Irish Arts Center Announces New Season By ERIK PIEPENBURG / The New York Times A new monthly music and literature residency organized by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon will be featured in the Irish Arts Center’s fall season, the company announced on Wednesday. The series, which runs from September through December, will include readings by…
Read moreSarah Kane Play Among Offerings at St. Ann’s Warehouse By ALLAN KOZINN / The New York Times A production of the British playwright Sarah Kane’s “4:48 Psychosis,” by the Polish company TR Warszawa (Variety Theater in Warsaw), is among the highlights of the 2014-15 season at St. Ann’s Warehouse, the presenter of experimental theater and music…
Read more5 Seconds of Summer Opens at No. 1 By BEN SISARIO / The New York Times A few years ago, the wavy-haired teenage guys in the Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer were unknowns in the sea of YouTube, uploading videos of themselves giggling their way through Chris Brown covers. Now, after being taken under the…
Read more‘Masters of Sex’ Recap: Of Might and Men By KATE PHILLIPS / The New York Times Season 2, Episode 3: “Fight” The wails of a baby haunt Dr. William Masters from home to the hospital, even when he walks through the lobby of a hotel. In Showtime’s “Masters of Sex,” perhaps that’s natural punctuation for a…
Read moreLearning ‘Lear’: A Pitiless Storm, Then the Show Goes On By JOHN LITHGOW / The New York Times John Lithgow, a Tony-winning actor and writer, will be regularly blogging on ArtsBeat as he rehearses and performs “King Lear” for Shakespeare in the Park. I was hoping I’d get a chance to write this entry. On Wednesday I…
Read moreScarlett Johansson Powers ‘Lucy’ to No. 1 at Box Office By BROOKS BARNES / The New York Times Scarlett Johansson punched out “Hercules” at the weekend box office. Her new science-fiction thriller, “Lucy,” was No. 1 at North American movie theaters, taking in an estimated $44 million and proving that her name on the marquee (and…
Read more‘Masters of Sex’ Recap: It’s All About the Swaddle By KATE PHILLIPS / The New York Times Season 2, Episode 2 “I’m not my worst part,” a young, promiscuous woman declares, beaming after Dr. William Masters defied her parents’ demands that she be sterilized. It’s an uplifting moment in what is otherwise a foreboding episode of…
Read moreLearning ‘Lear’: A Real Run-Through, and a Sneak Peek By JOHN LITHGOW / The New York Times John Lithgow, a Tony-winning actor and writer, will be regularly blogging on ArtsBeat as he rehearses “King Lear” for Shakespeare in the Park. All of this and a full moon, too! Today, on our last day in the Martinson…
Read more‘American Psycho’ Musical Coming to Off Broadway By PATRICK HEALY / The New York Times Patrick Bateman is snaking back to New York. The investment banker-cum-serial killer at the center of Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel, “American Psycho,” will be singing and dancing amid spatters of blood in a musical adaptation at Second Stage Theater starting…
Read moreEclectic Offerings at Baryshnikov Arts Center By ALLAN KOZINN / The New York Times The world premiere of a score for handmade music boxes, clavichord, accordion and prepared auto-harp, by the composer and toy piano virtuoso Phyllis Chen, and the United States premiere of “Illusions,” by the Russian playwright Ivan Viripaev, are highlights of the Baryshnikov…
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