Dance Theater of Harlem
Black History Month in Britain began in 1987 - many years after it was launched in America in 1926 and though it is was inspired by the American model is has it's own character. When the Dance Theater...
View ArticleKeith Haring, The Musical
The artist Keith Haring made his name in New York. He began with chalk drawings in the subways and gravitated to murals, political posters and T-shirts. His barking dogs, flying saucers and winged...
View ArticleRepertory Theater at BAM
The Brooklyn Academy of Music is into the closing stretch of an eight-week run, their longest run for a visiting company. They are presenting The Donmar Warehouse company form London directed by Sam...
View ArticleReactions to Broadway Strike Resolution
The Broadway musicals strike was settled this week. WNYC's Judith Kampfner spoke with one musician and one producer to find out what to listen for as the negotiated changes are put into play.
View ArticleThe Play What I Wrote
The time honored tradition of knockabout comedy is rarely seen on the Broadway stage. Now, a show from London's West End, called The Play What I Wrote , revives stock vaudeville routines. It also...
View ArticleDracula: Black and White and Red All Over
Not many modern independent film makers set out to reinvent the style of early cinema. Recently Canadian Guy Maddin set out to do just that. His black and white - and red - film version of the legend...
View ArticleFrom Brooklyn Heights to South Korea
For pictures and a weblog, click here.US officials recently announced that American troops will be withdrawn from the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, that narrow strip of land that separates North and...
View ArticleMermaid
Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux painted his own beach fantasy in 1942. It's called the Village of the Mermaids. The foreground tells one story, and in the distance there's a surprise. Judith Kampfner...
View ArticleKorean Music on Our Doorstep
This year, The Lincoln Center festival continues its exploration of world music with a focus on Korea. One New York-area performer who has been building an audience for Korean music is Jin Hi Kim....
View ArticleFlush In Brooklyn? Fughedaboudit.
The Cost of Living: Stories from the Front Lines in the Five BoroughsThe BronxStaten IslandBrooklynManhattanQueensAt Grand Army Plaza, the symbolic gateway to Brooklyn, are the borough's two main...
View ArticleCricket: The (Caribbean) American Pastime
John Adams once said that if president was a good enough title for the head of a cricket club, it was good enough for the leader of a country.Cricket has been around in America since the Founding...
View ArticleAfrobeat Music Gains New Audience
Nigerian Afrobeat music from the 1970's is gaining a brand new audience in New York. There are now a dozen young Afrobeat bands around town. Its creator Fela Kuti died in 1997. Judith Kampfner reports...
View ArticleTony Kushner's "Caroline, or Change" Coming Soon
Lead: A new musical with story and book by Tony Kushner called "Caroline, or Change" opens later in the month. It's the first time that Kushner has worked with director George C Wolfe since "Angels in...
View ArticleRussia Engages the World
The New York Public Library has one of the largest collections of Russian books, prints, maps and journals outside of Russia. Recently it opened a display of 230 written works they are complimented by...
View ArticlePoetry's Rock Star: Dylan Thomas
Listen to Dylan Thomas reading "On The Marriage of a Virgin"He had an appetite for women and drink but he said his chief love affair was with language. Described as the most musical poet of the...
View ArticleDutch Still Life
Visit Old Amsterdam/New Amsterdam at WNYCThe Dutch word for still life is "stilleven" which means arrested life - as if captured in a photograph. And in fact, modern food photography owes a great deal...
View ArticleDusting Off The Menorah
Preparing for the holidays means opening up cupboards, unearthing boxes from the basement and dusting off once a year decorations and family heirlooms. The menorah is one of these seasonal decorative...
View ArticleMermaid
Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux painted his own beach fantasy in 1942. It's called the Village of the Mermaids. The foreground tells one story, and in the distance there's a surprise. Judith Kampfner...
View ArticleFilms about Indigenous People Grab Spotlight
Feature films about indigenous people have been winning awards at film festivals over the last five years and are starting to become box office successes. The most recent of these was Whale Rider from...
View ArticleStill Life Sells
Home furnishings catalogs have evolved over the past couple of decades into glossy, sumptuous celebrations of domestic life (minus the mess). They're a far cry from the fuzzy line drawings of a Sears...
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