LAST WORD REVIEW: Candide @ New York City Opera
Sunday afternoon, The New York City Opera unofficially bid farewell to its landmark Harold Prince production of the invaluable Leonard Bernstein operetta, Candide. It took Mr. Prince’s production, begun at the Chelsea Theater in 1973 and later brought to the New York City Opera by Beverly Sills [...]
A cute, single paragraph appeared yesterday in the Theater section of The Times online. The headline is “Speechless Actors Roam London Stage.” The piece is listed as “Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder.” The paragraph concerns a current London staging of Austrian writer Peter Handke’s The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other, in which, reportedly, [...]
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, [...]
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
WHITNEY LIVE SERIES AND CHEZ BUSHWICK PRESENT
MAGNETIC LABORATORIUM
POLIS 07 VIDEO ART PERFORMANCE
DIRECTED BY MARISELA LA GRAVE
FRIDAY / JANUARY 11 / 2008 / 7PM
(C.C. be in it to win it.)
Movie Review: Tim Burton’s “Sweeney Todd”, a film adaptation of the musical by Stephen Sondheim
All the hype and gripe over Tim Burton’s screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s much revered opus, Sweeney Todd, can be a little tiring. Most of the chatter—which can be found, among other places, at the be-your-own-critic section of The Times [...]
Congrats to the Nature Theater of Oklahoma for clinching a huge profile in The Times (they’re linked on the front page of the website!).
We totally raved about “No Dice,” which is sold out for the rest of its run. But never fear, they’re presenting like, a polar opposite piece at The Public as part of [...]
So, in case y’all hadn’t noticed…The Ontological-Hysteric Theater (aka Richard Foreman’s deal) has been keeping an awesome (if sparse) blog of their upcoming production, “Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland,” which opens this month.
Their latest post is a hot interview with Foreman himself. There’s also this crazy/beautiful quote from Foreman’s rehearsal notebook (the very first post):
“The [...]
Seriously, you guys. We totally just woke up after nearly two weeks of not reading a single article on the arts, with two exceptions. So maybe it’ll take a few days for us fully to get back into the swing, you know?
In the mean time, here are a few things to check out in The [...]
Michael Feingold is starting to wear. Can anyone get all the way through one of his rambling missives? I mean, all the way through. No skimming.
It’s just, for The Voice, his voice is sounding laconic and curmudgeonly. Not at all like the streetwise rag that isn’t afraid to drop an f-bomb now and then. Take [...]
If you love the musical theater works of Stephen Sondheim and you’re shivering in your queer-ass boots for fear of what awful fate will befall the juggernaut “Sweeney Todd” in the hands of creepy filmmaker and Depp-o-file, Tim Burton, READ THIS NOW. It’s Jesse Green’s blow-by-blow conversation with Sondheim about the kind of extreme [...]
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