Posts Tagged ‘Theater’

Behind the Eight Ball

Written by Parker Woolf on . Posted in Theater

A new naked ghost play desperately needs workshopping There’s an old writer’s tale that a young scribe once approached Anton Chekhov and asked him to have a look at his script. Chekhov looked at it, ripped the first two-thirds of the manuscript away, then returned it. “There,” he said. “That’s your play.” Extant Arts Company
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The Big Balanchine Event

Written by Mark Peikert on . Posted in Arts & Film, Theater

By Susan Reiter There are several attention-getting big events during New York City Ballet’s four-week autumn season, primarily the world premiere of Ocean’s Kingdom, a Peter Martins work for which none other than Sir Paul McCartney has composed a commissioned score. The six performances of Martins’ Swan Lake that dominate the opening week will—if recent
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Show Must Go On – Even With a Critic

Written by Mark Peikert on . Posted in Arts & Film, Theater

That moment that (almost) every theatergoer dreads finally happened to me at a Saturday matinee of Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, the second production from the tyro theater company New Haarlem Arts Theatre: I was pulled up on stage by a performer. Friends and my more dedicated readers (assuming those two categories are not the same) will
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And Baby Makes Comedy

Written by Mark Peikert on . Posted in NY Press Exclusive, Theater

Thinking about having a baby can ruin your relationship. Actually having a baby? Well, that can ruin your relationship too, at least according to Daniel Goldfarb’s Cradle and All, a two-act comedy in which Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller play neighboring couples Claire and Luke (childless) and Annie and Nate, who have an 11-month-old insomniac
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City Week: November 18 – November 24

Written by admin on . Posted in Arts & Film

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 American Craft Show NYC & Contemporary Art Fair NYC—These simultaneous events bring 200 juried American Craft Artists to show and sell ceramic, fiber, glass, furniture, wearable art and jewelry works, as well as presentations by 100 independent contemporary artists specializing in painting, photography, sculpture and mixed media. Runs through Nov. 21, Jacob
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