BY TRAV S.D. | ‘Tis surely no accident that the Irish Repertory Theatre has chosen the month of June in which to premiere Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom, a theatrical adaptation of the final chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses (aka Molly Bloom’s Soliloquy or the Penelope chapter). The events of the novel famously take place […]
BY KATHRYN STOMSVIK | On June 6 at 7pm, a lively crowd of hundreds gathered on blankets across the lawn of Pier 63, to see the Hudson River Dance Festival. Sponsored by The Joyce Theater Foundation, this year’s event featured some of New York’s most prominent voices in the dance community. As a tugboat passed […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Sasha Spielvogel knows what it’s like to feel “other.” Her father escaped Vienna, fleeing the Nazis; her grandfather languished in two concentration camps. A modern dance artist in her sixties, Spielvogel had friends who were bullied for being gay and/or died of AIDS, and she watched the community come together to […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | The second film about Rudolf Nureyev to hit the city this spring (the first being the The White Crow, a Ralph Fiennes-directed biopic), Jacqui and David Morris’s 2018 Nureyev is much the more powerful, entertaining, and affecting. A British production released abroad last September, it incorporates documentary film footage of the […]
It’s this website’s prerogative to change its mind–or at least change formats. That’s why all of the activities you’ve enjoyed reading about in our “Today in Chelsea” section are now to be found here, fresh every Monday, in our “This Week in Chelsea” section. Keep checking this page throughout the week, because we’ll be adding […]
BY KRISTEN ANCILLOTTI | Community Board 4 (CB4) held their monthly full board meeting on June 5 (at Mount Sinai West), to discuss neighborhood business and invite residents to share their concerns. The meeting began with a presentation by Tiffany Triplett Henkel, chair of the Hell’s Kitchen South Coalition, on their Neighborhood Plan (in development […]
BY KRISTEN ANCILLOTTI | The Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance (HYHK) held their annual meeting on June 4 at 555TEN in Midtown to commemorate a year of neighborhood improvements, the successful opening of Hudson Yards, and the work of local artists, as well as to give a peek at what is to come. The Business […]
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY MIKA TURBERVILLE | Black and Latinx trans people are dying at an alarming rate—being murdered for their very existence. In response to the murder of Muhlaysia Booker, who, at only 23, was shot just weeks after surviving a vicious assault—and in remembrance of the other numerous royal transgender women who have […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | For years, Jennifer Muller/The Works has curated a spring festival of edgy female choreographers in Muller’s Chelsea loft. This month, an expanded version of the project (Women / Create!—A Festival of Dance) moves down the block into the spacious environs of New York Live Arts, and features, in addition to Muller’s […]
BY TRAV S.D. | Today, June 5, is the birthday of Paul Swan (1883-1972). How fitting that it falls during PRIDE month! Swan was one of the most remarkable artists of the 20th century: painter, sculptor, model, dancer, choreographer, poet, movie actor, set and costume designer, and—for a few weeks in 1914–vaudevillian. Furthermore, he functioned […]