Brooklyn-based Canadian librettist Royce Vavrek is a very busy man these days, and New York audiences are very lucky! This month, the 2016 Prototype Festival features two of his operas, Angel’s Bone with composer Du Yun and Dog Days with composer Da …Read more
With music by Du Yun and libretto by Royce Vavrek, Angel’s Bone, at the 2016 Prototype Festival, is a wailing 80-minute opera where feathers fly and violins screech to high heaven. We see the world of Angel’s Bone through the eyes of Mrs. X.E., skill …Read more
The stage opens on a set of stairs leading to a glittering, ladies-only jazz band. They launch into a mash-up of a few jazz standards, including “It Don’t Mean a Thing” and “Luck Be a Lady”. The performance legend Maurice Hines appears onstage as tho …Read more
The world premiere of Mac Wellman’s new play, The Offending Gesture, opened January 9 at the Connelly Theater. Wellman is well-known – and very well-regarded – as the head of the Playwriting MFA program at Brooklyn College (which has produced myriad …Read more
On Saturday, January 9th a group of approximately 75 audience members filled the open wings of the Playhouse Theater at Abrons Arts Center to view the work of Keith Hennessy, a San Francisco-based dance and performance artist regarded as a pioneer of …Read more
Upon the rupture in his relationship with Paul Verlaine, after Verlaine shot him, the adolescent poet prodigy Arthur Rimbaud declared in his prose poem “Morning of Drunkeness,” “Behold the time of the assassins!” Recalling this poem while taking in t …Read more
Sanctuary presents an 80-minute opportunity to share dismay at what often seems like the constant state of violence and war we live in. The one-woman play, written and performed by Susanne Sulby and directed by Stephen Stahl, lends a voice to the fee …Read more
Acrobatic Conundrum, Seattle’s premier contemporary circus arts company, will be performing The Language of Chance at the NYU Skirball Center on January 14th as part of Circus Now 2016. Acrobatic Conundrum is led by Artistic Director and Co-founder, …Read more
Three ordinary people, a husband, a wife and a woman, meet at a shabby hotel by the sea with only a 4th floor, only one room on that floor and only one employee, a porter. But the action of The Last Hotel, a dark and devastating new opera by compose …Read more
Part of living in New York City includes complaining about living in New York City, especially when it comes to the fact that it’s quite difficult to find tranquility in “the city that never sleeps”. The bustle and hustle of the subway, tourists that …Read more