 53rd annual New York Film Festival opens at Lincoln Center. And once again, it’s a cinema lover’s dream, offering almost too many films to process. With the correct scheduling, you...
View ArticleJodhpur RIFF 2015 Returns in its Ninth Year with Two Grammy-Winning...
Once a year, around the brightest full moon night, accomplished musicians from different parts of the world – as far and wide as Rio de Janeiro, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Ndioum in Senegal,...
View ArticleSheridan Smith Stars in “Funny Girl” in London
Unlike other classic musicals, “Funny Girl” has eluded a Broadway revival for nearly half a century. The reasons for it are clear: the libretto for the musical by Isobel Lennart has long been...
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