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Madcap Victoriana

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1947 and today

The Tony was born in the same year as I. There is no significance to this other than my saying so is a way of my riding the coattails of greatness. Self-aggrandizing is a way of life in this era of social media. That first Tony, as I learned from the NYT Flashback quiz, was awarded to Ingrid Bergman. Imagine, Bergman on a stage! But, wait, there’s more. She shared the Best Actress win with Helen…

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Upcoming in June:

In Brooklyn, An Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest by Craig Bacon, Tempest Tossed, at Casa Duse for 8  Shows Only: June 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 2026Tickets on sale now. In Brooklyn, The Circuit: An Immersive Silent Disco inspired by Schnitzler’s La Ronde takes over the streets of DUMBO through Jun 29th. Dancers and performers lead the audience, wearing wireless headphones,…

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Torn from the front page etc*

Here NOW So Long, a New York premiere, presented by White Wave Dance as part of New York LiveArts’ New Works. Here NOW So Long is a multi-media performance with amazing projections (visuals by filmmaker Hao Bai), but that is not all that’s fabulous about this work. Scene upon scene in this program was outstanding and beautiful; the dancing (choreographed & directed by Young Soon Kim) was…

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Love stories

How Will I Remember This is a profound question. This dance piece answers with a marathon of movements, starting with the herky-jerky dancing of the institutionalized. There’s a transition to a joyous barn dance, and then a Fosse-esque interlude. At the heart of How Will I..  are two guys, Reed Tankerseley and Daniel Palladino, who are dramatically and sensually entwined in a beautiful and loving…

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Making "Fresh Tracks"

Dorchel Haqq, photo by Amy Gardner. Ariel Lembeck, photo by Greg Scaffidi. Cristina Moya-Palacios, photo courtesy of the artist. Dahlia Qumhiyeh, photo by Enigma Crush. Sacha Vega, photo by James Gentile New York LiveArts  celebrated early career movement-based artists in its 61st year of  Fresh Tracks with five distinct artists. New Works by 5 early stage creators First up again and…

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On the horizon

Peter Anderson – tenor & soprano saxophone, clarinetWill Anderson – alto & baritone saxophone, clarinet, fluteMike Davis – trumpetDanny Tobias – trumpetJames Burton III – tromboneWillie Applewhite – tromboneEhud Asherie – pianoNeal Miner – acoustic bassAlex Raderman – drum set Miles & Coltrane at 100 at Symphony Space on Saturday, May 30th, shows at 3:00 & 5:30pm feature an all-star band. …

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Indecent

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Happy Mother's Day

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So very many

What is the best concert you have been to? Seeing Barbra Streisand at MSG was memorable. Was it the best? Or was Dolly’s performance there and in Radio City the best? Bette Midler was terrific to watch in action. We had the best seats standing at stage level for Neil Diamond. Also MSG, also amazing being there. We saw Frank Sinatra on a double bill with Shirley MacLaine at Radio City. Roseanne…

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What's on

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Identity

Admit it, you’ve made the leap when you’re introduced to someone whose name ends in a vowel. You know that they aren’t all mobbed up, but you wonder. It seems little American, Italian- boys, too, have the romantic notion linking them to a Scorsese film. We meet the cousins Gio (Donovan Counts) and Vin (Dante Palminteri) bantering at a concert. Gio is younger but he takes care of his best friend…

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Match made

Wendy (Kate Arrington) and Liam (Shane McNaughton) meet cautiously, warily in a park. Shane loves the park. Wendy is a skeptic and awkward. They are together in this park thanks to a dating app, which in Wendy’s case was her sister’s doing. Their meeting is inauspicious. Wendy and Liam are two broken people. The Bad Daters by Derek Murphy is improbably funny, and decidedly dark. The acting,…

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That Great White Whale

Robert Wilson stages a major work, Moby  Dick based on a classic literary work, Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville. In this novel, we are taken along on the adventures of the whaling ship Pequod; the ship is captained by Ahab, who leads the crew in the pursuit of the giant sperm whale for which the book is named. The story if I recall is, at least in part, about the allure of the elusive. It is…

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Listings: upcoming stage shows

In Brooklyn: An Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest by Craig Bacon, Tempest Tossed, at Casa Duse for 8  Shows Only: June 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 2026Tickets on sale now. In Adams, MA The Adams Theater presentsMA250 FestivalPeople, Poetry, PerspectiveJune 12–21, 2026 Tickets 🎟️ Downtown, Manhattan For the 50th anniversary year of Picasso’s death, Picasso: Le Monstre Sacré, a…

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Women Move The World

A dance festival at 92NY As part of the Women Move the World season, this year’s festival was open exclusively to women and female-identifying artists, creating space for bold new voices to take center stage.92NY At first blush, Andrea Miller’s Blush, which premiered in 2009 and is part of the Women Move The World Festival, is a bit grim and quite dark. What it lacks in uplift, at least…

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