Skin Fruit: A Depressed World
The exhibition Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons and on view at the…
Opera: Henry Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’
The 2010 Spring Season, organized by BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, made a spectacular beginning with an Opera: Henry…
The Miracle Worker
Excitement was building up as I made my way to the Circle in the Square Theater. I was attending…
Sauerkraut Western Done Right
Inglourious Basterds (2009) is Quentin Tarantino’s sauerkraut Western. Rather than the spaghetti scenery of conventional Westerns, we have WWII…
When East Met West
Rudyard Kipling once said, “Oh East is East, and West is West, and the twain shall never meet.” However,…
Larry Coryell and Bombay Jazz!
A never-to-forget day – when some of the greatest classical jazz performers were in the eyes of the excited…
Blue Man Group
Where do I begin to review the Blue Man Group? From walking up to the Astor Place Theatre where…
Goodbye Cruel World
Semyon Semyonovich (Paco Tolson) was the biggest loser in Moscow, and then he decided to commit suicide. Now that…
The World is Sexist (?!)
At the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens this past fall, Lutz Bacher’s “MY SECRET LIFE” exhibition opened…
The Quantum Eye
Well, to start off, it can be pretty difficult to find the the Bleeker Street Theatre unless you know…
Circumcise Me
Only in New York would you find a thrice-circumcised Irish Catholic-turned-Orthodox-Jew, kvetching about everything from terrorism to hard-core drugs…
The Quantum Eye
Fans of magic and comedy will rejoice at The Quantum Eye’s hefty offering of outstanding feats and light, quick-witted…
Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Diary of a Teenage Girl, written by and starring Marielle Heller, is truly a masterpiece. It is an…
Lenin’s Embalmers
The unusual layout of the room immediately catches the eye. The theater is a black box, with two adjacent…
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Please Allow Me this Rant
Performing arts don’t only demand prodigious skill, but a willingness to expose emotions, even if the exposure only occurs…