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WAYNE BRADY Jumping right into a present like this was leaping right into a recreation of double Dutch. My default Wayne will at all times be the 10-year-old Wayne, who’s a loner, performs by himself, listens to musical theater and writes as a result of he doesn’t slot in. So I inform myself, “Oh, I […] More

In January 2023, the música Mexicana star Carin León was making ready for a live performance at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena when he determined he wanted to do one thing particular for an encore. León grew up in Hermosillo, the capital metropolis of Sonora, Mexico, about 250 miles from Tucson, Ariz. Music was at all times […] More

The 4,300-seat efficiency area about an hour north of Carnegie Hall was eerily empty, apart from 9 judges in uniform sitting behind a thick black curtain. Ada Brooks, her mouth dry from nerves, lifted the bell of her euphonium, a smaller relative of the tuba, and ready to play the notes that would decide her […] More

Some readers confessed to by no means having seen the movie whose soundtrack they love; others even reported disliking it. No matter what they thought concerning the film, nonetheless — together with nothing — they had been passionate concerning the music. Finally, a shout-out to Carole Barrowman of Wauwatosa, Wis., for introducing me to “Bellbottoms” […] More

It’s solely becoming {that a} bar, replete with liquor and raised like an altar, presides over Dave Malloy’s “Three Houses,” which opened on Monday on the Signature Theater. Malloy’s music is, in any case, intoxicating. Alcohol is the accelerant for the present’s linked monodramas. And hung over is the way it leaves its pandemic-sozzled characters […] More

On Feb. 11, 2023, the choreographer Marco Goecke cornered a dance critic, Wiebke Hüster, throughout intermission of a efficiency on the Hanover State Opera in northern Germany. After asking her about unfavourable opinions that she had written about his previous productions, Goecke took out a bag of canine feces and smeared her face with it. […] More

As befits a play set amongst an order of 14th-century friars, “Usus” sometimes makes use of Latin phrases. Sort of. It’s possible that almost all viewers members will perceive “vile rat astard-bay” with out resorting to a dictionary as a result of pig Latin continues to be a residing language. That the monks in T. […] More

Even when Bebe Neuwirth isn’t dancing, she’s dancing. “I’m a dancer first,” she mentioned in a cellphone interview from her condo in Greenwich Village. “I’m a bodily performer, and that impulse, that expression doesn’t go away even when I’m standing nonetheless and listening to somebody.” Neuwirth, 65, is a Tony Award nominee for her efficiency […] More

When Michelle Terry, the inventive director at Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London, determined to placed on a manufacturing of “Richard III” with a feminist twist, she most likely didn’t anticipate accusations of discrimination. But that’s what she acquired. The run-up to the present’s premiere on Tuesday was overshadowed by an argument over the truth that […] More

When the writer-director Nida Manzoor started dreaming up Season 2 of “We Are Lady Parts,” the comedy about an all-female Muslim punk band, certainly one of her earliest concepts was a music: “Malala Made Me Do It,” a neo-Western hype observe celebrating the activist Malala Yousafzai. And then she had one other thought: Maybe she […] More

West Wilson by no means thought he’d be spending the summer time in a home within the Hamptons, not to mention as a part of a actuality tv present. The unemployed former soccer participant from Missouri was about to expire of cash following a three-week boys’ journey when he received a name that will change […] More

The choreographer Raja Feather Kelly’s dance-theater works have made him a mainstay on the downtown arts scene. With his newest piece, “The Fires,” Kelly is making his debut as a playwright. Rarely does a present dwell up so truthfully to its title — wrecking and illuminating in equal measure. In his lustrous, emotionally textured play, […] More