Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Giselle
July 13, 2025The cast for the opening night (Saturday, January 29) featured the deservedly popular Yuan Yuan Tan...
Dance Review: NYCB Offers Polyphonia, For the Love of Duke, and Concerto DSCH
July 13, 2025Yet while these dancers retain their individuality, Ratmansky manages to make their movements seem of a...
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
July 3, 2025For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
Tom Russell: American Primitive Man
July 2, 2025Every Tom Russell song has something to say about the human heart. In each voice he...
Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Offers Anointed, The Hunt, Cry and Revelations
July 1, 2025Luckily, Robert Battle needs no anointing. His choreography speaks for itself. In the company premiere of...
Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
June 29, 2025Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
Theater Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Starring Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott
June 29, 2025Patti LuPone, however, does not stumble. In her mesmerizing performance of the show’s best song “Invisible”...
Theatre Review: Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre, London
June 16, 2025Pop music functions as a metonym for the cultural appropriations and misunderstandings which occur onstage. Is...
Nicole Atkins: Femme Noir
April 11, 2025She’s been called the female Roy Orbison, a psychedelic metalhead who grew up listening to Elvis...




