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Pure Play: The Knight of the Burning Pestle
By Ian Strasfogel
Zany Elizabethan antics (including improv) descend on Christopher Street By Ian...
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Why Dance Matters: A Soaring Review
By George Gelles
Celebrating a book that itself is a celebration By George Gelles On her toes:...
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Paying Tribute to Joni Mitchell
By Karen Feld
The multi-award-winning singer, songwriter, environmentalist, activist—and painter—has always...
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Marilyn Maye: Celebrating 95
By Karen Feld
The ultimate performer who made a comeback in her senior years, Maye is a role model for many...
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Breaking New Ground at the Met Opera
By Ian Strasfogel
Contemporary works are making inroads The classics Not selling so well By Ian...
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Two Artists’ Eyes on New York
By Suzanne Charlé
Edward Hopper at the Whitney, Alex Katz at the Guggenheim By Suzanne...
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An Eighty-Year-Old Gets a Dancing Dragon Tattoo
By Myriam Chapman
On her ankle OK, it’s only fiction, but this could happen—especially to a tempeh-eating Upper...
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A New Yorker Abroad—in ’60s Germany
By Ian Strasfogel
A visit to Richard Wagner territory in Bayreuth brings a young New York Jew face to face with the...
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Balanchine!—In Book Form
By George Gelles
Here comes a new biography, plus a nod to an esteemed classic about the...
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Our Book Reviews are Back. Part 2: Nonfiction
By NYCitywoman Writers
Facts matter Our latest nonfiction book reviews run a wide gamut of facts, covering such issues as...
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Our Book Reviews are Back. Part 1: Fiction
By NYCitywoman Writers
We start with four novels, telling tales—and tales within tales Becauseisn’t reality...
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Putting the Pandemic in Verse
By Shelley Stenhouse
Our latest Corona Chronicle captures New York in Our Year of the Plague 2022 Photos...
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Tár with Cate Blanchett: A Review
By Ian Strasfogel
Our critic, a music insider, gives this film a reality check—and finds it lacking By Ian...
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Leopoldstadt on Broadway: A Review
By George Blecher
Tom Stoppard’s highly anticipated take on the tragedy of Austro-German Jews is only occasionally...
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You’ve Never Heard of Soundies?
By George Gelles
These three-minute nostalgia-laden music and dance blasts, played on jukeboxes with screens in the...
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Paws-a-tively Ready for Their Close-Ups
By Ruth J. Katz
Carmen González, who is very possibly New York’s ulti-mutt dog photographer, ruffs—oops,...
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Leaf-Turning Autumn Music in the Berkshires
By Grace Lichtenstein
We’re talking Beethoven, Ravel, Chopin, jazz, blues, folk, gospel, Judy Collins, Van Morrison,...
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The Promiscuous Gardener
By George Blecher
Riffing on the sly and guileful beauty of roses By George Blecher The author,...
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The Man Who Loved Movies
By Toby Talbot
Dan Talbot set the pace for independent films and arthouse cinemas in New York—and way...
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A Celluloid Visionary Gets His Due
By Roberta Hershenson
But it’s complicated The Jewish Museum’s exhibit of Jonas Mekas’s films has caused...
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A Misbegotten Macbeth Descends on Broadway
By George Blecher
The knives are out in this scathing review of the Sam Gold production starring Daniel Craig and...
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A Book That’ll Jolt Your Mind
By Suzanne Charlé
Everyday Play: A Campaign Against Boredom is a quirky, offbeat, maybe even subversive guide to...
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House Painting, Ancient Roman-Style
By Maddine Insalaco
Frescoes from a vanished world offer a modern take on meanings and makers By Maddine...
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Roll Over, Beethoven—This Time for Women
By George Gelles
From Baroque to contemporary music, female composers at last are getting their due By George...
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What One New Yorker Did During Covid
By Suzanne Charlé
Not to be deterred by the lockdown, Elise Engler spent the first year of the pandemic drawing and...
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Boy Wonder at Mid-Career
By George Blecher
Paul Thomas Anderson’s rollicking, serious, endearing Licorice Pizza is well worth a trip to a...
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The Art of Becoming a Landscape Painter
By Maddine Insalaco
Immersion in the surrounding space—in Italy—is part of the subject By MADDINE...
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A Jab and a Bubble in the Eye
By Roberta Hershenson
For a seasoned photojournalist, retina detachment surgery led to new insights into how we view the...
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Baton-Wielding, Arm-Waving Women
By George Gelles
Despite daunting odds, a handful of high-energy, vastly talented, rule-breaking ladies are shaking...
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The Lehman Trilogy: a Probing Critique
By George Blecher
Super-professional acting, glossy production—but do they make a full theatrical meal Is this play...
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Guilty Pleasures in Covid Time
By George Blecher
Want to be enticed by movies again These offerings from this year’s 59th Lincoln Center Film...
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Review: Deciphering Al Hirschfeld
By Deborah Harkins
The renowned caricaturist gets his first biography By Deborah Harkins Portrait...
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Taking Her Shot: The New Woman in Focus
By Suzanne Charlé
A Met exhibit shows how females changed the face of photography By Suzanne...
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Whither Orchestras and Symphony Halls?
By George Gelles
A music critic takes on the future of concert venues By George Gelles The...
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A Foot in the Door
By Nancy Gendimenico
Women filmmakers and female characters had starring roles in 2020 By Nancy...
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Don’t Stop Reading Now
By NYCitywoman Writers
Our book reviews zoom into Shakespeare in America, panthers and cobras transformed into fine...
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Music Gets an Overhaul
By George Gelles
A pandemic shakeup is under way Covid Fan Tutti, anyone By George...
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Books That Got Us Through
By NYCitywoman Writers
2020 was not our favorite year But here are five books that excelled at distracting us The novels...
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Not the Usual Summer Reading List
By NYCitywoman Writers
Our July book reviews (and one non-review) couldn’t be timelier The topics are racism, pandemics,...
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Subversive Needlework
By Peggy Earle
Quarantine time well spent—a needlework fiend stitches absurd quotes from Trump speeches and...
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A Dorothea Lange Exhibit Online at MoMA
By Suzanne Charlé
With more than 40 million Americans filing for unemployment in just the past eight weeks, we see...
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Got the COVID-19 Blues? Go online and ditch ’em!
By Suzanne Charlé
Weeks after Gov Cuomo invoked PAUSE, most of us are ready for some new sights and sounds By...
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Good Books for Us to Read Now
By NYCitywoman Writers
This is the time to read tales about exile from beloved homes, to see William Blake’s vivid and...
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West Side Story, Its Past and Darker Present
By Suzanne Charlé
Director Ivo von Hove has stripped the show to “the essentials,” and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker...
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Books We Love in January
By NYCitywoman Writers
We’ve got you covered: Young love, doomed love, crazy love, and this hormone’s for us—really...
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Fotografiska Descends on New York
By Linda Dyett
Is this Swedish import a gourmet dining and shopping mall with photo exhibits attached Or a...
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Our Favorite Books for November
By NYCitywoman Writers
This month we love books by and about women: Gail Collins and the coming “gerontomatriarchy,”...
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Best Books for Your Fall TBR List
By NYCitywoman Writers
The best intentions got complicated in Afghanistan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation against...
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Courtroom Artists’ Rogues Gallery
By Suzanne Charlé
Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Bernie Madoff—when cameras are banned, artists capture the key...
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Our Favorite Books for September
By NYCitywoman Writers
The mass forgetting of Tiananmena bio of the actor and (who knew) inventor Hedy Lamarr…the late...
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