Choreographed Formality, Like an Elaborate Masque
As in ballet, the coronation provided spectacle and beauty tempered by discipline and focus.
As in ballet, the coronation provided spectacle and beauty tempered by discipline and focus.
His exuberant "Brandenburg," which returns to City Ballet this month, was made near the end of his life, when he was physically and emotionally frail.
In "Yes and Yes," at the Irish Arts Center, Liz Roche responds to "Ulysses," true to her own voice as she converses with his famously convoluted one.
Garrett began her tenure at the organization in August 2019, and plans to depart at the end of this month.
The spring gala featured premieres by the veteran Christopher Wheeldon and a newcomer, Alysa Pires. The surprise was the lack of contrast and risk.
The choreographer Miguel Gutierrez presents the New York premiere of "I as another," a duet with Laila Franklin, at Baryshnikov Arts Center.
She led a foundation that underwrote productions for numerous theater groups, as well as playwrights like Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller.
Tornadoes whoosh dinner from the table and a shark swims through a flooded living room in a clown show that brings the environmental crisis home.
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan revisit Lorraine Hansberry's 1964 play on Broadway, following its sold-out run in Brooklyn.
In the play, at the Public Theater, a mother and daughter endure the devastation of Hurricane Katrina inside the bar that connects them to their pasts.
The Encores! production, directed by Lear deBessonet, looks to deepen and darken a musical that resists the change. But it's still delightful.
In the festival "Archive of Desire," artists and musicians thoughtfully engage with the writing of Constantine P. Cavafy, a self-assessed "ultramodern poet."
Wesley Du explores complex intersections of identity in a coming-of-age story about a Chinese American boy who finds escape in Black music.
For Christopher Wheeldon's return to New York City Ballet, he asked the artist Kylie Manning not just for backdrops and costumes but to, as he says, "form a dance within her world."
A premiere by Judith Sánchez RuÃz goes its own way but, like Brown's work, shows an active, questioning mind and a sensual physicality.
Wheeldon is back at New York City Ballet, where he honed his choreographic skills, making a non-narrative work set to Schoenberg.
The production, a revue celebrating the choreography of Bob Fosse, received no Tony nominations on Tuesday. Its last show will be Sunday.
He got his start at Caffe Cino, the birthplace of Off Off Broadway. His first of many, many plays, performed there in 1964, is a milestone of gay theater.
The musicals "New York, New York," "Shucked" and "& Juliet" each got nine and "Kimberly Akimbo" picked up eight. Several major stars earned nominations.
Park, the first Asian American female composer on Broadway, was nominated for best original score.
With "Ohio State Murders," the 10-time Tony nominee hopes people took away a better understanding of the destructive power of racism.
The actress said she hopes that the play continues to generate discussions around sexual assault and said the response so far has been "beautiful."
Newell was nominated for best featured actor in a musical for their role as the big-voiced whiskey entrepreneur Lulu in "Shucked."
Tony nominators singled out new faces and set up fascinating face-offs, but missed the chance to recognize a Native American breakthrough.