CITY POETRY …words & images from the five boroughs & points beyond “To New York Street Fairs” BY MICHELLE TOKARCZYK In the spell of afternoon sun everything regenerates. Silver earrings shine. Spices scent the air. Bonsai thrive. Nothing hangs too high or forces for you to bend like a supplicant. You move from […]
NYC DANCE PREVIEWS BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER SOLEDAD BARRIO & NOCHE FLAMENCA: Renowned Repertory & New Works Led by Barrio & Artistic Director Martín Santangelo | The news here is not that Noche Flamenca—the Madrid-New York collaboration between flamenco star Soledad Barrio and her husband Martin Santangelo—is celebrating its 30th anniversary, although that is certainly true. […]
BY BONNIE ROSENSTOCK| Some minutes before Burn began, there was an epic river of a rainstorm, pelting leftward, seen on the back screen. Booming claps of thunder were heard, and lightning illuminated the sky, which gave just a hint of a mountainous backdrop. After it subsided, Alan Cumming appeared onstage dressed in black, dark eyeliner […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Worlds collide, sending fiction crashing into fate and creating a new reality so meta, it makes the Marvel Cinematic Universe seem utterly unambitious. That’s the sense you get when reading the timeline that accounts for this weekend’s stage presentation of David and Kate Get Re-Married. Written and performed by David Carl […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods: Violet | Meg Stuart, born in New Orleans to theater professionals and now based in Belgium and Germany, attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and cut her teeth in the contact improvisation community. Her accomplishments are legion and her reach is wide. Stuart’s Violet, 11 years old, has already toured to […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | Returning to action after its annual hiatus, the dedicated-to-dance Joyce Theater offers a rare outlier: An hour-long, one-man show, Burn, made collaboratively by the multi-talented Scottish actor Alan Cumming and choreographer Steven Hoggett, in celebration of the Scottish poet laureate Robert Burns. Arriving in Chelsea weeks after its world premiere at […]
BY ELIZABETH ZIMMER | As I write, the first breezes of fall have begun to blow, and my feet, long laid low by months of heat and humidity, are itching to be out and about. Chelsea enjoys an abundance of walkable performance spaces, and the first offerings of the season. Here are two such opportunities. […]
BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Founded in 2010 and operating from the fourth floor of 312 West 36th Street since 2018, Chain Theatre’s restless quest to contemplate “the cyclical nature of history and complexity of the human spirit” has expressed itself through muscular revivals of proven stage works (The Pillowman), film and play festivals, and NYC […]
Rally to Save the Penn Station Neighborhood | It’s always darkest before. . . something dramatic. With the clock ticking on the dog and pony show that is the public vetting process, chances grow each day that we’ll end up with some kind of largely loyalist plan for the area around Penn Station favored by […]
BY MICHAEL MUSTO | “Everything used to be better” is the rallying cry of the old-fogeys. But this hag is here to tell you that’s as big a lie as saying that Gone With The Wind is an accurate portrayal of the Civil War. I should know. I’ve been around so long that my social […]