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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

Queer Brooklyn, Really

Queer Brooklyn, Really

BY GARY M. KRAMER | Turtle Hill, Brooklyn,” a film that addresses issues of trust and fidelity between two partners, is an outstanding example of what independent queer cinema can be. Smart and savvy, it introduces two-dozen-plus characters that viewers will come to know — and care about — as the film unfolds over the course [...]

April 24, 20131 CommentRead More

Divine Dish

Divine Dish

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | When I first heard that Bette Midler was returning to Broadway, after a 30-year absence, to take on a new solo play portraying notorious Hollywood agent Sue Mengers, I was both thrilled and concerned. Would the Divine Miss M, with her distinct, outsized personality, be able to disappear into another character? After [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

Stuck in the Basement With You

Stuck in the Basement With You

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | The first thing you need to know about “Buyer & Cellar” is that it’s a hilarious and heartfelt comedy, one of the most delightful evenings to be had on the New York stage right now. Jonathan Tollins’ new one-man show was inspired by a home design book written by Barbara Streisand. In [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

Tribeca’s Got Your Type

Tribeca’s Got Your Type

BY SCOTT STIFFLER | Like a thumbprint or a snowflake or a beautifully crafted excuse to miss work on a warm spring day, each piece of work in this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is a unique creation. That said, even the most unconventional effort can, for marketing and viewer choice purposes, be lumped into a handful [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

How Gay Kevin Got to Riverdale

How Gay Kevin Got to Riverdale

BY MICHAEL SHIREY | Gathered among the 18 miles of books at the Strand Book Store on Lower Broadway, comic book geeks turned out for Archie Comics’ unveiling of “Kevin,” a new young adult novel set in the Riverdale Universe. The book, released in tandem with Grosset & Dunlap, features the early adventures of the critically [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

Farm Futures

Farm Futures

BY STEVE ERICKSON | For his first three films, director Ramin Bahrani painted on a small canvas. He worked exclusively with non-professional actors and tended to use handheld digital video. It’s now been five years since his last film, “Goodbye Solo,” and it’s not surprising he would want to move up to bigger budgets. In order [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

Allen Ginsberg’s Many Contradictions

Allen Ginsberg’s Many Contradictions

BY DOUG IRELAND | You may think you know who Allen Ginsberg was. His name alone conjures up what Thomas Pynchon called the “anarcho-psychedelic” era, a counterculture of which Ginsberg was both the media symbol and the progenitor. But a recent critical biography published in London by Reaktion Books paints a picture that explodes myths about [...]

April 24, 20138 CommentsRead More

Little Girls

Little Girls

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | A significant measure of Roald Dahl’s genius was his ability to understand the darkness inherent in childhood from a child’s perspective. His 15 novels are beloved by young readers for what they perceive as his honesty — expressed in abstract comedy and absurd situations — about what they experience in the world. [...]

April 24, 20131 CommentRead More

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