Theater Review | 'A Glance at New York': New Yorkâs Good Old Days Were Often Far From Nice
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Axis Company has shaken the dust off a lowbrow stage work called âA Glance at New Yorkâ that was a hit in 1848 and injected it with a huge dose of 21st-century adrenaline.
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A modest, good-natured example of new-from-old appeared in the middle of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centerâs Sunday program at the New York Society for Ethical Culture.
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Two local shows go beyond comic grotesque or the new objectivity and suggest that German modernism before World War II was united by a relentless scrutiny of the world.
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Let&#39;s face it: The distance between London of the 1960s and New York of the 1990s is as wide as the ocean separating the two cities.
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The Museum of Modern Artâs show is a touching, sometimes melancholy portrayal of Russiaâs architectural ferment and the brutality with which it was ultimately suppressed.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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NEW YORKâA few weeks ago, some family members visited me in New York, where I&#39;ve lived for the last six years. They took in the usual attractions and then decided they wanted to check out Ground Zero, the
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Three notable exhibitions on the Upper East Side pivot around Minimalism, one of modern artâs most enduringly popular styles.
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The National Theater of Greece has broken a tragic habit. World-renowned for its harrowing presentations of classic Greek tragedies, the century-old Athens company returned to New York this week with a comedy, ...
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A new play by David Hare heads the list of provocative theater in New York.
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The illustrator Norman Rockwell has often been mocked for creating an America that never was and never will be. But Kevin Rivoli, a photojournalist in upstate New York, will tell you thatâs just not true.
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A new HBO documentary transports us back to a time when Brooklyn and baseball were the apotheosis of the American dream.
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The Upper East Side contains the cityâs most exclusive residences, private schools and social clubs. But it has never been quite as socially exclusive as some might have liked.
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At a lecture on Thursday evening, the writer and journalist discussed New York's Dutch origins, its immigrant history, its history of toleration and New Yorkers' tendency toward nostalgia.
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Mike Leighâs play âTwo Thousands Yearsâ is enjoyable, but oddly conceived and structured.
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Brooklyn has Walt Whitman to sing praises of its âample hills.â Manhattan has Woody Allen to capture its outsize style and neuroses. And Staten Island? Well, Staten Island has Thomas W. Matteo.
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NEW YORK -- The stretch of 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues is jammed shoulder to shoulder these days with office workers and tourists. Families catch a production of "Mary Poppins" at the refurbished New Amsterdam Theatre. European and Japanese visitors line up for Madame Tussauds wax...