
San Francisco Ballet Offers Raymonda Act III, RAkU and Guide to Strange Places
November 13, 2025In a season peppered with contemporary world premieres and dramatic works, it is easy to forget...
NY Philharmonic’s Modern Beethoven Festival Concludes
November 11, 2025There’s nothing worse than a complacent performance of a Beethoven symphony. Being such a staple of...

Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet Presents The Fifth Season, Symphonic Dances and Glass Pieces
November 11, 2025Frances Chung is as resilient as bundled cable. Davit Karapetyan partners her with genteel correctness. They...

San Francisco Ballet: It’s in the Programming
November 2, 2025The world premiere of Mark Morris’s Beaux, set to Martinu's Concerto for Harpsichord (1935), is a...

Dance Review: NYCB Offers Wheeldon’s Les Carillons and DGV
October 29, 2025The ability to enjoy DGV seems to me largely dependent on how irritating one finds Michael...

San Francisco Ballet’s Dazzling Onegin Opens the 2012 Season
October 25, 2025From the luscious Santo Loquasto sets and costumes, to the Tchaikovsky musical pastiche, and the brilliant...

San Francisco Ballet’s 2012 Gala Performance
October 21, 2025A gala performance such as this, kicking off San Francisco Ballet’s 2012 season, is inevitably programmed...
Broadway Review: Alicia Keys’ Stick Fly
October 9, 2025This setup abounds with comic potential, and Diamond wrings plenty of laughs out of the awkward...
San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker Continues the Tradition
October 9, 2025OK. I’ll admit it. I’m a total sap for Nutcracker. You’d think after all the years...
Broadway Review: Private Lives
October 5, 2025Luckily, any such anti-Tinseltown prejudices are quickly dispelled within the first few minutes of Private Lives....










