Ballet Hispánico presented its annual program at the Apollo Theater on December 1st and 2nd with three works embodying the strength of Latin culture. The evening began with a 1998 ballet by Ramon Oller, danced by the full company of 12 dancers. Bury …Read more

Remember those lovely winter scenes and figurines you loved so much growing up? Puppeteer Lake Simons and composer John Dyer have brought them to life in Tree Pop, a delightful multidisciplinary show which combines puppetry, dance and live music. We …Read more

Tribal gangs may rule the mean streets of New York City but Mary Shannon, a drug addicted mother of two, rules the roost in Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s gripping family drama, Downtown Race Riot. Based on true events, this retelling produced by The New Group …Read more

Beau Willimon, the writer and four-season showrunner of Netflix’s House of Cards, brings his signature brand of dark humor to a new politically-minded show, The Parisian Woman, just beginning a limited run at Broadway’s Hudson Theatre. Directed by Pa …Read more

Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance has earned an unjust reputation as being a dated, old fashioned show better left as a curio of a time we should remember but not want to relive. What with its tropes of vigorous men, damsels in distress, …Read more

The luminous Christy Altomare will join Broadway legend Chita Rivera for  “An Evening of Song to benefit The Art Attack Foundation” featuring the artists of Yellow Sound Label including Jessie Mueller, Chris McCarrell and Anika Larsen. The one-night- …Read more

Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner are back at Feinstein’s/54 Below with their show Unattached! in which they revisit some old favorites and introduce material they didn’t get to perform in the first installment of the series in 2016. We spoke to Ripley …Read more

Give us creative ingenuity, meaning and commentary, and hell yes, wild fun; Marta Ziółek’s confident and charged performance Make Yourself, part of the fabulous Perforations Festival at La MaMa, is chock full of it all. The work, a collage pastiche …Read more

Dixon Place presented Under Exposed on November 7. Curated by Doug Post, it is marketed as a platform for emerging choreographers to showcase in-development and completed movement-based art. As always, Dixon Place has proven to be a safe haven for th …Read more

Repertorio Español, in celebrating its 50th anniversary Off-Broadway season, is giving its audiences a rare treasure — a 375-year-old treasure from Spain’s Golden Era. The play Valor, agravio y mujer (Courage, Betrayal and a Woman Scorned), written …Read more