In Dancer, Academy Award-nominated director Steven Cantor points his laser-focus on one of the most awe-inspiring creatures of the ballet world: Sergei Polunin. Considered by many to be this generation’s Nureyev, Polunin isn’t just fascinating as a d …Read more
Playwright J. B. Heaps does theater the old-fashioned way: from the heart. He takes a subject that inspires him, builds a world for it and then shares it with others. From the inception of his idea to the moment he is greeting his audience at the the …Read more
Over fifty years of a life lived in the theatre stands before this audience tonight. The eyes I look into have seen the likes of which most of us New York City theatre devotees can only imagine. He’s seen it all and done it all. Probably. He’d never …Read more
Pavarotti once said, “It’s like an injection of hormones to work with a great conductor,” which is certainly the experience of working or training with David Dabbon. He has an unusually charismatic and profoundly inspiring energy that shoots right in …Read more
Sugar and spice and everything nice can describe just about every classical staging of the Christmas tradition The Nutcracker. Though the music holds many dark complexities, rarely are these musical layers explored by the choreographer and director. …Read more
After seeing the third part of choreographer Teresa Fellion’s The Mantises are Flipping series at Danspace Project, we couldn’t wait to pick her brains about this fascinating work. In between getting ready for a holiday party at Gibney Dance Center …Read more
One need not even care about Broadway or know who this author/musical director/TV and stage actor/voice coach/Sirius XM Broadway channel host/playwright/New York native/columnist/pianist/(I’m definitely forgetting a credit here)/gossipy funny man is …Read more
Australian funny man Tim Motley’s many talents include working an audience, delivering lightning-fast one-liners in a Humphrey Bogart a la Casablanca sort of way and performing tongue-in-cheek, comically rubbish magic tricks. From the moment he steps …Read more
Fate is a funny thing, causing people — strangers, even — to be drawn mysteriously towards one another emotionally and physically. It is this energy that united two young circus academy students, Magnus Bjøru and Manu Tiger. As they tell it, they …Read more
The French word ‘Retrouvailles’ describes the complex feelings that arrive when two lovers are reunited after a very long time apart. In one moment, pangs of confusion, arousal, anger, shock, lust and even agitation are ignited when long-lost lover’s …Read more
