Top 6 European Gigs for January: Hozier and Corrs to Libertines
Singer-songwriter Hozier will take you to church. Members of fellow Irish act the Corrs will reunite on stage after a decade apart, as will British band the Libertines.Patty Griffin gives a good name...
View ArticleFive Must-See Shows on London Stage: From Guys and Dolls to Ralph Fiennes via...
From a revival of “Guys and Dolls,” one of the best-loved musicals, to a new full-length work by the acclaimed playwright Caryl Churchill, January is a promising start to 2016 on the West End...
View ArticleQ&A: Lucinda Childs On Working With James Turrell and Philip Glass
Postmodern dance choreographer Lucinda Childs began her career as a member of the Judson Dance Theatre (1962-1964) in New York, renowned for its experimentalism, where trained and untrained dancers...
View ArticleThe "Fabulous Invalid" No More: Broadway’s Boom Continues
For decades Broadway was commonly referred to as “The Fabulous Invalid.” Not anymore. She ended 2015 dancing in the aisles to the ring of cash registers tallying an unprecedented bonanza, with ticket...
View Article“Hail, Caesar!” – Counting Down to Berlinale 2016
The first major film festival in Europe kicks off next month, just four weeks after the Golden Globes and finishing a week ahead of the Oscars. Opening February 11, the 66th Annual Berlin Film Festival...
View ArticlePreview: ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival 2016
Conceived in 1984 by Viennese producer and artistic director Karl Regensburger and Brazilian choreographer Ismael Ivo, the international dance festival ImPulsTanz has been taking place annually. Taking...
View ArticleDavid Bowie’s “Blackstar” Is His Best Album in Three Decades: Review
David Bowie’s new album is his best in a very long time, at least since the mainstream “Let’s Dance” in 1983, or even since the experimental “Low” in 1977. This latest one is called ★, or “Blackstar”...
View Article“Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art” Rehashes a Tired Tale
The first part of the title of “Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art,” which opens at the IFC Center on January 8, comes from the artist Michael Heizer, who is quoted as claiming the term for himself...
View ArticleHistory of Violence: Benjamín Naishtat’s “El Moviemiento”
The scars left by Juan Manuel de Rosas are still felt across all of Argentina. Despite the historical reputation of the 19th-century army leader, a nationalist who ruled the country during its...
View ArticleTributes Paid to Classical Music Maverick Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez, who died this week at his home in Baden Baden at the age of 90, once wrote “Creation exists only in the unforeseen made necessary.”“With this belief as his paradigm, Pierre Boulez has...
View ArticleQ&A with Tony Roberts: On His Art, Image, and Enduring Friendship with Woody...
When Tony Roberts was at summer camp as a child, he found himself in the boxing ring with a huge bully intent on doing him damage. In defense, he ran around the ring, stumbling and wobbling with...
View ArticleSidney Lumet’s Classic “Dog Day Afternoon” Headed to Broadway
Groans, if not yawns, might have been elicited when Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures recently announced that the company is developing a stage adaptation of the 1975 Al Pacino film, “Dog Day Afternoon.”...
View ArticleArt and Life at “First Look” at the Museum of the Moving Image
Russian director Alexander Sokurov’s latest film, “Francofonia,” which opens the Museum of the Moving Image’s annual “First Look” series on January 8, will undoubtedly be compared to his earlier film,...
View ArticleREVIEW: Guys and Dolls at the Savoy
“Guys and Dolls”, Frank Loesser’s evergreen 1950 musical about soft-centred New York low-lifes, returns in a fizzy new staging at the Savoy Theatre - and the unapologetic escapism couldn’t be more...
View Article5 Must-See Shows by the Carolyn Carlson Company
A major figure of the European contemporary dance scene - specifically in France and Italy - Carolyn Carlson’s career spans more than four decades as dancer, choreographer, instructor, and poet. Over...
View ArticleRock Star David Bowie Dies at Age 69
David Bowie, one of the most influential rock stars, has died of cancer at the age of 69.The British musician, whose career kick-started glam rock in the 1970s, died only days after releasing his...
View ArticleRichard III Murders His Way to the Top Without Props in London: Stage Review
King Richards are like London buses. You wait for ages and then two come along at once. First there is Richard II, who gets caught up in evil plotting at the Barbican with the Royal Shakespeare...
View Article12 Facts You Probably Don’t Know About David Bowie – Art Collector and...
Here are 12 facts you may not know about David Bowie, who died on Sunday just after his 69th birthday and the release of his final studio album "Blackstar." He had been secretly battling cancer.Some of...
View ArticleDavid Bowie: A Theatrical Style Born in the “Bohemia” of Britain
In 1980, David Bowie told the writer and lyricist Tim Rice that a seminal influence in his teenage years came when he picked up a copy of Frank Edward’s “Strange People,” a compendium of human...
View ArticleKeeping Up With a Running Man: Simon Critchley on David Bowie
In his slim book on David Bowie — simply titled “Bowie” and published by OR Books in 2014 — the philosopher Simon Critchley admits on the first page, “no person has given me greater pleasure throughout...
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