VIEWPOINTS – The robust fall dance season continues: Program 2 of the ARPINO DANCE FESTIVAL and the return of PARIS OPERA BALLET

This past week was a busy one for dance fans, with quite a number of enticing offerings from a number of institutions and festivals city-wide to choose from. Here are … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – In the hard-to-categorize COLOR THEORIES, Julio Torres brings a dreamy disposition to his incisive musings

Also this week, Julio Torres’s Color Theories opened Off-Broadway at Performance Space New York in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan. Perhaps best known for his award-winning HBO series Fantasmas … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – A searing André Holland headlines a breathtaking revival of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s THE BROTHERS SIZE

Last night, the anticipated revival of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brothers Size opened Off-Broadway In Hudson Yards at The Shed’s Griffin Theater. A co-presentation with Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – At The Joyce, MARK MORRIS DANCE GROUP illuminates humanity vis-à-vis musicality as only Morris and his company can

Currently at The Joyce Theater in Chelsea, you’ll be able to catch Mark Morris Dance Group in the midst of a two-week summer run consisting of two completely distinct programs. … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – At THE SANTA FE OPERA, insightful young singers enliven the warhorses LA BOHÈME and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO

Over the holiday weekend, I ventured out west to attend a couple of performances at the famed Santa Festival Opera, a summertime destination for opera fans — and a bucket … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – ADAM PASCAL & ANTHONY RAPP continue to celebrate their friendship and shared history at 54 Below

This week, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp have returned to 54 Below to continue to celebrate nearly three decades of friendship and shared history. Most will be familiar with the … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Queer defiance: JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND at Joe’s Pub and the return of H.M. Koutoukas’ MEDEA OF THE LAUNDROMAT

This past Pride Month, I got more than a whiff of queer defiance at a pair of downtown shows. Read on below for my thoughts on these performance, both of … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – Searching solo shows that stare down life and death: Phillip Howze’s SELF PORTRAITS (DELUXE) and Dael Orlandersmith’s SPIRITUS / VIRGIL’S DANCE

This past week, I was able to take in a pair of intimate, searching solo shows that stare down life and death. Read on for my thoughts. SELF PORTRAITS (DELUXE)Bushwick … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – At Birdland, MELISSA ERRICO conjures back “old” New York glamour with her love letter to the city (and Sondheim)

Currently at Birdland Theater, you can find Broadway star Melissa Errico (My Fair Lady, High Society) delighting audiences with her latest cabaret act. Entitled A Manhattan Valentine, the show arrives … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – At TFANA, Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks lead Arin Arbus’s thoroughly satisfying revival of WAITING FOR GODOT

Last night at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn, I caught Theatre for a New Audiences’s new production of Samuel Beckett’s seminal play Waiting for Godot. Originally scheduled to open … Continue Reading →