Arcadia,
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, opens March 17
Tom Stoppard’s mid-career masterpiece returns to Broadway. The cast and crew is stocked with veterans of the British playwright’s work: Billy Crudup appeared in the 1995 production of the show and director David Leveaux put on Jumpers and The Real Thing on Broadway. Arcadia is something of a Read More
Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason
by Anne Roiphe
(Nan A. Talese, $24.95), March 15
The first-wave feminist Anne Roiphe takes her reader back to New York at the turn of the 1960s, the era of Mad Men and Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That.” Ms. Roiphe, a former writer for The Read More
The Strokes
Angles
March 22, RCA
And we thought a career based upon ripping off Television couldn’t last. The saviors of New York rock–or of New York trust-fund-kid hauteur–faded away after their little-loved First Impressions of Earth in 2006. In the interim, Julian Casablancas made a solo record; Albert Hammond Jr. made two; Fabrizio Read More
Desert Flower
National Geographic
March 18
Aside from George Michael’s “Freedom ’90″ video and its vamping supermodels, the model-turned-actress concept does not have an illustrious history. Naomi Campbell played a phone-sex operator in Girl 6, Tyra Banks a bartender in Coyote Ugly, Cindy Crawford–of all things!–a lawyer in the thriller Fair Game. It looked as Read More
The Queen of Spades,
Metropolitan Opera, begins March 11
The Finnish soprano Karita Mattila shows up for Tchaikovsky’s penultimate opera, based on a Pushkin short story. The whole affair is suitably black Russian: The opera’s title refers not merely to a femme fatale but to the card encountered while gambling. The opera itself deals Read More
Nine months after his mother’s death, Roland Barthes made a brief entry to his diary of mourning: “Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.” In the notes that make up his Mourning Diary, Barthes reflected on the particularity of an individual’s experience of loss, lamenting at once the “egoism” separating the mourner from Read More
“I am going to see how fast I can write a novel,” Blake Butler wrote on his blog, gillesdeleuzecommitted – suicideandsowilldrphil dot com, on April 14, 2008. “I am going to write nonstop on it until I am done. I started today at 12:30 p.m. and now have 4,500 words at 8:18. I hope to Read More
Okay, dance people, buckle up–March is going to be a bumpy month. It’s a modern-dance invasion. (Paul Taylor’s come and gone; everyone else is on his/her way.) Start figuring out your priorities now … next week will be too late.
To begin with: You’re going to be spending a lot of time at the Joyce. Read More
“When I was doing Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” said Chris Messina, “and Rebecca Hall was, like, giving me the side of her lips to kiss, because she wasn’t into me, you go home with that, you go home feeling unwanted.”
Mr. Messina is a nice guy known for playing “nice guys,” with all that the phrase Read More
On an evening last week at the Museum of Art and Design, Judy Chicago, vivid and flamboyant in a white silk bolero embellished with black lace, pointed to a boldly graphic tapestry titled Paddle Your Own Boat, and laughed. “People never get that there is humor in my work, but I think this is funny.” Read More
