For scale, complexity, and sheer extravagance, Austin McCormick's dance-theater troupe is hard to beat. Its new 'Snow White' is a marvel of acrobatics, burlesque, glorious dancing, and intriguing characters.
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Concert Review: Juilliard415 with Jordi Savall – ‘Shakespeare & Cervantes: Dreams and Follies’ (NYC 1/30/2016)
The 'eminence grise' of Early Music led the Juilliard School's main Early Music group in an crowd-pleasing concert with readings, all in tribute to the music of the time of Shakespeare and Cervantes.
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What do artichoke pizza and The American Dream have in common?
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Should we take a stand against laws that are unjust? Are unjust laws even to be honored as laws?
Read More »Theater Review (Off-Broadway NYC): ‘I And You’ by Lauren Gunderson
Is your humanity an everpresent mystery to you? In Walt Whitman's world, this was something to "sing" about.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC Off-Broadway): ‘The Burial at Thebes’ by Seamus Heaney, a Version of ‘Antigone’ by Sophocles
First produced by Dublin's legendary Abbey Theatre 11 years ago, the Nobel Prize winner's play strips Sophocles' cautionary tale of honor and overreach to its dramatic core.
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Do women control men and get them to "do" things beyond a man's power to say no to them?
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The six short plays comprising the LaBute New Theater Festival might have been collectively titled 'Love and Murder,' two themes clearly on the playwrights' minds.
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What is the percentage of incarcerated individuals repeating their crimes based on their socioeconomic background?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Collaborators’ by John Hodge
Hodge's Olivier Award-winning play fictionalizes the last years of Mikhail Bulgakov, author of 'The Master and Margarita,' who lived one of the 20th century's most interesting (and saddest) literary lives, and his dealings with the dictator Joseph Stalin.
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