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Then-ABT David Moore was sitting by the Libermans’ pool in Litchfield County ca. 1981. Baryshnikov also was poolside. David couldn’t help studying his boss’s feet up close. He described them “like a little gecco, lizards that have sucking pads on … Continue reading →

The Bros. spent $20 million to buy a tax cut for themselves of over one billion per annum. And I bet they take their penny wrappers to the bank quite often as well. Jon Queally at Common Dreams reports on … Continue reading →

Dr. Alvin Poussaint and Diana Sands, 1968

One of the cast members of the original Hallelujah, Baby! on Broadway recalled star Leslie Uggams: “They would come with a new song: ‘Leslie, we’ve got to have this in the show tomorrow.’ Leslie would have that in the show tomorrow … Continue reading →

Jonathan Swan at Axios demonstrates the way that AG Sessions has thrown any last residue of loyalty to American democracy overboard, as he put the screws on FBI head Wray to fire deputy director McCabe for the alleged crime of … Continue reading →

Exactly fifty years after Diana Sands played Shaw’s Saint Joan at Lincoln Center, Condola Rashad will play her this spring at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

We don’t really believe that decrepit saw that political message and diverting entertainment can’t combine? It should be tossed into the bin of received ideas we all need to de clutter from time to time. Just rediscovered the song “Ask Yourself … Continue reading →

Wouldn’t it have been better for Timothee Chalamet– instead of apparently lying about his contract preventing him from speaking out about Woody Allen but doing an end run around the issue by offering his salary to advocacy groups– to have … Continue reading →

Even more than theater or movies, the milieu of ballet is highly tactile, highly sensuous as well as erotic. Abuses should be curbed; power asymmetries of every sort should be remedied. But let’s not make it something that it can’t–or … Continue reading →

After what happened in Bel-Air and Santa Barbara, how can so many of the oligarchs still believe that climate change won’t touch them?