Theater

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Food and Drink, Theater

Tiny Losses

October 4, 2009

Blame it on yoga. Walking north on Third Avenue Saturday, I felt the smug contentment of someone who’d deep-breathed himself into nirvana after a session of asanas. Beware of self-satisfaction: the sweaty inner peace I’d hoped would see me through a bout of shopping before dinner in Chelsea got shattered as I glanced down Stuyvesant…

Music, Theater

Ellie Greenwich 1940-2009

August 28, 2009

Gay, Politics, Theater

Pre-Stonewall, A Struggle for Dignity

August 18, 2009

Woodstock isn’t the only anniversary being celebrated this year; the summer of 1969 was also marked by the Stonewall Riots, an event seen by many as the birth of gay liberation. That uprising ignores years of work by a lot of brave forward-thinking folk whose activism, while discreet, embodied the age-old frustrations of men…

Dance, Film, Gay, Literature, Politics, Television, Theater

We are stardust, we are golden

August 11, 2009

Time flies, I thought, as my partner and I wandered the main drag on a recent, all-too-brief trip to Woodstock. The media heralds the 40th anniversary of the event that besieged Yasgur’s farm and a generation’s doobie-fueled conscience, but little of its genuine spirit (what I imagine that to be) lives in the new land…

Criticals, Film, Theater

Broadway Gypsies, Through a Glass Darkly

August 1, 2009

Published Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine Fall 2009 “I think we’re all pretty interesting, and that all of you are pretty interesting.” Michael Bennett Young Mickey DiFiglia’s spirit permeates Every Little Step, the captivating, can’t-look-away documentary directed by James Stern and Adam Del Deo; at one point a black-and-white still reveals this teenager in mid-leap under…

Art, Music, Theater

Michael, Farrah, Joni: Love is touching souls

June 30, 2009

When the dust settles from the week that was—the news tributes, the restoration of EBay and Amazon catalogs, the pending autopsy—one question might surface: where were you when you heard the news? I’d just walked into Casanis, a Lower East Side bistro, for dinner with J; after I placed my wine order he told me…

Film, Television, Theater

Farrah Fawcett 1947-2009

June 25, 2009

Film, Television, Theater

David Carradine 1936-2009

June 4, 2009

Literature, Theater

Welcome Home Joe Turner

June 4, 2009

He’ll set his foot down on the road and the wind in the trees be talking to him and everywhere he step on the road, that road’ll give back your name and something will pull him right up to your doorstep…but maybe he ain’t supposed to come back. Bynum, Joe Turner’s Come and…

Literature, Theater, Writing

O’Neill’s Hard Knocks

May 20, 2009

Passion. Desire. The ad copy for the current production of Desire Under the Elms is the kind of sexy teaser producers hope will put bodies in seats. No way would they tout the especial skills of Eugene O’Neill, an American playwright for the ages. But it’s his story up there, and while it’s by no…