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From Slut Shaming to Systemic Racism, Indie Opera Tackles Timely Issues
These operas are not the types of performances seen at traditional opera venues with their generous budgets, megastars, and perfect-pitch performances.
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An Opera Revisits the Grisly Public Dissections of the 18th Century
An anatomical theater and its dissected murderess are the subjects of a bloody opera on the physical nature of evil.
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The Irish for Noh: The Masks of William Butler Yeats
Although the poetry of William Butler Yeats is often misconstrued as autobiographical, the poet scorned such transparency, calling it “unimaginative” and comparing realism to “putting photographs in a plush frame.”
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E Is for Edward Gorey, Whose Biographical Play Was Embellished
GOREY: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey presents its subject as a closeted, mostly rebuffed gay man resigned to his solitude. In the process, it sells him short.
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Drag Ballerinas Spin Gender Roles into Farce
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo satirizes the clichéd gender conventions of dance, and the world at large, in technically superb takes on classical ballet.
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A Scintillating Opera Is the Met's First by a Female Composer in 113 Years
L’Amour de Loin, by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, receives a dazzling production that sets the self-aware tale of unrequited love on a flickering sea of LED lights.
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Reinterpreting W. B. Yeats's 1916 Experiment with Japanese Noh Theater
At Japan Society, Simon Starling reinterprets a one-act play by W. B. Yeats in which Japanese Noh theater met European modernism.
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A Performance Troupe Takes on Immigration, Monsanto, and Standing Rock
As the dark night of winter approaches, Reverend Billy is issuing a call to creative arms.
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A Play Touches on the Power of Touch
The beating heart of My Brother’s a Keeper, performed at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, is an interlude at a bus stop when two characters let go of verbal language.
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Conceptual Dance Lite: Jérôme Bel's Elemental Choreography
For more than twenty years, the French choreographer has pioneered a kind of dance that highlights the biography and particularity of the performer.
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A Dancer Finds Freedom in a Forest of Wires
It doesn’t feel right to call Plexus either a dance or a spectacle.
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A Theatrical Release Party for a Reimagined Golden Record
A Host of People's new production reconceives the 1977 effort to create a phonograph record that would communicate the story of life on Earth to extraterrestrials.