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18 Apr TIO NYC: Into the Woods, Two Plays
“The Emperor Jones” is now up (through April 23) at the Irish Repertory Theatre. Tickets here. The forest is one of these great, universal symbols, ever-present in myth, legend, literature, fine art, film, and other mediums, including theatre. (Think another of Sondheim’s classics, “Into the Woods.”) Throughout...
17 Apr TIO NYC: Que Seurat, Seurat+
“Sunday in the Park with George,” through April 23 at the Hudson Theatre. Seurat’s Circus Sideshow at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art through May 29. “The Theatre of Disappearance” occupies the Met’s roof garden through October 29, 2017. He is a Hollywood insider whose film credits include “Nocturnal...
15 Apr TIO NYC: Icons, O’Keeffe + Konitz
“Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern,” at the Brooklyn Museum through July 23. Go here to learn more about the jazz club, Mezzrow. As a pioneering modernist painter and feminist icon, the lady was OK. Literally. She was Georgia O’Keeffe. Out of the gate (circa 1916) one of...
07 Oct TIO NYC: Zao Wou-Ki, “No Limits”
East meets West at a show up now at Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue (through January 8): Zao Wou-Ki “No Limits” takes the viewer through the life and work of work of a master of post-WWII abstraction. According to the show’s curator, Boon Hui Tan, Vice-president...
05 Oct TIO NYC: “Afterplay” at the Irish Rep, A Must
Brian Friel’s “Afterplay,” is now up at the Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 West 22nd Street. The run is through November 6. Tickets here. Two people, obviously strangers, try to connect over tea, later vodka, talking trivia and telling lies about their lives around a table in the dining...
04 Oct TIO NYC: “Communion” at Urban Stages
Dan MacIvor’s “Communion” is now up at Urban Stages, 259 West 30 Street, through October 30. Tickets available here. Blame it on a Blythe spirit. Actress Blythe Danner had seen and admired Daniel MacIvor’s ‘Marion Bridge” and asked if he might be interested in writing...
03 Oct TIO NYC: What Not to Miss, Fine Art – So Far…
Picasso famously said “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Paul Klee had no such problem: when he grew up, the iconic artist managed to hold on to a child-like vision and yet, and still,...
02 Oct TIO NYC: What Not to Miss, “The Encounter,” A Trip
“The Encounter” a techno trip and tour de force is now up at the John Golden Theatre,” 252 West 45, between 7th & 8th Avenues. Runs through January 8, 2017. Tickets here. Since the company was founded in 1983, Complicite has performed worldwide, winning over 50 major...