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Live: Darcy James Argue's Secret Society Gets Palindromic At Galapagos

Secret Society Big Band Galapagos Art Space Friday, March 9 Better than: A certain big band that snoozed its way through the blues uptown a couple of nights earlier. Darcy James Argue's Secret Society—an impeccably appointed 18-wheeler of a jazz group in top shape—made only its second ... More >>

RHYTHM & SOUL

How about two nights in Portugal?

Cries and Whispers: Ivo van Hove Turns His Eyes to Bergman

The noted director brings his latest to BAM

Fall Arts: The Merce Cunningham Company Dances to an End

Fall Dance Picks

William Forsythe, Martha Clarke, Shantala Shivalingappa, and more.

UNDERWORLD BEAUTY

Julia Stiles bites the pomegranate

Laurie Anderson Dreams On

The veteran performance artist shares her Delusion

Fall Guide: The Tricycle Theatre Invades With Its Epic History of Afghanistan

The Public Theater presents director Nicholas Kent's production of The Great Game

SURREAL MELTING POT

This way to Robert Rauschenberg country

SOUND OF MELTING ICE

DJ Spooky gives a voice to Arctic glaciers

EVERY BEAT COUNTS

Experimental drumming for the most experimental house

John Jasperse Pulls a Treasure From the Trash

The recycle of life

The Scrunchie Invasion

BAM's all-night fête flaunts bands, burlesque, and a 'mid-career Lindsay Lohan retrospective'

The Life of Joseph Cornell, Via Bogart and Mee

Sky Boxes

Erik Sanko's Creepy Puppets Meet the Kronos Quartet

Love with strings attached at BAM's Next Wave Festival

The Call of Nature

New York-based Nature Theater of Oklahoma shine in the Under the Radar festival

Festival Frenzy

Try a little of everything at fall dance smorgasbords

Early RSVP

Wedding bells are ringing for Rudnick and his glittery cast

Faust Things First

A mammoth production of the epic verse gets a stateside staging

Life Squad

From Israel with love and power

Lessing Is More

German auteur pares tragedy down to its timeless essence

The World at Our Feet

As days grow short, dancers from around the planet visit our city to share their visions

Tolerance Levels

Master director Peter Brook brings a frayed community Tierno Bokar, a multicultural fable

Despondent Diva

Choreographer Sarah Michelson's in the dark before Daylight

Dance

Brooklyn Euros

Welcome to the new auteurial wonderland

Balm in Brooklyn

Robert Wilson sets Flaubert's St. Anthony fantasia to gospel

Faust Things First

Bilingual, time-jumping, and polycultural, John Jesurun scrambles Goethe's mythic egghead

Choreographer Reclaims Traumatic Images From His Roots

Bitch-Slapped by Shakespeare

A BLT Boy in a Tuna Niçoise World, Richard Maxwell Takes On Henry IV, Part I

Subway Series

We're Henry IV, We Are, We Are: The Plays, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Are the Things

Preventing Performances

The New Bureau for Citizenship and Immigration Services—Once the INS—Impedes International Cultural Exchange

The Greats of Wrath

Head of the Class

Soprano Lauren Skuce gets high marks

Branching Out

Emerging Dance Troupes Move to Their Own Beat

Close-Up On: Fort Greene

The New World Border

International Theater in the Post–9-11 Era

Organization Man

Listening to Dorfman, Whose Dream Came True

Branching out in Brooklyn

The Ralph Lemon Twist: New Recipes for Dance at the Next Wave

Moving Targets

Choreographers Stride to Hit the Mark

First-String Players

Puppet Theater Takes Manhattan

There Is Nothing Like a Dane

Hotel Pro Forma and the Odin Teatret

The Land of Less

Reeling from a major funding drought, vanguard performing artists downsize their dreams

Money Managers

Dance on the Trading Floor