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Kenya The New York Times entertainment
19 Aug 2024
LONDON — You have probably seen Tobias Menzies in a host of television shows (“Outlander,” “Rome,” “Catastrophe,” “Game of Thrones”). You may have seen him in a movie (“Casino Royale,” “Atonement”). And if you’re a theater buff who visits England, you might have caught him in a number of leading roles (“The History Boys,” “Hamlet,” “Uncle Vanya”). He is that ascetically-but-unobtrusively-handsome actor, with those deep grooves running down each side of his face; the one who disappears so thor...
With 'The Crown,' a 'Secret Weapon' Could Become Not So Secret
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
18 Aug 2024
TAIPEI, Taiwan — A lunchtime bout of torrential rain, lightning and thunder couldn’t keep a crowd of intrepid souls from lining up at Liberty Plaza here Saturday. They simply put up their umbrellas.
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
17 Aug 2024
VILVOORDE, Belgium — Lily Collins, dressed in a mud-colored linen shift, tried to hide the small piece of jewelry she had crafted, as a hatchet-faced factory supervisor approached.
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
17 Aug 2024
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England — “What does a black man think has happened since South Africa had democratic elections in 1994? What does a white man think?”
Making Sense of South Africa's Journey
Kenya The New York Times world
9 Oct 2021
LONDON — Patricia McBride Lousada, who was a founding member of New York City Ballet and interpreter of some of George Balanchine’s seminal early works and who later became a noted cookbook author, died Jan. 8 in London. She was 89.
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
11 Jun 2021
LOS ANGELES — Between 1981 and 1998, Robert Rauschenberg created a self-portrait a quarter of a mile long.
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
11 Jun 2021
LOS ANGELES — Between 1981 and 1998, Robert Rauschenberg created a self-portrait a quarter of a mile long.
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
2 Jul 2019
NEW YORK — A high-profile group of international ballet stars from the Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater will come to the Joyce Theater from Aug. 6 through Aug. 18, for its 2019 Ballet Festival. Among the dancers: David Hallberg, Maria Kowroski, Robert Fairchild, Sarah Lamb and Joseph Gordon.
Joyce Theater Ballet Festival has a starry lineup
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
3 Jun 2019
“Everything That Happened” was commissioned by 14-18 NOW, a British cultural program that marked the centennial of World War I, and produced with Artangel, an intrepid London-based company that also worked with Goebbels on “Stifters Dinge,” in 2007.
Surrender to a boundary-blurring tour of Europe, war and peace
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
20 May 2019
WUPPERTAL, Germany — The stage resembles a large, elegantly high-ceilinged living room with a red carpet, sofas, chairs, a piano and two sets of tall French doors. A suggestion of trees in the darkness beyond hints at a garden. But as the lights slowly brighten, it becomes clear there is too much furniture, haphazard and oddly placed, for realism.
Nothing is random in a meditation on Shakespearean themes
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
8 May 2019
LONDON — “You have to be clear about where the movement is starting and where it’s going,” Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui said mildly as a group of Royal Ballet men struggled with a backward roll that involved scissoring legs and a one-knee landing. “You would be surprised how much weight needs to be on the elbow as you roll back.”
Beyoncé, Ballet and Points Between: A Choreographer Calmly Covers the Waterfront
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
28 Apr 2019
UFA, Russia — Oblivious to the freezing cold, a small boy, seated at the edge of a hill overlooking the wide Belaya River, held a wooden train high above his head. He angled it so that it appeared poised on a bridge spanning the gray water, taking people and goods perhaps to the far-off metropolises of Moscow or Leningrad.
The moment when Nureyev became Nureyev
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
22 Mar 2019
PARIS — A woman enters a studio apartment, makes herself some coffee and presses play on a tape recorder. “Sit at the piano,” a male voice on the tape says.
Ivo van Hove Unlocks a Rarely Staged 'Diary'
Kenya The New York Times entertainment
26 Feb 2019
Yes, we’re in Pina Bausch Land. Or rather, a land haunted by Pina Bausch. Dimitris Papaioannou’s “Since she” is the first new full-length work to be made for Bausch’s company, Tanztheater Wuppertal, since her death in 2009.
Two Choreographers at Work in a Pina Bausch-Haunted Land