Ayres "used her hands, brushes, parts of cardboard boxes and brooms to arrange the vivid images that distinguished her work for more than 60 years. She often spent more time staring at a wor…
She created a performance themed around HBCUs - historically Black colleges and universities - and educated, while entertaining, the audience. "Coachella has come to be known for an easygoin…
Of course, he also drew his own covers and illustrated his own books, but he had a longtime gig with Doubleday Archer, illustrating "serious" paperbacks, for a while. "As collector Lance Cas…
That's right, a theatre performing a musical Titanic had to cancel when debris started falling on stage "shortly after the ship hits the iceberg."
Why director Jo Bonney has a dead animal haunt the characters in Mlima's Tale---In Lynn Nottage's world-premiere drama Mlima's Tale at the Public Theater, the title character is murdered in …
The increasingly popular, and increasingly subtle and detailed, style comes from prison culture. "Black and gray used to be referred to as joint-style or prison-style, because of its roots i…
The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra has launched a new education program, and half of the students will be Latinx and African American, by design. Executive Director Patrick Nugent said, "There…
And no auditions in "private residences" either. At least, that's the SAG-AFTRA goal, part of a #MeToo result: "The hotel audition guidelines build on the union's Code of Conduct on Sexual H…
Filthy Rotten T.S. Eliot When my staff of thousands sent me this book cover, APRIL IS A MOTHERFUCKER, by none other than T.S. Eliot, it put me in mind of Inventions of the March Har…
It's an ironic question, or rather it could be an ironic result, considering that Disney essentially built the modern cinemagoing experience. "To save the kingdom, however, Disney may have t…
She's definitely not happy with Netflix and Amazon Prime video turning moviegoers into watch-at-home fans. Mirren "said the 'communal' experience of cinema is in danger of dying out. 'An aud…
Thinking isn't everything, or rather, it isn't actually divorced from feeling. "Part of being intelligent is about the ability to function autonomously in various conditions and environments…
"The Trout Breaks the Ice is based on the story of Mikhail Kuzmin, who disappeared into the official obscurity imposed by the Soviets on artists considered deviant or who were out of favour.…
Ballet star Justin Peck on making his Broadway debut as choreographer---Although Justin Peck has been a boldface name in the dance world for a number of years, the revival of Carousel at the…
Even the term 'immersive' has become overused. It is being used to flog everything from fine dining to frozen roast potatoes. Some theatre companies liberally sprinkle their marketing copy w…
It's not just men, often of a certain generation, who seem unsettled by this newfound determination to speak out " demonstrating cultural leadership while doing so. I've heard some women in …
"The choreographer, who turns 70 this year, will leave the London venue in November in order to concentrate on leading the Richard Alston Dance Company towards its 25th anniversary in 2020. …
"The iconic actress, comedian, writer and director" - now 85 - "will star in the first Broadway production of Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery, a poignant and timely drama about an eld…
At TDF we do much more than just sell tickets. We help build audiences by showcasing a wide range of performances and sharing peeks at the creative process. To that end, this spring we are p…
ICYMI London's annual Olivier Awards, aka the British Tonys, took place last Sunday. The ceremony at Royal Albert Hall featured lots of live performances, including the opening number of the…
"After more than 45 years working in Europe, changing the face of dance, he has returned to his native America. ... More significantly, since he left his own company in 2015, he has turned h…
"The business is horrible, it's been horrible forever and it's worse now because of Twitter and Facebook and YouTube, so legitimate actors that have trained in the profession have a harder t…
"It has been 250 years since 'modern' circus was born with Philip Astley's invention of the equestrian ring in London in 1768. ... What is often overlooked about that first event is that Pat…
Puppeteer Basil Twist revives the abstract show that launched his career---The other night, MacArthur "genius grant"-winning puppet master Basil Twist spotted a face in his aquatic ballet Sy…
Tony nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega plays an undocumented immigrant in the new musical Miss You Like Hell---Mother-daughter relationships in musicals -- as in life -- are often complex and combat…