60 stories by "Stewart Oksenhorn"
ASPEN - Aspen Santa Fe Ballet has developed a reputation, over its 15 years, for locating fresh choreographers on their way up, and then maintaining those relationships as the choreographers…
ASPEN - As staged by Theatre Aspen, "Vices: A Love Story" is a technical achievement worth considering. Between two ballet dancers, four singers, a live rock quartet onstage, screen projecti…
ASPEN - Jorma Elo confesses that he doesn't especially enjoy sitting in a theater, watching a dance performance. In particular, what he doesn't like watching are the dances he has created: "…
ASPEN - While Theatre Aspen's venue renovation includes a new tent and more backstage space (both completed), and a new lobby and grounds (both in the works), left out of the plans was an ex…
ASPEN - Sandy Duncan knows what it's like to be stuck in a crummy show, in a nothing theater, surrounded by the sense of failure. In 1969, Duncan co-starred in a two-person play, "Love Is a …
ASPEN - I remember an observation made by my old friend Hal K.: "You know how you put on a brand-new pair of socks, and you feel like Superman?" I knew exactly what he meant: a fresh pair of…
ASPEN - Appropriately for an art form that is loose, anti-establishment and always in flux, there is no perfect agreement on just what defines a fringe festival. There are fringe festivals w…
ASPEN - Theatre Aspen's new tent is sturdier, cleaner, more beautifully landscaped, better integrated into the park and river surroundings - and no bigger than the old tent, at least not in …
CARBONDALE - Over his 51 years, Josh Behrman has gotten to know music venues. There was the Long Island club of his childhood, My Father's Place, where he developed his tastes by seeing repe…
ASPEN - When Adrianna Thompson was in Long Beach State's dance program, she became accustomed to the intensely rigorous routine that aspiring dancers put themselves through. It was three bal…
