Performing Arts
  • NYTVF: Ladies Night at Fox Comedy Panel

    | Based on a quick scan of the audience last Friday at the 92Y Tribeca, Fox is doing something right. Participating in the conversation were Liz Meriwether and Hannah Simone (showrunner and ...

  • "Cloud Atlas" Flops, But Can We Blame Hurricane Sandy?

    | Audiences time-traveled away from movie theaters this weekend as "Cloud Atlas," the $100-million dollar, independently financed sci-fi epic from The Wachowskis and Tom Twyker, brought in just ...

  • Jazz Isn't a Competition (But Another Winner Gets Named)

    My picture ran in the Daily News. (I had big hair, wore a puka shell choker around my neck, and the newspaper misspelled my last name.) Even then, in triumph, I wasn't completely comfortable with ...

  • 2 for Tblisi: The Loneliest Planet & Ashik Kerib

    Double-bill of the week: Perambulate from Julia Loktev's exceedingly cool Caucasus set nightmare "The Loneliest Planet" (read Graham Fuller's review here) to Serge Paradjanov's overheated Caucasus ...

  • Fall TV Breakdown: Same As It Ever Was

    A few shows have been cancelled, a few more got extra episode orders (not to be confused with renewals), and others are hanging in limbo, waiting to be cancelled or picked up. The presidential ...

  • Treme at 200 (Part One): An Interview with Lolis Eric Elie

    My recent research trip to New Orleans coincided with the bicentennial of the Treme neighborhood, which many consider to be the oldest African American neighborhood in the United States and which ...

  • Week in Review: Ai Weiwei Does "Gangnam Style," Frida Kahlo's Vogue Cover, More

    - Ai Weiwei jumped onto the "Gangnam Style" parody video craze with his own gawky dance video . DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE -Roman and Williams, prolific designers whose work ranges from the Standard ...

  • Courtney Love and Broadway, a Match Made in Musical Nirvana

    ....C. Love, reportedly, has enlisted the help of slime-ball manager Sam Lufti to bring the music of Nirvana to the Broadway stage.

  • Jazz Is Dead (Again)

    I can't be certain that Benjamin Schwarz, literary editor and national editor of The Atlantic, intended for his review of Ted Gioia's book, "The Jazz Standards" (Oxford University Press), to run ...

  • Vanessa Redgrave Returns to the Stage with "A World I Loved"

    ...based on the memoir by Wadad Makdisi Cortas, produced with Mariam C. Said, a personal project for both.

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