BY MICHELE CARLO | One night this June, I walked into The Tank (an acclaimed nonprofit arts presenter and producer on W. 36th St. whose mission is to support developing artists), to see a new solo show called Party Animal. I took my seat amid a set strewn with crushed red Solo cups, balloons in […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Dance connoisseurs look forward to August and the arrival in town of Drive East, a weeklong festival of South Asian music and dance by some of India’s brightest stars. Bijayini Satpathy opened the fest on Monday, with a brilliant demonstration of Odissi dance, comprised of exquisite shapes, colors, and sounds emanating […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER Lewd, crude, loud and proud, fast on her feet and politically opinionated (not a fan of Trump), legendary drag queen and one-time longtime New York City resident Jackie Beat retreats from her Los Angeles abode to grace Gotham with her pithy presence, for one show only, come Thurs., Aug. 15—when the storied […]
BY KRISTEN ANCILLOTTI | In the early months of 2019, two complementary exhibitions opened at The Rubin Museum of Art (150 W. 17th St. btw. 6th & 7th Aves.): The Power of Intention: Reinventing the (Prayer) Wheel, which is a collection of traditional and contemporary art highlighting the connection between intentions, commitments, and actions; and […]
BY KRISTEN ANCILLOTTI | Every other year, the Whitney Museum of American Art (99 Gansevoort St. btw. Washington St. & 10th Ave.) presents the Whitney Biennial, an exhibition that shares what is happening in American art at the current moment, across the mediums of painting, sculpture, installation, film and video, photography, performance, and sound. The […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Unless you are a fish residing in the Hudson River, your journey to The Shed, site and producer of the world-premiere commission Maze, will be a schlep. The huge, flexible black box theater sits a few yards from 11th Ave. The best way for Chelsea residents to get there is on […]
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BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Sparking a love of the arts for a whole new generation with their Family Matinees program (last month’s free Pilobolus family dance class for kids and grown-ups was a prime example), the Joyce Theater is offering a special family-friendly evening presentation, with Wed., July 24’s 7pm performance of the Broadway-style dance […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | A fast friendship and onstage collaboration that began in 1993 during a performance at the Meatpacking District nightspot Bar d’O has blossomed into a current production in which the scandals of original sin are front and center on the lobes, and loins, of legendary drag artists Joey Arias and Sherry Vine. […]
He’s toured the West Coast and London with Native New Yorker—but for Charles Busch, there’s no place like home, and no better way to chart his personal and professional journey than by revealing himself through the works of Michel Legrand, Stephen Sondheim, Rupert Holmes and others, who give the show its distinct notes of celebration […]