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Dance Review | Risa Jaroslow & Dancers: Danceworthy Ideas, All of Them Personal

a shared story    6 days 8 hours 16 minutes ago
In honor of her 60th birthday, Risa Jaroslow asked friends to help her shape her new work, “Sixty,” performed at Danspace Project on Thursday night.   comments (0)  | report problem


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Dance Review | Inbal Pinto Dance Company: Ominous Maneuvers on a Blanket of Snow

a shared story    1 week 1 day 10 hours 15 minutes ago
On Tuesday night at the Joyce Theater, Inbal Pinto Dance Company tried to create a world of wonder in “Shaker,” but the cloudy production, from 2006, didn’t awaken much fantasy.   comments (0)  | report problem



A Shakespeare 'All's Well,' More Romance Than Comedy

a shared story    1 week 1 day 20 hours 16 minutes ago
As romantic heroes go, Bertram in "All's Well That Ends Well" is a dud. He's vain, gullible and takes no interest in the thoroughly winsome Helen. So why is she so stuck on him? The answer, in director Joe Banno's quirky and meditative production for...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Theater Review | 'The Footage': What You See

a shared story    1 week 1 day 23 hours 16 minutes ago
With “The Footage,” Joshua Scher has written a play, but you get the sense that he would have preferred it to be a movie.   comments (0)  | report problem



Kennedy Chief Comes to an Opera's Rescue

a shared story    1 week 1 day 23 hours 16 minutes ago
Michael M. Kaiser, the president of the Kennedy Center, has developed a reputation for saving performing arts organizations that are at the brink of disaster. Now he's adding a new leaf to his portfolio. In a letter to patrons, New York City Opera's chairwoman, Susan...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Arts, Briefly: Tony Producers Dropped From Show

a shared story    1 week 2 days 16 minutes ago
Elizabeth Ireland McCann, the managing producer of the Tony Awards since 2001, and Joey Parnes, a coordinating producer, will no longer be producing the awards show.   comments (0)  | report problem



The Elements Unite to Create Woolly's 'Boom'

a shared story    1 week 2 days 17 hours 16 minutes ago
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company must have fun sorting through the latest batch of weird, because they've unearthed a grandly wacked-out apocalypse fantasy in Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's "Boom." This is boy-meets-girl stuff that's not just twisted, but gleefully torqued. Jules is a lonely marine biology grad...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem



Theater Alliance's New Season

a shared story    1 week 2 days 17 hours 16 minutes ago
What Artistic Director Paul Douglas Michnewicz calls the Feminine Metaphor is the theme for the 2009 Theater Alliance season. "The Women of Tin Pan Alley" (Feb. 5-22), a cabaret revue conceived by Joanne Schmoll and staged by Jessica Burgess, celebrates women who contributed to the...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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'Boom' Writer Has Comedy Down to a Science

a shared story    1 week 2 days 21 hours 16 minutes ago
"If I was having a hard time with theater people, I could go have a good time watching bees," remarks playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, when asked what possessed him to do a double-major in theater and biology at Brown University. The San Francisco-based writer-actor's play...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem


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Arts, Briefly: ‘Vanities’ Gets a Date

a shared story    1 week 2 days 22 hours 16 minutes ago
The Broadway show “Vanities, A New Musical,” which chronicles the lives of three friends from the 1960s to the 1980s, has announced its theater and opening dates.   comments (0)  | report problem



Chicago theater community to honor Studs Terkel

a shared story    1 week 3 days 18 hours 16 minutes ago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Actor David Schwimmer will be among members of Chicago's theater community honoring the late Studs Terkel next week....  comments (0)  | report problem



Getting the Last Laugh

a shared story    1 week 3 days 20 hours 16 minutes ago
The late George Carlin, whose sense of irony was world class, would have appreciated last night's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor ceremony at the Kennedy Center, though it's not clear which rich irony he would have liked most. Surely, he would have gotten a...(more)  comments (0)  | report problem
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