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Dance/Book News: “Movement at the Still Point: An Evening of Dance” One Night Only at the Joyce Theater Celebrates Release of Mark Mann’s New Book “Movement at the Still Point: An Ode to Dance” (Monday, April 10, 2023)

April 2, 2023 | a man of, chester, Dance, News, on that day, public theater, this land is made, water for > | “Movement at the Still Point: An Evening of Dance”, “Movement at the Still Point: An Ode to Dance”, American Ballet Theatre, and Curtis Holland, Argentine Tango dancers Dardo Galletto and Alonso Guzman, ballet, Barack Obama, Bradley Cooper, Broadway, Broadway’s Skye Mattox, choreographer and Princess Grace Award recipient Rena Butler, contemporary, David Guzman, David Roberts, former Merce Cunningham dancer Gus Solomons Jr., Gibney Company’s Artistic Associate Jie-Hung Connie Shiau, Hip-Hop, Jennifer Anniston, Joseph Verlezza, Karla Garcia, Margot Robbie, Martha Graham Dance Company, Martha Graham Dance Company principal’s Lloyd Knight and Xin Ying and former principal and Artistic Director Terese Capucilli, Megan LeCrone and Georgina Pazcoguin, modern, Morgan Marcell, musical theater, New York City Ballet’s Sara Mearns, Rhianna, Ricardo Zayas, Ryan Vandenboom, tango, tap, Tap artist Evan Ruggiero, The Joyce Theater, the legendary dancer and actress Carmen de Lavallade, Theatre Reviews Limited, vogue dancers Amadeo "Remy" Mangano and Ousmane “Omari” Wiles, York City Ballet

World-renowned celebrity portrait photographer Mark Mann celebrates the release of his new coffee table book Movement at the Still Point: An Ode to Dance with a one night only star-studded evening of dance at the Joyce Theater, Monday, April 10, 2023. Celebrating the power of expression, in movement and stillness, Movement at the Still Point: An Evening of Dance offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-generational program of…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Harder They Come” at the Public’s Newman Theater (Closed Sunday, April 9, 2023)

March 23, 2023 | a man of, days of, Off-Broadway, on that day, public theater > | "The Harder They Come", Alysha Morgan, Andrew Clarke, Carla Woods, Chelsea-Ann Jones, Christopher Henry Young, Costume Design by Emilio Sosa, Dana Marie Ingraham, David Roberts, Denver Andre Taylor, Dominique Johnson, Dudney Joseph Jr, Dwight Xaveir Leslie, Garfield Hammonds, Hair, Housso Semon, J. Bernard Calloway, Jacob Ming-Trent, Jamal Christopher Douglas, Jeannette Bayardelle Shawn Bowers, Jeffrey Rodriguez, Jimmy Cliff, Joan Marcus, John Bronston, Ken Robinson, Kenny Seymour, Make-up Design by Earon Nealy, Meecah, Morgan McGhee, Natey Jones, Perry Henzell, Projection Design by Hana S Kim, Scenic Design by Clint Ramos and Diggle, Sergio Trujillo, Sir Brock Warren, Sound Design by Walter Trarbach, Suzan-Lori Parks, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tiffany Francès, Tony Taccone, Trevor Rhone, Tyla Collier, Wig

Currently running at the Public’s Newman Theater, “The Harder They Come” is based on the 1972 film by the same name produced and directed by Perry Henzell and co-written with Trevor Rhone. The first paragraph of David Katz’s guest essay added to the Library of Congress National Registry in 2020 summarizes the film perfectly. “The Harder They Come” is a landmark of Caribbean…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Dark Disabled Stories” Sadly Disappoints at the Public’s Shiva Theater (Closed Sunday, April 2, 2023)

I am an LGBTQ+ able-bodied and hearing person walking into the lobby of one of my favorite venues: The Public Theater. There is a notice on the door to mask up before entering. I am early and after masking up and picking up my ticket, I lean up against one of the columns in the lobby and check out my…

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Theatre News: World and Northern American Premieres, Original Commissions, and Works Spanning Theater, Opera, Music, and Dance Comprise Park Avenue Armory’s 2023 Season

World and North American Premieres, Original Commissions, and Works Spanning Theater, Opera, Music, And Dance Comprise Park Avenue Armory’s 2023 Season The North American debut of British dramatist Alexander Zeldin’s LOVE, an emotionally poignant play depicting the lives of families placed in temporary public housing. Uniquely lived-in performances and design immerse audiences within a story that calls attention to…

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Off-Broadway Review: “A Raisin in the Sun” at the Public Theater’s Newman Theater (Closed on Sunday, November 20, 2022)

November 14, 2022 | a man of, back the future, black no, Off-Broadway, on that day, public theater, the old man > | "A Raisin in the Sun", Almeria Campbell, Andie Burns, Bjorn Dupaty, Calvin Dutton, Camden McKinnon, Christopher Marquis Lindsay, Clarissa Marie Ligon, costume design by Karen Perry, David Roberts, fight and intimacy direction by Teniece Divya Johnson, Francois Battiste, hair and wig design by Nikiya Mathis, Jesse Pennington, Joan Marcus, John Clay III, lighting design by Alex Jainchill, Lorraine Hansberry, Mandi Masden, Mister Fitzgerald, movement direction by Rickey Tripp, N’yomi Stewart, Paige Gilbert, Perri Gaffney, Prop management by Claire M. Kavanah, Public Theater, Robert O'Hara, scenic design by Clint Ramos, Skyler Gallun, sound design by Elisheba Ittoop, sound system design by Will Pickens, The Newman Theater, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tonya Pinkins, Toussaint Battiste, Vann Dukes, video design by Brittany Bland

Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” debuted on Broadway in 1959 and appeared in London’s West End five months later. The musical adaptation “Raisin” won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1973 and the play had two Broadway revivals in 2004 and 2014. This powerful and ground-breaking story of a financially strapped Chicago South Side Black extended family’s…

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Off-Broadway Review: The Public Theater and National Black Theatre (NBT) Production of “Fat Ham” at the Public’s Anspacher Theater (Closed Sunday, July 31, 2022)

June 29, 2022 | a christmas carol, black no, hamlet, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, public, public theater > | "Fat Ham", Adrianna Mitchell, Alexandria Brienne Lewis, Anspacher Theater, Benja Kay Thomas, Billy Eugene Jones, Calvin Leon Smith, Choreography by Darrell Moultrie, Chris Herbie Holland, Costume design by Dominique Fawn Hill, David Roberts, Fight direction by Lisa Kopitsky, Hair and wig design by Earon Nealey, Illusions design by Skylar Fox, James iJames, Jereme Kyle serves as the Production Stage Manager, Joan Marcus, Lighting design by Stacey Derosier, Marcel Spears, Marquis D. Gibson, Matthew Elijah Webb, National Black Theatre, NBT, Nikki Crawford, Prop management by Claire M. Kavanah, Public Theater, RJ Foster, Ryan Kane serves as the Stage Manager, Saheem Ali, Scenic design by Maruti Evans, Sound design by Mikaal Sulaiman, Tanesha Gary, Theatre Reviews Limited

Things are going as well as they can as Juicy (a pensive, smart, and gay Marcel Spears who is thicc, beautiful, and lonely) and his cousin and oldest friend Tio (a relaxed and clever Chris Herbie Holland who is a stoner) set up for what appears to be his mother’s wedding reception at her house in North Carolina. Earlier in…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Visitor” at the Public’s Newman Theater (Closed Sunday, December 5, 2021)

November 22, 2021 | a man of, Off-Broadway, public, public theater, the old man, the visitor, visitor > | "The Visitor", Ahmad Maksoud, Albert Guerzon, Alysha Deslorieux, Anthony Chan, Brandon Espinoza, Brian Yorkey, C.K. Edwards, Claire M. Kavanah, Crystal Joy, Daniel Sullivan, David Bengali, David Hyde Pierce, David Zinn, Delius Doherty, Dimitri Joseph Moïse, Groundswell Productions and Participant Media Motion Picture Written by Thomas McCarthy, Hana S. Kim, Jacqueline Antaramian, James Latus, Jamshied Sharifi, Japhy Weideman, Jessica Paz, Joan Marcus, Katie Terza, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Lorin Latarro, Marla Louissaint, Matthew Armentrout, Meg Zervoulis, Paul Pontrelli, Rick Edinger, Robert Ariza, Sahar Milani, Sean Ewing, Sun Hee Kil, Takafumi Nikaido, The Newman Theater, The Public Theater, Thomas Schall, Tom Kitt, Tomoko Akaboshi, Toni-Leslie James, Will Erat

The new musical “The Visitor,” now playing at the Public’s Newman Theater, is based on the 2007 film sharing the same title, with a book by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Brian Yorkey, music by Tom Kitt and lyrics also by Mr. Yorkey. The story is the same but somehow confining it to the stage provides a better focus on the characters…

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Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Announces Line-Up for “New Songs Now in Your Living Room”

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, in partnership with Rosalind Productions, Inc., is proud to announce the line-up for New Songs Now in Your Living Room. This free unplugged concert series gives inventive songwriters the opportunity to test out new material in a low-key, fun environment. Every Thursday in May, two composers will share selections of their work, followed by a conversation with…

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Off-Broadway Review: “A Bright Room Called Day” at The Public’s Anspacher Theater

Tony Kushner’s dystopian vision has a firm grounding in the history of the rise of fascism in Germany in the early 1930s and in the methodical and somewhat meteoric rise of Adolf Hitler to Chancellor of the German Reich. This vision is embodied in “A Bright Room Called Day” currently running at The Public’s Anspacher Theater. Mr. Kushner places himself…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Michaels” at The Public’s LuEsther Hall

Once again playwright Richard Nelson has gathered another family around the colloquial table to observe their trials and tribulations as they conquer another day of survival in Rhinebeck, New York. This time around it is “The Michaels” who are the subjects of this intimate study of human behavior. The revelations evolve almost in real time as friends and family convene…

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