The Metropolitan Opera

Sarah Dash From Labelle Turned It Out The Other Night!

How refreshing to find a vocal artist starting a cabaret show with a different "I'm Still Here" song. The one Sarah Dash did at 54 Below the other night was fiery and proud and alive--and not the same old one everyone else does (which I also adore, mind you). Dash has always been individual.

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Week, 5/13/13

Support live music and check out one of these 10 shows this week.

Nico Muhly

Beautiful Creatures, the Ravishing Chastity Fantasy

Birds do it; witches don't

Wagner's Dream

Mormons: Why Are Thousands of Them Gathering in Upstate New York This Week?

This week, thousands of Mormons are meeting up in Upstate New York for what's called the Hill Cumorah Pageant. Of course, the pageant is getting a little extra attention this year, and not just because 2012 marks the fest's 75th anniversary. G.O.P. presidential contender Mitt Romney is Mormon, an ... More >>

Holiday Guide: Arts Picks

Ever See An Oldies Act That Still Rocked?

I did! Earlier this year, I was at a gala dinner at a hotel ballroom and in the entertainment portion of the evening, out came Jay Black from the 1960s group Jay & The Americans. They had huge hits way back when with pop records like "Only in America," "Come a Little Bit Closer," "Cara Mia," and " ... More >>

Alice Playten (1947–2011)

Remembering the veteran New York actress

Masturbating Onstage at the Met, and other Fantasies

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 29, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 13 What's a woman to do when handed poo poo? by Phyllis Raphael Once I knew a woman with a permanently elevated, non-masochistic, non-self-hating ego. She was all the things I am not. She never slept wit ... More >>

POWERHOUSE

Renée Fleming commands the stage

New Year's Eve: Wild Card

And now for something completely different

Robert Sietsema at Umi Nom

Robert Sietsema samples balut (duck embryo) and other pan-Asian treats at Umi Nom. Sam Sifton awards one star to Osteria Morini, where "pastas glisten with pork fat, with butter, with cream, with oil. They are aggressively salted. They hang around on the outskirts of Too Much. ... [Chef Michael] Wh ... More >>

Rating the Ridiculous Musical Performances of Fashion Week 2010 (So Far)

As much of the Boom Boom Room as you're ever likely to see. Twitpic via grekotv​Fashion Week is a biannual rite in New York, and with it comes another biannual rite--awkward, private late night performances from bands that are either at the center of the zeitgeist (Kanye West on the bar at the ... More >>

'An Evening with Sting & the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra'

SEEKING JUSTICE

The MOMA covers three decades of William Kentridge

'James Levine Master Class'

A Cocktail Contest for The Tales of Hoffman Gives the Metropolitan Opera a Little Extra Punch

Selena RicksPerhaps they served metropolitans too...​ Last night, the Metropolitan Opera treated its Young Associates--a group of young donors--to an experience not usually paired with a night of arias: a cocktail competition inspired by the current production, Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hof ... More >>

ALFRESCO ARIAS

Opera: Classiest whilst free

Faust and Billy Elliot: Souls Adrift in Multimedia. Saturn Returns: No Soul at All.

Spring Dance Preview: Emanuel Gat's Club Mozart

Hallowed music gets the Gat treatment

They, Robots

Auteurs! Strap-ons! A theater critic's New Year's wish list

American Ballet Theatre, Up Close

A venerable dance company shows off its treasures

Kitty Carlisle Hart

(1910–2007)

Postmodern Pioneer: The Next Generation

Bokaer gets physical, digital, and naked

1986

Good Conduct: The Metropolitan Opera, as Always, a Class Act

Dance

Music

Julie Taymor Blows a Breath of Fresh Air Into The Magic Flute

The Tender Touch

Four companies celebrate in our city the 100th birthday of an English master choreographer

Dance

Dance

A piano-playing lion from Lyon, France, is set wild this season

Ongoing

Off Directing (Part Two)

Staging Makes War on Scripts, but What's the Battle About?

Dancing Saves the Day

The Balance of Power Shifts Between America's Top Two Ballet Troupes

Ballexploitation

On Pointe

Sallie Wilson Follows in Anthony Tudor's Footsteps

Town and Country

Clash of the Titans

James Levine and His Met Orchestra Take Down the Stars

What Kind of Man is This?

Culture Vultures Home to Roost

Darkness Into Light

Modern Dance Titans Jump-Start ABT’s Spring Season

Roll Over Beethoven

Progressives Shake Up Classical Music

Season Prelude

Classical Music Builds to a Crescendo

Back to Brahms

Gomes Does Tharp Does Brahms Does Haydn

Topless Men in Heady Poses

Battle of the Ballet Hype Machines

Eerie Candy