This dazzling new dance-theater piece incorporates elements of pre-ballet Baroque dance.
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So You Think John McCain Can’t Dance?
"Straight-talker" McCain is as cynical and conniving a political animal as any of them, and better at it than most.
Read More »Book Review: Sonnets by William Shakespeare (New Edition from Pushkin Press)
This new edition is a good reminder of the still-intimate relationship between literature and physical objects.
Read More »Music Review: Stray Cats – Rock Therapy and Blast Off Reissues
The Stray Cats' late 80s reunion albums, reissued on Hep Cat Records, are worth another listen.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Henry James’s The Aspern Papers, Adapted by Martin Zuckerman
Henry James' suspenseful tale of duplicity, set in a backwater of Venice, comes luridly to life on stage.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Cast and crew's great cleverness and enormous talent make Brecht's masterpiece pulsate with the outsized, exaggerated energy of real life.
Read More »Music Review: Hayes Carll – Trouble In Mind
Hayes Carll has a decisive answer to those faux-devotional slick country songs like "Jesus Take the Wheel."
Read More »Stars Honor Bill Withers and Our Time, an Artistic Home for People Who Stutter
Our Time Theatre Company provides an artistic home for kids and teens who stutter.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Arthur Kopit’s Chamber Music and The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis
Susan B. Anthony, Joan of Arc, and Amelia Earhart fear an attack from the men's ward.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): Dirt
An Iraqi immigrant who knows he cannot be loved invites hatred and abuse instead, because at least it's something.
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