Michael McDonaghArt & ArchitectureNew York,
We think we know what things are about when we see them. Sure, they are what they are, but how could they not be, and if things were only that we wouldn't need art, and our latest phony "deep" buzz ...
Aaron BotwickTheaterNew York,
Ayad Akhtar, whose excellent "Disgraced" won the Pulitzer last year and transferred to Broadway this year, is quickly becoming one of the most important (if not the most important) new voices in contemporary American theater. His follow-up, "The Invisible Hand," currently running at the ...
Susan YungDanceNew York,
Mikhailovsky Ballet in Flames of Paris. Photo: Costas
Ronald Brown's Evidence: A Dance Company, from Brooklyn, and the Mikhailovsky Ballet, from St. Petersburg, Russia, couldn't be more different. Or ...
Michael Wade SimpsonDanceNew York,
French choreographer/artist Xavier LeRoy has staged his “Retrospective” in Singapore, Paris, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro and Hamburg before arriving at PS1 MoMA in Long Island City for a two-month run ...
Michael McDonaghArt & ArchitectureNew York,
It's important to remind people that the West is the new kid on the block because our narcissistic Euro centric worldview is always telling us that "we" did everything first, and everyone else is a late arrival. But that, of ...
At the New York Film Festival, October 5 & 6, 2014
George WuFilmNew York,
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have made many notable films from “La Promesse” to their Palme d’Or winners “Rosetta” and “L’Enfant,” but they had never worked with a movie star as big as Marion Cotillard until now with “Two Days, One ...
Much Ado About Nothing" (June 3 – July 6)
"King Lear" (July 22 – August 17)
Aaron BotwickDestinationsNew York,
“Like one swallow,” wrote John Simon when reviewing the premiere of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," “one Shakespeare does not make a summer.” Fortunately, for the first time since 2011, Shakespeare in the Park is eschewing musicals for two revivals ...
"Everybody’s Out of Step But Me"
Bryan Cranston plays LBJ on Broadway
Aaron BotwickTheaterNew York,
In 1963, Lyndon Baines Johnson (Bryan Cranston) became the first Southern President of the “You-nited States of Am’rica” in one hundred fourteen years—that is, since Virginia’s Zachary Taylor, our twelfth commander-in-chief, who held that position for a total of ...
Aaron BotwickTheaterNew York,
Arnold Bennett, no stranger to the quotidian himself, once accused James Joyce of selecting the “dailiest day” as the subject of his novel Ulysses. Les Misérables, then, could be said to concern itself with the most epical epic: it is the story of a ...
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