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Recalling Sexual Politics on the Piers

Recalling Sexual Politics on the Piers

BY MICHAEL LUONGO |  For young New Yorkers knowing only a sanitized, seemingly well ordered, affluent Manhattan, the overtly sexual gay life on the Hudson River piers in Lower Manhattan in the 1970s seems another world. All the more reason the period needs to be catalogued and remembered. “The Piers: Art and Sex along the [...]

May 23, 2012No CommentRead More

Clowning Around

Clowning Around

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | There is no greater joy to be had on Broadway right now — perhaps on the entire planet, come to think of it — than watching James Corden in the lead of the hilarious British import “One Man, Two Guvnors.” Adapting liberally from the 18th century play “The Servant of Two [...]

May 23, 2012No CommentRead More

A Mare, a Pope, and a Goddess

A Mare, a Pope, and a Goddess

BY DAVID NOH | Mare Winningham, now appearing in Nina Raine‘s “Tribes” at Barrow Street Theatre (27 Barrow St. at Seventh Ave. So., through Sep. 2; barrowstreettheatre.com), was something of an acting legend in her Los Angeles youth. In the magnificent documentary, “Shakespeare High,” it is revealed that, back in the day, everyone knew of [...]

May 23, 2012No CommentRead More

Two Great 20th Century Operas Return

Two Great 20th Century Operas Return

BY DAVID SHENGOLD | David Daniels gave an intriguing recital May 3 in Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium — a handsome space with a renovated concert series worth checking out. Part of the recital, with veteran pianist Martin Katz, drew from the countertenor’s accustomed fare — 19th century adaptations of Early Italian songs like Caccini’s “Amarilli” [...]

May 23, 2012No CommentRead More

Searing Examination (Little Observation)

Searing Examination (Little Observation)

BY ANDY HUMM | I stumbled upon out gay Mark Ravenhill’s breakthrough “Shopping and Fucking” in London in 1996, drawn by the then-outrageous title only to find a terrific play with an even more provocative plot about drug dealing and gay teen prostitution. It was a knife to the anus — literally, for one character. [...]

May 19, 2012No CommentRead More

Cedar Lake Proves Money Talks –– And That’s a Good Thing

Cedar Lake Proves Money Talks –– And That’s a Good Thing

BY GUS SOLOMONS JR | Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, the billionaire-funded company, continues to prove its genuine artistic mettle with a two-week season at the Joyce Theater. The troupe can afford to support its dancers with salaries and amenities concomitant with their ample talents and also to engage adventurous, accomplished choreographers who create a distinguished [...]

May 19, 2012No CommentRead More

Cock Sure

Cock Sure

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | In staging “Cock,” Mike Bartlett’s brashly titled play about love, boundaries, and indecision, the creators have taken the concept of “theater in the round” quite literally. They have transformed the Duke theater into a sort of micro-arena, with five concentric tiers of seats looking down on a circular playing space about [...]

May 18, 20121 CommentRead More

A ‘Caretaker’ of Rare Pryce

A ‘Caretaker’ of Rare Pryce

BY ANDY HUMM  |  Perhaps only Harold Pinter could enthrall $100-a-ticket patrons for two-and-a-half hours watching a depressive, a manic, and a psychotic homeless man interact in a shabby West London flat, but that’s what’s happening at BAM’s Harvey Theater through June 17. Boulevard comedy “The Caretaker” ain’t, though it provokes rueful laughter in abundance. [...]

May 10, 2012No CommentRead More

Writer Blocked

Writer Blocked

BY DAVID KENNERLEY  |  The year is 1957. The place, a luxurious hotel room in Moscow. Enter Joseph Alsop, arguably the most influential political columnist of the mid-20th century and master of foreign affairs as well as DC machinations. He plops into bed, calling to an unseen intimate who’s in the bathroom. The figure that [...]

May 10, 2012No CommentRead More

Talent Unleashed by Love

Talent Unleashed by Love

BY DOUG IRELAND  |  My old friend György (George) Konrád, the distinguished Hungarian novelist and essayist who was the literary godfather of the Hungarian dissident movement seeing liberation from Communist dictatorship, once remarked to me, “In order to write well, one must have at least the possibility of being happy.” I think this is true [...]

May 10, 2012No CommentRead More

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