Alvin Ailey’s annual gala began with suits and bare chests on the red carpet and ended with dancing to Madonna’s “Like a Prayer.”
Category: New York City Center Theater
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Those Little Chimes That Say ‘Please Take Your Seat’
At New York’s performing arts venues, herding audiences is a melodic mission.
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Elizabeth McGovern as a Sultry Bombshell? This Isn’t ‘Downton Abbey.’
“It’s very liberating to take off that psychological corset,” the actress said of portraying the rambunctious Hollywood star Ava Gardner onstage.
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Review: Long-Lost ‘Love Life’ Still Has a Lot to Say About America
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and other top-shelf singers star in an overly sentimental production of the long-lost Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner show.
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‘Love Life,’ the Lost Great American Musical, Returns Over 75 Years Later
Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner’s pioneering “Love Life” was thwarted by circumstance. Now, it is coming to Encores! at New York City Center.
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Sting on Setting His Music to Dance in Message in a Bottle
In “Message in a Bottle,” a dance show opening at City Center, Sting’s songbook helps tell the story of a family fleeing conflict.
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‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ Returns, Bringing a Jazz Tale to a New Generation
Jason Michael Webb, the show’s guest music director, said he wants audiences at the musical about Jelly Roll Morton to experience “a time period that does not exist anymore.”
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‘Pal Joey’ Review: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildering
Joey is still a heel in this major revision of the 1940 antihero musical, but he’s now a Black artist trying to find his true voice.
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‘Oliver!’ Review: Tunes, Glorious Tunes, in a Grimly Cheerful Revival
The Encores! production, directed by Lear deBessonet, looks to deepen and darken a musical that resists the change. But it’s still delightful.
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‘Oliver!’ Returns, With Darker Twists Intact
The emphasis Encores! puts on words and music rather than spectacle allows the cruel realities of Dickensian London to stand out amid the bouncy tunes.