Book Review: "Cocktails With George and Martha" by Philip Gefter
With Burton and Taylor as stars and a writer and director feuding, adapting the scabrous play wasn't easy. "Cocktails With George and Martha" pours out the details.
With Burton and Taylor as stars and a writer and director feuding, adapting the scabrous play wasn't easy. "Cocktails With George and Martha" pours out the details.
Alexei Ratmansky, arguably the most important ballet choreographer today, has made a deeply personal first work as artist in residence that reflects his Ukrainian roots.
Jez Butterworth's new play explores the family dynamics of a song and dance troupe that didn't make the big time.
An unlikely dark comedy imagines the people pushing #PizzaGate, Donald Trump and who knows what next.
The current season of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" meets Merce Cunningham in an incongruous mash-up of reality TV and modern dance.
If Taylor Mac and Matt Ray's four-hour rock opera were aiming to succeed on aural gorgeousness and visual spectacle alone, there would be no cause to quibble.
"Oh, Mary!," which follows a boozing, romance-starved first lady, is the latest entertainment about the Lincolns, illustrating their staying power as irreverent genre figures.
The Brooklyn Museum exhibits art works collected by the musical superstars Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys " and it makes a show of the collectors, too.
Philadanco! returns to New York with four premieres that highlight the dancers' skills without revealing much deeper artistry.
"She saved my career," Patti LuPone said of this indispensable vocal therapist and coach whose clients include Madonna and Billy Porter.
An Off Broadway musical about the sins of journalistic fabrication might benefit from more make-believe.
Amy Ryan will replace her in the show, which also stars Liev Schreiber and began previews on Saturday.
A series of events in preparation for the Paris Olympics explores a paradox, since arts and sports rarely mix in France.
Companies are cropping up and expanding. Is the city on the cusp of a fertile chapter in its dance history?
She was a successful designer. But she was probably best known for being duped in a scheme that inspired the play "Six Degrees of Separation."
He won awards for his roles in "Sophisticated Ladies," "The Tap Dance Kid" and "Miss Saigon" " the most ever in the category of best featured actor in a musical.
The new jazz age musical adaptation of the classic 1959 Billy Wilder film closed in December.
Matt Ray is a prolific songwriter and the musical nexus of New York's alt-cabaret scene. His next project: Taylor Mac's latest marathon performance.
George Lee was the original Tea in "George Balanchine's The Nutcracker." A documentary filmmaker found him and a lost part of ballet history in Las Vegas.
Our theater critic on some of the Broadway legend's greatest vocal performances.
An Oscar-nominated role opposite Marilyn Monroe in "Bus Stop" led to a long career in film and TV and onstage, in productions that grappled with race, drugs, homosexuality and more.
With one arm and one leg, he upended assumptions that disabled people could not lead fulfilling lives, and his artistry had audiences clamoring for more.
Peck's choreographic debut for the company, the lively "Concerto for Two Pianos," shares the spotlight with Alexei Ratmansky's mysterious, wonderful "Odesa."
Gabby Beans shines as a time-hopping protagonist tracing her trauma in Rachel Bonds's slip-slidey new Off Broadway play.
Molissa Fenley's "From the Light, Between the Lamps," a collection of short works, is a steady, rigorous exploration of movement to music.