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 ...
Aaron BotwickTheaterNew York,
“Why, [you’re] the torturer, of course,” Inez (Jolly Abraham) says to Cradeau (Bradford Cover) as she enters Jean-Paul Sartre’s "No Exit." He says that this is “too comic for words,” but of course he is her torturer just as she ...
A play that takes as its subject the prevalence of pornography in American culture reveals some uncomfortable truths about hypocrisy, race, and class as well.
Don SheweyTheaterNew York,
Thomas Bradshaw is a 33-year-old black American playwright who might as well have his middle name legally changed to Provocative, because no one seems to be able to talk or write about his work without conjuring that adjective. The most ...
Aaron BotwickTheaterNew York,
They Know You Exist
Caryl Churchill’s "Love and Information" is a solid one-hour play that happens to run for a little under two hours. Its fifty-seven scenes are connected thematically and not narratively, featuring over one hundred ...
Five-channel video with breathing machine ("elephant")
by William Kentridge
Karren LaLonde AlenierArt & ArchitectureNew York,
If you were sorry you missed South African artist William Kentridge’s 2010 production of Igor Stravinsky’s short opera “The Nose,” which played at The Metropolitan Opera, you must experience “The Refusal of Time,” a newly acquired art exhibition ...
Don SheweyTheaterNew York,
The cast of Signature Theatre's production of "Heartless"
Photo by Joan Marcus
'Heartless'
Written by Sam Shepard
Directed by Daniel Aukin
Signature Theatre, New York City
Through Sept. 30, 2012
Sam Shepard’s new play Heartless at Signature Theater ...
Michael Wade SimpsonDanceNew York,
After Ghostcatching
A digital reimagining of a 1999 Bill T. Jones installation piece
Film by The OpenEnded Group
Choreography and vocal phrases by Bill T. Jones
Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 20–27
Salt Lake Art Center, Jan. 20–March 25
Arte ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierMusicNew York,
My dear late best friend Danny Cariaga, classical music critic extraordinaire of the Los Angeles Times, once observed that people went to Wagner’s operas when they were new because they had more time. But now, with the onslaught of e-mails, ...
Susan YungArt & ArchitectureNew York,
New Museum, NYC
http://newmuseum.org/
Reprinted from CV writer Susan Yung’s blog for WNET PBS New York
http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/blog/arts/after-nature
Walking over to the shimmering New Museum to see the exhibition After Nature, I stepped over a dead baby bird ...
Karren LaLonde AlenierMusicNew York,
The Metropolitan Opera commissioned and premiered an ambitious new opera, An American Tragedy, by composer Tobias Picker with a libretto by Gene Scheer. The two act opera is based on Theodore Dreiser’s best-selling novel that deals with the sordid side ...