Cirque du Soleil

When Something Is Love/Hate, Do You Love It Or Hate It?

Lots of plays and movies enter into the category of "love/hate"--i.e., people worship at their feet or find them utterly repellent, but no one thinks they're just OK. For example, Oz, The Great and Powerful, Spring Breakers, Twilight, and The Tree of Life come to mind as classic love/hate movies, ... More >>

Taylor Swift - Prudential Center - 3/28/13

Better Than: Being trouble. Something happens when Taylor Swift does nothing. It doesn't matter whether doing nothing follows dressing up and dancing like a hipster, or flying over the crowd (while singing) on an elevated platform, or just a good old-fashioned strut across the stage. That's becau ... More >>

P!nk - Madison Square Garden - 3/22/13

Better Than: The opening act. Poor P!nk. Back in 2001, she was the pop star who wasn't, dissing L.A. and Britney and singing songs for all the missundazstood suburbanites teenpop theoretically ignored. Ten years later, it looked like P!nk was moving away from pop just as pop was moving more towards ... More >>

Kirsten Dunst Plays A Rainbow in Upside Down

Cuisine d’Amélie

A night of French film, food, and dirty words

Strippers, Topless Transsexuals, And Club Kids: Where To Find Them

The boogie is back—but watch out for the tables

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away

THE RINGMASTER

Chekhov goes to the circus

The Voice Talks To KNPR About the 37 Reasons Why We Hate Las Vegas [AUDIO]

We must admit: when KNPR, the NPR affiliate of Las Vegas, contacted us and asked, "Do you want to come on the air to talk about '37 Reasons Why An Unapologetically Judgmental New Yorkers Hates Las Vegas'?" we were a tad nervous. In fact, the polite, kind and good-natured people at KNPR's State of Ne ... More >>

Tupac's Hologram Asks, "Remember The '90s?"

At what point does the nostalgia overwhelm the art?

Live: Is Michael Jackson: Immortal The Pop Spectacle Of The Future?

Michael Jackson: Immortal Madison Square Garden Wednesday, April 4 Better than: Ringling Bros. Cirque du Soleil's take on Michael Jackson's catalog, Michael Jackson: Immortal, is certainly ambitious. The twoish-hour set has a live band, aerialists and fireworks, flips and flops, a dancing sequined ... More >>

My Thoughts On The Oscars As They Happen!

The show started with great dignity. Morgan Freeman came out and a friend of mine said, "Is that the one who fucks the granddaughter?"

Live: Taylor Swift Brings Selena Gomez And James Taylor To Madison Square Garden

Taylor Swift w/ NeedToBreathe, Danny Gokey Madison Square Garden Tuesday, November 22 Better than: Singing along alone in the office. Taylor Swift closed her Fearless tour before a sold-out football stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, where she performed her encore under artificial rain and gave Ju ... More >>

EXIST IN 3-D

Enter the bizarro world of Ryan Trecartin

Aliens Have Landed And Are Singing Medleys

​How do you make eight talented vocalists into a tourist attraction? Have them dress like white sperm cells, talk in squeaky voices complete with alien accents, sing a cappella medleys of every song ever written, and carry out audience participation shtick, like rubbing patrons' heads and rea ... More >>

Cirque du Soleil's Zarkana: My Review

​The last Cirque du Soleil show in NYC, Banana Shpiel, was a mixed-bag attempt to do a Broadway-style musical with a plot and a throughline. But with Zarkana--at Radio City Music Hall--they've gone back to their formula of just stringing together a bunch of daredevil acts along with squeaking ... More >>

Zarkana Goes Swinging: Willie Geist Reviews Cirque du Soleil

The company's latest extravaganza flies into Radio City Music Hall

Eighty-Eight Pianos To Storm The Streets Of New York City Next Week

​Beginning June 18 and running through July 2, the nonprofit organization Sing For Hope will once again install a bunch of pianos for public playing at various places around New York City in an installation that, this time around, they're calling Pop-Up Pianos. The 88 pianos—60 uprights ... More >>

Cirque du Soleil Show Titles: Oy!

​I've had it with those wacky, foreign-sounding, gibberish-y titles of chirping, screeching Cirque De Soleil shows. The linguistic whimsy mixed with faux profundity, all designed to make people think they're shelling out cash for something more meaningful than it is, has become as tiresome as ... More >>

"American Idol": Stefano Langone Won't Get Any Closer To Winning

Michael Becker/FOX​So this was Stefano Langone's week to disappear. I can't say it's a surprise; he'd been on the chopping block for a while, bouncing in and out of the bottom three and generally coming across as someone who was not long for this show. It's still a bit messed up the way the sh ... More >>

Black Party Aftermath: Here's the Raunchy Stuff I Missed

​My last week's column about the annual gay debauch called the Black Party related how I hung out at Roseland till 2 a.m. looking for the raunchy stuff, then came back at 9:30 a.m. because I heard that's when Sodom really hooks up with Gomorrah. And all I could find was some oral action, a ha ... More >>

Daylight Savings Time: A Handy Guide

​This Sunday morning at 2 a.m., Daylight Savings Time begins. This means that all clocks that don't automatically switch over will have to be manually moved ahead one hour. Got it? We have compiled a handy list of critical "Do's" and "Don't's" to help you get through this potentially confusing ... More >>

Allman Brothers Band

DO THE TWIST

The impossible feats of Circa

The Cat's Meow

A cabaret double-header

Aszure Barton and Her Troupe Sniff Out the Wild Essences of Life and Performance

The Baryshnikov Arts Center hosts Busk

Live: The Hold Steady Try Their Best To Burn Down The Beacon Theatre

Craig Finn, taking the whole Twins thing in stride. Pics by Rob Trucks, more below.​The Hold Steady Beacon Theatre Thursday, October 7 Better than: Cirque de Soleil's Banana Shpeel or whatever usually goes on here. I'm sure some of those Allman Brothers shows get pretty rowdy, but I still ca ... More >>

ARIAS'S ARIAS

Drag star goes jazz

The Beauty and Limits of the Dance World's Ongoing Love of Virtuosity

A Look Back at the Work of Alwin Nikolais

Allman Brothers Band

SIN IN THE CITY

Edie returns to NYC

ALIEN NATION

Get ready for a human explosion

HUMP DAY

We hope you like to have your toes sucked

LIVING ON THE EDGE

What happened in Vegas didn’t stay there

KICKS WITH NICKS

Put on your best Stevie face

Oscar Winner Found at Gay Bar!

Give Lizz Winstead her due. And keep your hands off Megan Mullally's melons

Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

The Spiegeltent returns with teak, velvet, and nipple glitter

White Palms

Outward Is Heavenward

Presenting gospel's modern sounds in praise and worship

No. 1 Fan

Cuckoo for Kylie Minogue and Jamie Lidell; Rothko renovates

Dance

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Desert Flash and Local Heroes

Hammocks swing, snakes coil, secrets are kept, and tears well up in our own backyard

The Transporter

'Crutchmaster' Takes Dance to the Next Level

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The Class Menagerie

The People Speak! Thirty-Four NYC Theater Types Pick Their Favorite Shows of the 2000–2001 Off-Broadway Season.

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Beasts and Beefcake