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Baranski’s Timing

Baranski’s Timing

BY DAVID NOH | I  have been enslaved by the comic talent of Christine Baranski ever since seeing her in John Guare’s brilliant classic “The House of Blue Leaves.” As the endearingly coarse, deliriously deluded Bunny Flingus, she had a moment when she fantasized about her loser composer lover, Artie, winning an Oscar, and she said, “And [...]

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

Wagner All Over

Wagner All Over

BY DAVID SHENGOLD | Richard Wagner’s bicentennial, celebrated by the Met with Francois Girard’s splendid new “Parsifal” and Robert Lepage’s misconceived “Ring” — an achievement as empty as Otto Schenk’s kitschy realism, and less popular — also spurred ambitions elsewhere. Strasbourg’s Opéra du Rhin, on April 2, mounted a new “Tannhäuser,” Keith Warner’s ambitious, often visually striking, [...]

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

Lilacs Out of the Dead Land

Lilacs Out of the Dead Land

BY BRIAN McCORMICK | Like the annual migration of the monarch butterflies or the gray whales, the similarly spectacular and mighty Stephen Petronio Company returns to the Joyce Theater to give birth to a new creation. The new dance, “Like Lazarus Did (LLD 4.30),” is inspired by the mythology of resurrection and ideas about transcendence, elevation, and regeneration. The [...]

April 26, 2013No CommentRead More

A Variety of Verdi

BY ELI JACOBSON | Giuseppe Verdi’s bicentennial is coming up in October 2013 but opera houses in New York and worldwide have been celebrating early. Sarasota Opera’s Winter Festival is close to completing a traversal of his entire canon. Verdi’s second opera and first comedy, “Un Giorno di Regno” or “A King for a Day” (1840), [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

Haunted by Old Demons

Haunted by Old Demons

BY GUS SOLOMONS JR | On the first of three different programs in its two-week season at the Joyce Theater, Ballet Hispanico danced three works by Spanish dance makers –– a 1983 work by Nacho Duato, a new duet by Cayetano Soto, and a 2012 theatrical concoction by Meritxell Barberá and Inma Garcia. BH, founded [...]

April 20, 2013No CommentRead More

Dance Theatre of Harlem Comes Home

Dance Theatre of Harlem Comes Home

BY GUS SOLOMONS JR. | The premise that Arthur Mitchell –– the first African-American dancer in George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet Company –– strove to establish was that black dancers can do classical ballet as well as white ones. He founded a ballet school in Harlem and shortly thereafter a company, Dance Theatre of Harlem, [...]

April 12, 2013No CommentRead More

Being Max Steele

Being Max Steele

BY BRIAN MCCORMICK | Max Steele is a writer, blogger, singer/ songwriter, bandleader, performance artist, ersatz go-go boy, and self-affirmed figure of the New Gay Underground — a kind of folksy new millennium would-be Warhol or Wojnarowicz with strong lesbian influences. The suburban West Coast queer punk escaped to New York via Sarah Lawrence College, and [...]

April 10, 2013No CommentRead More

Montevecchi the Magnificent

Montevecchi the Magnificent

BY DAVID NOH | “I’m 80 years old and loving every moment of it!” cried Liliane Montevecchi to me in her exquisite leopard skin-lined jewel box of a Sutton Place apartment. “You know, sometimes people say, ‘You cannot tell your age and you cannot have another birthday!’ So I always tell them, ‘If you don’t [...]

April 10, 20131 CommentRead More

Brava, Divas!

Brava, Divas!

BY DAVID SHENGOLD | Washington National Opera revived “Manon Lescaut” for what proved a very strong role debut by Patricia Racette. Heard March 17, the out soprano, looking lovely and youthful (if not teenaged), sounded fresh throughout a long afternoon, mastering everything from trills to high soft attacks. Only the occasional slightly hard high note reminded [...]

April 10, 2013No CommentRead More

A Miraculous Tension Between Classical and Modern

A Miraculous Tension Between Classical and Modern

BY GUS SOLOMONS | In its two week Joyce Theater season, through April 7, the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company marks its 30th year with two programs that include works from 1977 to the present. Program B, seen on March 27, was comprised of two New York premieres, “Ravel: Landscape or Portrait?” and “Story/,” set, [...]

March 29, 2013No CommentRead More

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