Reviews - USA Archives - Page 15 of 27

The cast of 'The Cher Show' on Broadway. Photo by Joan Marcus.

‘The Cher Show’ celebrates an icon

Neil Simon Theatre, New York, NY. December 12, 2018. I was very excited for this musical. Even if you’re not a Cher fan, you...

AAADT in Alvin Ailey's 'Revelations'. Photo by Donna Ward.

2.8K

Dance legacies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s 60th anniversary performance

New York City Center, New York, NY. December 2, 2018. Dance as an art form owes a lot to legacy – the...

Airi Igarashi & Nikolas Gaifullin. Photo by Gene Schiavone

6.2K

Atlanta Ballet enchants and stuns in new ‘Nutcracker’

The Fox Theater, Atlanta, Georgia. December 9, 2018. The story of The Nutcracker is an old tale, told by many dance companies around...

Boston Ballet's Lasha Khozashvili and Chyrstyn Fentroy in 'Mikko Nissinen's The Nutcracker'. Photo by Angela Sterling, courtesy of Boston Ballet.

5.0K

Theatricality, fun and humor in Boston Ballet’s ‘Mikko Nissinen’s The Nutcracker’

Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts. November 29, 2018. The Nutcracker is a tale with a long tradition of telling, far and wide....

Corbin Bleu (Billy Crocker) in 'Anything Goes' at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Photo by Maria Baranova.

3.0K

Arena Stage wows the crowd with ‘Anything Goes’

Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater, Washington, D.C. November 17, 2018. Last night, I had the chance to see...

James Whiteside and Cassandra Trenary in 'The Tenant'. Photo by Ian Douglas.

2.5K

‘The Tenant’ at The Joyce Theater: What we value in performance

The Joyce Theater, New York, New York. November 10, 2018. There’s no questioning that social mores shift over the decades and centuries;...

2.4K

‘King Kong’ on Broadway is larger than life

Broadway Theatre, New York, New York. November 14, 2018. The job of a critic is just as much an art as the...

Touché Taps's '4 on the Floor'. Photo by Joni Lohr Photography.

3.1K

‘4 On The Floor’ by Touché Taps: Joyful rhythms

The Dance Complex, Cambridge, Massachusetts. October 21, 2018. My only thought or expectation heading into this show is that I don’t often...

4.4K

Peter DiMuro’s ‘Small Visitations in a Near Empty Room’: Beauty in perspective

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts. October 11, 2018. In our frenetic 2018 western-culture lives, how often do we stop to appreciate...

3.1K

The social action art of Silvana Cardell’s ‘Supper, People on the Move’

The Dance Complex, Cambridge, Massachusetts. September 28, 2018. How do you react when you’re faced with something unexpected? How do you react...

Devon Colton, Melenie Diarbekirian and Katie McGrail. Photo by Nicole Tomaselli.

2.5K

Luminarium Dance’s ‘Hiveland’: An interpretable world

Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. September 21, 2018. Some of the best art leaves open room for interpretation – not enough so...

Atlanta Ballet dancers. Photo by Kim Kenney.

4.0K

Atlanta Ballet shows growth in mixed repertory program ‘Return to Fall’

Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Atlanta, Georgia. September 14, 2018. On Friday night, September 14, the Atlanta Ballet presented Return to Fall,...

7.2K

Connections Dance Theater dances about water as life

OnStage Dance Company, Malden, Massachusetts. August 19, 2018. Dance can viscerally depict the human impact of certain events in our world. Paired...

ELSCO Dance's 'Close'. Photo by Mikey West.

5.0K

Duets galore at the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival

The Huntington Avenue Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts. August 11, 2018. The duet form can make art speak to one of the most innately...

4.8K

When dancers, together, have had it: Nozama Dance Collective’s ‘Enough

Green Street Studios, Cambridge, Massachusetts. August 4, 2018. The concept for Nozama Dance Collective (NDC)’s Enough grew roughly along with the emergence of...