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James Murphy's Cerebral Cortex Cannot Handle a DFA Musical

As part of the ongoing series of events Red Bull Music Academy has been hosting across New York City for the past month or so, former LCD Soundsystem frontman and founder of DFA Records James Murphy held a conversation with the Music Academy's Editor-In-Chief, Todd L. Burns. The interview took place ... More >>

In Girls' New Season, The Gay Guy Sleeps With....

SPOILER ALERT! The new season of HBO's Girls--a/k/a Sex and the City with walkups--doesn't start till January 13, but at the premiere at the Skirball Center last night, we caught the first three glibly entertaining episodes that are a-coming.

The Show Does Not Go On

Sandy an unwelcome theater gate-crasher

Live: The Joshua Light Show With John Zorn, Lou Reed, Bill Laswell, Milford Graves, And Terry & Gyan Riley

The Joshua Light Show with John Zorn/Lou Reed/Bill Laswell/Milford Graves and Terry Riley/Gyan Riley Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Friday, September 14 Better than: Slippin' into darkness. "Just to watch people in weird shirts playing funny-shaped instruments is not visually on the same ... More >>

Fall Arts Guide 2012: Theater

Mitt Loves N.Y.: Robert Rosenkranz

With Mitt Romney as its de facto candidate, the roster of Restore Our Future, Romney's designated Super PAC slush fund, reads like a laundry list of New York City's wealthiest denizens. And, according to the Center for Responsive Politics and contrary to popular belief, Super PAC ... More >>

Summer Dance Guide: 'Borrowed Light' and More

'The Public Forum: Sondheim / Kusher'

Fall Arts: Theater Picks

Fall Dance Picks

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

Frankenstein and Keira Knightley—Don’t Confuse the Two

A March march through London theater (sorry, ‘theatre’)

Live: Ryuichi Sakamoto Performs Virtual Duets With Himself at Skirball Center

Jamie MacDonald Ryuichi Sakamoto Skirball Center for the Performing Arts Monday, October 18 Better Than: The soundtrack to An Inconvenient Truth. Ever the educators, NYU prefaced Ryuichi Sakamoto's sold-out evening at the Skirball Center with a physics lesson of sorts--a necessary step, consideri ... More >>

Fall Guide: Ken Swift Gets the Upscale Treatment

Dance Theater Workshop presents Olive Dance Theatre's interpretation of an '80s street art

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

Interview: Dean Wareham on Warhol, Dennis Hopper, And Revisiting Galaxie 500

​Three years ago, I spoke with ex-Galaxie 500/Luna principle Dean Wareham about jumping into a full-time band with his wife (and Luna bassist) Britta Phillips and releasing their sultry, French-pop inspired Back Numbers, which was Wareham's first major post-Luna effort. Since then he's release ... More >>

News Roundup: Beastie Boys, Pearl Jam, Islands, They Might Be Giants

Islands--Islands have released the bubbly new track "No You Don't," from their upcoming third album Vapours, the one frontman Nick Thorburn once famously left on the C Train. The song features him switching between a falsetto and more conversational style, with lyrics like "Don't buy dope from the m ... More >>

CSI: THIS AMERICAN LIFE

An evening with Ira Glass and his hipster/geek pals

Spring Guide: Fang-Yi Sheu Tackles A Martha Graham Classic

Thursday 05/01

Obies, She Wrote

Throwing a Party

Who said modern dance wasn't fun?

CMJ Music Marathon Highlights

Festival Frenzy

Try a little of everything at fall dance smorgasbords

The 51st Annual Obie Awards: Screwball Moments at the Skirball Center

In-the-Red Shoes

Once more with feeling: The Martha Graham Dance Company fights for its life

Postmodern Pioneer: The Next Generation

Bokaer gets physical, digital, and naked

Breuer Chairs a Phalanx of High-Flying Artists in a Family Saga

Fall Theater Preview

Dance

Extreme Makeover

Mel Marvin and Jonathan Levi bring reality TV into opera

Faust Things First

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

The Week in Review

Three World Premieres by Dwight Rhoden Please and Jar

Island Riddim

Yuh bwoy! A night of coochie-popping, booty-shaking reggae takes over Radio City this May

Vive la Danse

From Paris in the spring to a Delancey Street parking lot, the French make their move

Tied Up in Knots

When a dance 'speaks' to us, does the choreographer always know what it's trying to say?

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Fall Dance

Choreography That Interprets Feminism From Behind the Lens