Clive Barnes
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SIMILARITIES DILUTE TROUPE'S STRENGTH
August 7, 2008 | 7:34amWE'VE become accustomed to Chicago standing high as one of the nation's great theater and opera centers. So it's perhaps only logical, after many ineffectual attempts, that it's established itself...
BROADWAY
August 1, 2008 | 4:37am"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...
BROADWAY
July 25, 2008 | 4:08am"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...
IT ENDS ITS STAY TWIST-IN' THE NIGHT AWAY
July 21, 2008 | 8:05amTHE final program of Pilobolus' current season at the Joyce has the most interesting of the season's premieres. It's called "Darkness and Light," and it's the company's first collaboration with...
THIS BROADWAY MUSICAL REALLY [EXPLETIVE]
July 18, 2008 | 4:23amORIGINALITY isn't what it used to be. Take "[title of show]," a Broadway musical - 95 minutes long, top ticket price $111.50 - about people writing about people writing a...
BROADWAY
July 18, 2008 | 4:23am"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...
'COUNTY' STILL TALK OF TOWN
July 16, 2008 | 7:42amTHEY say you can't go home again - but surely it depends on the family and place to which you're going home. In the theater, at least, you can revisit...
BROADWAY
July 11, 2008 | 5:27am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** It's a long day's journey into September - well over three hours - but Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is eviscerating melodrama. Music Box Theatre, 239...
HEROINE CHIC N TEARJERKER
July 9, 2008 | 7:12amBETRAYAL, death, ghosts and redemption - that heady Romantic mix has kept "Giselle" aloft in the ballet world for 167 years and counting. American Ballet Theatre offered the season premiere...
TOO MUCH CLOWNING AROUND
July 8, 2008 | 8:09amFOR its second program at the Joyce, the Pilobolus Dance Company gives us Jonathan Wolken's "Razor : Mirror," which is neither cutting nor reflective. It seems that Safe Horizon, described...
A MOVING PRODUCTION
July 7, 2008 | 5:21amWITHOUT doubt I have not been so moved - literally moved - as an audience member since Trevor Nunn's first London production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber mu sical "Cats."...
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SOMERSAULT
July 3, 2008 | 7:12amTHE Pilobolus Dance Theatre is ensconced again at the Joyce, a sign that summer has definitely come - even if the troupe's season has come a few weeks earlier than...
'WIDOW' IS AT ITS PEAK
July 2, 2008 | 7:54amWHAT a joy Monday to see the return, after five years, of American Ballet Theatre's "The Merry Widow" - a fun, faintly sexy and nostalgic postcard from another age. A...
FIT BODIES IN A FRENCH STEW
June 28, 2008 | 4:47amFRANCE'S Thierry Malandain is a man of many words - which isn't always a good thing to be when you're creating dances. He and his company, Ballet Biarritz, years ago...
BROADWAY
June 27, 2008 | 4:51am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** It's a long day's journey into September - well over three hours - but Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is eviscerating melodrama. Music Box Theatre, 239...
NEW PRODIGAL STEPS IN BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS
June 26, 2008 | 7:42amGREAT dance companies essentially remain the same, even as the dancers change. Look no further than New York City Ballet, where George Balanchine's "Prodigal Son" has been in the repertory...
TIGERS & BAYADERES, OH MY
June 25, 2008 | 7:51amIN the world of classical bal let, swans and sleeping princesses are common but tigers are not. Yet there one was - a stuffed tiger, carried on a stick -...
VET DANCER SAYS ADIEU, WHILE NEWBIE MAKES DEBUT
June 20, 2008 | 5:05amSEVERAL debuts and one farewell had ballet fans skittering across Lincoln Center between New York State Theater and the Metropolitan Opera House this week, taking in them all. First, the...
BROADWAY
June 20, 2008 | 5:05am"AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY": *** It's a long day's journey into September - well over three hours - but Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is eviscerating melodrama. Music Box Theatre, 239...
'BEAUTY' ARISES A BIT
June 18, 2008 | 7:18amTony Walton's Disneyesque scenes were overcrowded, the costumes were a hodgepodge, the choreography was of dubious authenticity, and the whole ballet was scattershot with pseudo-theatrical gimmicks. When the disastrous production...