Sorry that the next few reviews are so late in coming. It was one show after another while I was fighting off what I thought was allergies but grew to realize was actually bronchitis. But now I’m medicated and ready to write things up. Lucero opening for Lucero at Webster Hall. You can’t have too […]
While British comedian Eddie Izzard is off in France doing his act in French, French comedian Gad Elmaleh is in NYC doing a workshop of his act in English. Actually, Elmaleh is a Moroccan Jew, who lives and works in France. He is sometimes described as the Jerry Seinfeld of France. Elmaleh is also very […]
Before last evening’s Fall for Dance program there was an interview with two choreographers. Stanton Welch, artistic director of the Houston Ballet, and Stephen Petronio, director of the Stephen Petronio Company, would each have dances at Fall for Dance. The Houston Ballet was performed last night. Both men came to dancing late in life but […]
It was the second night of the second program of Fall for Dance and the night began with a panel discussion with the FFD commissioned choreographers for the year. One piece was going to be performed that evening and the other later in the week. Choreographer Pam Tanowitz heard a five-minute string quartet by Greg […]
Next for me at New Yorker Festival was The Writing Process, a panel with Jeffrey Eugenides (“The Virgin Suicides” “Middlesex” “The Marriage Plot”), Sheila Heti (“How Should a Person Be?” “Ticknor” “Women in Clothes”), and Ben Lerner (“Leaving the Atocha Station” “10:04” “Angle of Yaw”) moderated by Cressida Leyshon (deputy fiction editor of The New […]
There are some days when you think, “How great is it to live in NYC?” This was one of those days – two interviews at the New Yorker Festival and then dance performances at Fall for Dance. The first interview was Larry Kramer talks with Calvin Trillin. Kramer (writer and AIDS activist) and Trillin (writer) […]
Autumn means it’s time for Fall for Dance, the inexpensive way to see many types of dance. There are five different programs and I’ll be seeing all five this year. The Miami City Ballet performed Allegro Brillante, which could be a primer for ballet. There is every move you can think of that’s part of […]
Irving Plaza is not one of my favorite venues. It’s a large ballroom that holds about 1000 people. Sound can be iffy. Sightlines are difficult. I don’t like standing in the middle of the huge crowd, so I stand in the back where there’s more space and some air. But what I mostly see is […]
I was very excited to be back at the beautiful historic Beacon Theatre to see a performer I’d only seen once years ago open up for David Ford at the Mercury Lounge. I liked Passenger so much that I sing one of his songs in my set. Gregory Alan Isakov made a very funny observation […]
When I lived in Greenwich Village in the mid-1970s, there was a group of young folksingers that I would listen to regularly. Now those singer/songwriters are the old guard keeping the tradition alive and promoting younger singers. Christine Lavin was one of my favorites during that time. She could be funny or serious and she […]
