May 11, 2016

Lil Buck @ The Broad Stage: What Moves Him

In 2011, when director Spike Jonze recorded dancer Charles “Lil Buck” Riley on his cell phone while performing an interpretive street version of “The Dying Swan” to live accompaniment by cellist Yo Yo Ma, it went viral within weeks and he rose to international stardom with only twenty-three years behind him. With his singular morphing …

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Cave Temples of Dunhuang at The Getty

Hardly a conventional art museum exhibition, Cave Temples of Dunhuang at The Getty offers a rich, multi-faceted experience incorporating three cave temple replicas, multimedia, 3D viewing and an interpretive exhibition consisting of documents and artifacts, some from The Getty’s collection and others from major museums and libraries around the world. On The Getty plaza, one …

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Before the Curtain Rises: Broadway's Final Musicals of the Season

It’s a wrap for the 2015-16 New York Broadway theater season and four of the last shows take up radically different positions on the Broadway musical spectrum. American Psycho tries for cold-blooded satire and Tuck Everlasting makes a bid for the Wicked-Matilda family-friendly demographic. Neither is particularly successful in hitting its target. Waitress scores a …

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