Clive Barnes
The Archive
BROADWAY
October 10, 2008 | 6:02am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping...
GLIDING WITH A SNORT BEYOND TIME'S BORDER
October 3, 2008 | 5:37amKRISTIN Scott Thomas is an actor who doesn't act. Rather, she moves into a character, breathing the same air as a human reality. It's a style heaven-sent for the plays...
BROADWAY
October 3, 2008 | 5:37am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer prizewinner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...
MODERN GOLDEN AGE OF OPERA IS UPON US
September 29, 2008 | 6:17amTHERE was once some thing called the Golden Age of Opera. I missed it. When I started my opera-going, it was mostly a landscape of distinguished rather than great singing,...
GIDDYUP!
September 26, 2008 | 4:41amPETER Shaffer's "Equus" is a mystery play of sorts, but it's less a whodunit than a whywasitdun. The story of a disturbed young man who steals into a stable one...
FLEMING SHINES IN MET MEDLEY
September 24, 2008 | 6:41amYOU can be an extraordinary singer - all that's required are a superbly beautiful voice and impeccable training - and still lack that final gleam of genius.Discover a Different New...
FALLING FOR FLUID FEET
September 22, 2008 | 7:12amWHAT began, five years ago, as an experiment in dance programming has since become a New York institution: the Fall for Dance Festival, a richly varied grab-bag sampler of world...
IT SHOULD BE FAR, FAR BETTER
September 19, 2008 | 5:36amIT was the worst of times . . . and the worst of times. Who knew how eagerly I'd await Sydney Carton's closing words, "It's a far, far better thing...
BROADWAY
September 19, 2008 | 5:36am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer prizewinner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...
IMPROVISATION'S ON TAP AT JOYCE
September 18, 2008 | 6:53amTHE Joyce Theater opened its new season Tuesday - its 26th, for those counting - not with a whimper but a tap. Returning to that venerable dance epicenter in dance-conscious...
'AWAKENING' RISES & SHINES WITH NEW STARS
September 12, 2008 | 5:51amWHEN the startling new Ste ven Sater/ Duncan Sheik musical "Spring Awakening" opened its doors at the O'Neill nearly two years ago, Broadway history turned a new page. But who...
BROADWAY
September 12, 2008 | 5:51am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...
ROCKETTE ON!
September 5, 2008 | 6:19amLEAVE it to the Fall for Dance Festival to feature both an all-male hula troupe and a Thai classical dance with contemporary hip-hop sensibility. Eclecticism rules again when the fest...
BROADWAY
September 5, 2008 | 6:19am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer prizewinner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...
BROADWAY
August 29, 2008 | 7:38am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer prizewinner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...
BROADWAY
August 22, 2008 | 4:42am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer prizewinner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...
BROADWAY
August 15, 2008 | 4:44am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize winner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping...
THIS WON'T WHET THIRST FOR DANCE
August 14, 2008 | 6:57amIF you've never seen a mini-aquacade in an in door pool atop a city condo . . . well, I guess you've never seen a mini-aquacade atop a city condo....
IT'S JOYOUS AT THE JOYCE
August 13, 2008 | 7:26amHUBBARD Street Dance Chicago, now in its second week at the Joyce, is really quite extraordinary. Though this new program, like last week's, is too similar in style and purpose,...
BROADWAY
August 8, 2008 | 4:59am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** A largely new cast, led by the redoubtable Estelle Parsons, has taken over in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer prizewinner. But this eviscerating melodrama remains as gripping and...