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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

Final Cut

Final Cut

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | Clifford Odets, the pioneering playwright acclaimed in the 1930s and beyond for his gritty realism, is enjoying a mini-resurgence on Broadway. Earlier this season, Lincoln Center Theater staged a gut-wrenching revival of “Golden Boy,” about a conflicted, self-loathing young man forced to choose between art and fame. Now the Roundabout Theatre Company [...]

April 18, 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

Storied Director Tells Us More

Storied Director Tells Us More

BY GARY M. KRAMER | Out French writer and director François Ozon’s diverting new film “In the House” alternates between two stories. One has Germain (Fabrice Luchini), a teacher, mentoring Claude (Ernst Umhauer), a student in his literature class. The other features Claude’s writing, which depicts his experiences in the home of his classmate Rapha (Bastien [...]

April 10, 2013No CommentRead More

Lesbian Lives and Modernism’s Invention

Lesbian Lives and Modernism’s Invention

BY DOUG IRELAND | Lesbian history is, sadly, too often neglected in the efforts to rediscover and renew our queer pasts, and remains an area of study rich in material yet to be mined. We are reminded of this by a sparkling new triple biography of three now nearly-forgotten women who — in the first half [...]

April 10, 2013No CommentRead More

Hanging On for Dear Life

Hanging On for Dear Life

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | Even if you care about the minutiae of the tabloid newspaper business in New York a quarter of a century ago, it will probably still be difficult to rouse any excitement for Nora Ephron’s posthumously produced non-play at the Broadhurst. The reason to see it, as the audience clearly illustrated 10 minutes [...]

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Maverick Filmmaker Victim of His Own Influence

Maverick Filmmaker Victim of His Own Influence

BY STEVE ERICKSON | ”To the Wonder” is the kind of muddle only a great filmmaker can make. If cinema consisted of images alone, this film would be masterful. Unfortunately, Terrence Malick also supplies two of his characters with clunky voice-overs. As a priest (Javier Bardem) ponders his doubts about his faith and growing disconnect from [...]

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

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