Tanztheater Wuppertal: “Preserving Pina Bausch’s Legacy”
German born Pina (Philippina) Bausch was one of the greats in the dancing world. She “defined the psychological landscape of contemporary dance” as reviewer Luke Jennings put it in 2008. She was...
View ArticleProud Noonuccal Nuugi Announced as Sydney Festival Director
Sydney Festival have announced that playwright and theater director Wesley Enoch will be the next incoming Festival Director for a three-year tenure starting from 2017.Sydney Festival is one of...
View ArticleUpcoming Film “Bangistan” is a Satirical Comedy about Fanaticism
The film “Bangistan” by first-time director and ex-film critic Karan Anshuman is an upcoming satirical comedy starring Riteish Deshmukh and Pulkit Samrat (“Fukrey”). Set to release worldwide on July...
View ArticleLos Angeles DJ-Producer Daedelus to Perform in India in July
Los Angeles-based DJ, producer and multi-instrumentalist Alfred Darlington (or Alfred Weisberg-Roberts), known on the electronic music circuit as Daedelus, is coming to India in July to perform in...
View Article“The Visit” and “Gigi”: What Went Wrong?
In the aftermath of the Tony Awards, in which both “The Visit” and “Gigi” went home empty-handed, both musicals announced their respective closings: the former on June 14 and the latter on June 21....
View ArticleDatebook: 5 Cultural Festivals to Watch Out For
At a loss for how to fill your summer? How about checking out Europe’s most spectacular cultural festivals, from the classical music to pop-tinged jazz. Highlights include Glyndebourne Opera Festival...
View ArticleIn Tune: A Tribute to Ornette Coleman
This week we lost a music legend: saxophonist Ornette Coleman passed away on June 11 at the age of 85. Coleman, according to Ben Ratliff in the New York Times, was “a kind of musician-philosopher” who...
View ArticleThe Silence of Violence: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s “The Tribe”
To say that Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s “The Tribe” is unsettling is an understatement. I’m not one who typically gets squeamish in a movie theater, but there is more than one scene in...
View Article5 Films to See This Week: “The Wolfpack,” “Eden,” and More
“The Wolfpack” – Film Society of Lincoln Center (through June 25)Crystal Moselle’s sympathetic documentary follows the Angulos, a close-knit family that lives in relative isolation in a project on the...
View ArticleOver the Top Opera at Arena di Verona Opera Festival
Don’t head to the Arena di Verona Opera Festival for the opera. Instead, go for the “opera.”Why the quote marks? A trip to the largest outdoor lyric theatre in the world is, in many ways, like a trip...
View ArticleThe Post-Tony Awards Box-Office Points to a Most Durable Season
The 2014-15 Broadway season is already one for the books. And in the aftermath of the Tony Awards telecast on June 7 — the theater’s biggest infomercial — the box-office has continued to ring up...
View ArticleWhat to See at EU Film Days, Kyoto
EU Film Days aims to bring the best of European cinema to audiences in Japan as part of the annual EU-Japan friendship week.In total this year’s EU Film Days festival will be showing 27 films across...
View ArticleDeviating From the Mold: BAMcinemaFest 2015
Here’s a fact: there are too many film festivals. New York City, to take the most local and egregious example, has somewhere in the range of 40 film festivals annually, of varying size and importance....
View ArticlePrime Time of Your Life: Mia Hansen-Løve’s “Eden”
Toward the end of “Eden,” director Mia Hansen-Løve’s love letter to youthful innocence and generational shift, the main character, a DJ named Paul, visits a sparsely crowded subterranean club. The...
View Article“A View from the Bridge” Celebrates Arthur Miller’s Centenary
Ivo van Hove’s award-winning London production of Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” will cross the pond this fall less than five years after the last revival closed on Broadway.The unusually...
View ArticleThe Merits of Cliché: “True Detective,” Season 2
Let’s get this out of the way at the onset: “True Detective” is kind of dumb. I watched the first season and have seen the first three episodes of the second (and will continue to watch the rest when...
View ArticlePerforming Arts Weekend Picks: June 19-21
The weekend has arrived. Are you looking for something to do with your friends? Is you’re family in town? Maybe you’re just bored and need to get out of your apartment? Let ARTINFO help you out. Below,...
View ArticleThe Puzzle Ornette Coleman Left Us
On Saturday, June 27, at 11am, I’ll be at Manhattan’s Riverside Church for a funeral to celebrate the life, mourn the loss, and revel in the spirit of Ornette Coleman.Coleman, who died at 85 on June...
View ArticleQ&A with Julie Taymor on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Julie Taymor calls William Shakespeare one of “the most prolific screenwriters in history.” So it’s apt that she’s adapted his work for three films: “Titus Andronicus,” “The Tempest,” and now “A...
View ArticleReview: Turkish Delights Don’t Always Delight in Glyndebourne’s “Die Entführung”
For Glyndebourne’s new production of Mozart’s “Die Entführung aus dem Serail,” designer Vicki Mortimer creates an eighteenth-century Turkish harem, which looks as inviting as can be. There are cool...
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