Spiky and overflowing, 'Dimension Zero' whips its traditions and influences into a cheeky gumbo, its earnest anti-capitalist message wrapped in cosmic-psychedelic paraphernalia and unstoppable hijinks.
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Concert Review: Modus Operandi Orchestra, Violinist Chloé Kiffer, and Mozart (October 15, 2025)
Violinist Chloé Kiffer's rich-toned, elegant, note-perfect playing took Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 to a high level rivaling the weightiness of his final two symphonies at MOO's latest NYC concert.
Read More »Review: ‘The Mutables’ Wields Technology to Mix Dance, Theater, Opera
This hard-to-categorize show employs an innovative technology called the "BodyMouth" in a dance-theater-opera performance that references mythological female forest creatures from Balkan folklore, commenting on the othering and suppression of women and the female voice.
Read More »Concert Review: Parlando Chamber Orchestra – Can Art Make You a Better Person? Music of Strauss, Mendelssohn, Schreker
Can art make you a better person? Ian Niederhoffer and his chamber orchestra Parlando posed the question thoughtfully at the ensemble's season-opening concert.
Read More »Interview: Heartbeat Opera’s Dan Schlosberg and Jacob Ashworth on Heartbeat’s Past, Present, Future—and Halloween Drag Show!
"We couldn't do this show in some places. Even opera, with some people not wanting to perform 'The Marriage of Figaro!'…But we're thankful that we're here in New York and for the moment we're able to do this in its full glory."
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Bliss Option’ by Andrew R. Heinze
A newly unemployed husband and father finds himself discarded by his family as a no-longer-needed "commodity." Now he's a perfect candidate for a government-sponsored virtual-reality coma. But is the Bliss Option as blissful as advertised?
Read More »Theater Review: The Long-Overdue New York Premiere of ‘Slaughter City’ by Naomi Wallace
Naomi Wallace's magical-realist fable about a strike at a slaughterhouse and meatpacking plant receives a long-overdue New York premiere.
Read More »Concert Review: New York Festival of Song—’The Color of Where You Can Never Go,’ Curated by Nathaniel LaNasa
Pianist Nathaniel LaNasa curated a thought-provoking and entertaining set of art songs on the theme of things that are out of reach.
Read More »Concert/Dance Review: Paola Prestini’s ‘House of Zodiac’
This truly original event at the Green-Wood Cemetery catacombs took in the definitions of concert, dance, and theater.
Read More »An International Mosaic: 28th Beijing Music Festival Links Classical and Contemporary, China and the West, October 10–24, 2025
Every fall the BMF brings together China's top rising talent with world-class musicians from across the globe.
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