Only Connect: Finding a Way Into Kinetic Light's 'Wired'
Audio descriptions are one path into this disability arts ensemble's show. In some ways, these mirror the critic's job: putting dance into words.
Audio descriptions are one path into this disability arts ensemble's show. In some ways, these mirror the critic's job: putting dance into words.
Sonja Kostich, a cultural administrator and dancer, will lead the group as it works to expand its audience amid the pandemic.
What does style mean for this (or any other) company in an increasingly global ballet world?
The Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein musical, in which the drag queen Lola saves a provincial shoe factory, makes an Off Broadway return at the spacious Stage 42.
During a renovation of its Chelsea space, the Kitchen will move to Westbeth, which houses artists, the Martha Graham company and much avant-garde history.
Thorsten Lensing takes years between shows; Ewelina Marciniak puts on several each season. Both theater makers are presenting new work in Austria.
After reporting on the Creede Repertory Theater last summer, our writer returned for her vacation and took stock as the company restarted indoor performances.
The musical adaptation, part of Free Shakespeare in the Park, is a remounting of an acclaimed production that had a short run in 2017.
Over 1,000 stand-ups play the Edinburgh Festival Fringe each year, hoping for a big break. Some are already huge names elsewhere.
The experimental theater company's 2022-23 season will showcase a packed lineup under the theme "Remake a World."
After a two-year pandemic delay, villagers in the German town of Oberammergau are once again re-enacting the story of Jesus's life and death, with some changes.
The country's experimental dance artists, independent and resilient, are using their skills in a new arena: war.
"It is never permissible to alter an artistic work such as 'Hamilton' without legal permission," said a message on Instagram, which added that the church would pay damages.
The Tony-winning Broadway actor has made a career playing powerful women. Her latest is a drug queenpin inspired by 50 Cent's mother in the newest "Power" series on Starz.
The experimental comic is known for freewheeling sets. Then Bo Burnham asked, "What if you actually tried to make something?" The transition has been hard.
Sophie McIntosh's new play gathers five women in a college production for an exercise in youthful ambition and the corrupting clashing of egos.
Attendance lagged in the comeback season, as the challenges posed by the coronavirus persisted. Presenters hope it was just a blip.
Black characters in "Mad House" and "The Southbury Child" endure microaggressions and aspersions. The familiar scenarios hit home for our critic.
Johnny G. Lloyd's new play about a solitaire champion examines talent, ambition and the rising stakes of success when you're Black.
This year, the Beach Sessions at Rockaway Beach features the Trisha Brown Dance Company in a program of early works.
Jesse Williams and Jesse Tyler Ferguson will reprise their roles in the play, which won a Tony for best revival in June.
American-style stand-up, a relatively young art form in France, is attracting a young, racially diverse crowd to a blossoming club scene.
The company, a keeper of the great British choreographer Frederick Ashton's flame, has brought a pleasant and slight program to the Joyce Theater.
For the arts ensemble Kinetic Light, the needs of disabled people are sources of inspiration and innovation.
Danni Gee, a former Alvin Ailey dancer and SummerStage festival curator, will program the dance-dedicated Joyce Theater.