Friday night we stopped by DNA for Laura Peterson’s “Electrolux,” reviewed in The Times by Gia Kourlas. Our very own RT will actually be reviewing this for The Brooklyn Rail, so all we can say now is, it was def worth checking out.
Saturday afternoon we hit the replay of the Met’s simulcast of Peter Grimes [...]
So, my review of the Joanna Newsom concert at BAM has generated a lot of traffic, and two interesting comments by a couple of readers. So let me respond to them here while also offering further thoughts on Ms. Newsom’s work.
To Kat, let me say first that there is no such thing as an objective [...]
Music Review: Joanna Newsom @ BAM
For Michael
For one night at least, the cool kids took over BAM. I am, of course, using the phrase as I once believed Claudia La Rocco had used it (reviewing Jeremy Wade’s “…and pulled out their hair” at The Joyce Soho), that is, with an edge of condescencion. Well, with [...]
Theater Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Happy Days” @ BAM
To use the skippy theme song from the 50’s-era television hit “Happy Days” as intermission music was a cute a touch. Unfortunately, director Deborah Warner and lead actress, Fiona Shaw, eroded Beckett’s dire existential portrait that explores human isolation, our resistance to aging, and the need ultimately, [...]
We know we’ve only been in action since May, but we’ve been toiling away like little Christmas elves to bring you the badest, most awesomest, completely ridiculous critical commentary out there. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve tore a few new holes. But mainly, we’ve been genius. So we’re going out in 2007 by honoring the [...]
There’s curiously no byline in this New York Times review of Brooklyn Philharmonic’s performance on Wednesday of “The Gate,” an orchestral/theater work by Chinese composer and Academy Award-Winner, Tan Dun. The tone is that restrained condescension, you know, where the smugness kind of just oozes through the cracks, even when the writer is trying to [...]
If you didn’t catch the first night, which we reported about here, head out to BAM tonight to catch the second installment of the new (and young) reading/screening series, “Between the Lines.”
The inside word is that tonight’s lineup is more intense, more grotesque, and just as cool as last time.
TONIGHT AT 8PM
BAR OPENS AT 7:30PM [...]
Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company, Three
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains lots of detail. If you're going to see this, maybe hold off on reading. Otherwise, read on...]
During “Secus,” the second movement, literally, of Three, Ohad Naharin’s latest offering that opened last night at Brooklyn Academy of Music, I looked down to jot a note after [...]
Claudia La Rocco has been pulling some serious shit down at The Times. The Young One seems to be doing her darnedest to keep it real, and keep it fresh, and has definitely learned a few lessons from her crusty days of yore. So we thought we’d dedicate a post to a selection [...]
How the fuck did we miss this yesterday!? Damn, we’re gettin’ slow over here. It took us several internet hop-scotches to find this damn article: C.C. to Great Dance to Dancing Into the Future to DTW’s Blog, which posted the full text. Phew!
Basically, L. Ro.’s been doing some gum shoeing about how cultural institutions [...]
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