Just how long will Lake Related stick around? The former site of the Houseman and Fairbanks theaters and other buildings on West 42nd Street has been left in a state of soggy indecision since the Department of City Planning blocked an attempt in February to get a zoning bonus by including Cirque du Soleil Read More
Last night, Community Board 4 approved a letter to the Department of City Planning that recommended several changes to the city’s zoning text regarding Theater Row, the area on 42nd Street between Ninth and 11th avenues.
The D.C.P. has been considering changes to “theater bonus” provisions in the area in part because of Read More
Can you really pronounce this?
It’s 9:15 on a Monday morning, and I’m surrounded by 30 perfectly sculpted women with abs of steel. I’m in “core fusion,” the wildly popular exercise class at Exhale on Madison Avenue and 77th Street, a “mind-body” spa where Upper East Side moms religiously congregate for an intense, one-hour workout to ensure fitting into their Read More
The City Center has been serving up a dance smorgasbord—30 companies on display, ranging from the less than sublime to the more than ridiculous. And it’s been a big success. In a brilliant stroke, made possible by serious underwriting, all tickets were $10, and the day the box office opened, the line went down the Read More
This shouldn’t take long. The new Boris Eifman ballet, Who’s Who , is just as ghastly as previous Eifman ballets, but instead of overwrought, like most of his work- Red Giselle , The Karamazovs , Tchaikovsky , Russian Hamlet -it’s underwrought. Since Eifman has a tiny (and ugly) dance vocabulary, and is completely unresponsive to Read More
I can’t imagine a more fantastic-or fantastically enjoyable-summer event than Villa Villa , created, and flown, by the extraordinary Argentine group known as De La Guarda. If you haven’t seen it yet, proceed to jail immediately. The show-if that’s the word for this flipped-out flying circus-must be seen by everyone at least twice for maximum Read More
