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After Big Success in L.A., Will "Art in the Streets" Make It Back to New York? After Big Success in L.A., Will "Art in the Streets" Make It Back to New York?
By Brian Chidester

On June 21, the Brooklyn Museum announced its cancellation of next year's "Art in the Streets," a graffiti exhibition that debuted recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in… More >>

<i>Rent</i> Gets a New Lease on Life Rent Gets a New Lease on Life
By Michael Feingold

Rent is back, and I for one don't feel inclined to complain. Naturally, I'm obliged to say that it isn't as good as the original—how could it possibly be?—but that… More >>

<i>The Talls</i> Falls Short The Talls Falls Short
By Michael Feingold

The distressing downward spiral of Second Stage's play selection continues with Anna Kerrigan's The Talls (McGinn-Cazale Theatre). The company's artistic goal here seems to involve renovating, or maybe just recycling,… More >>

The New York International Fringe Festival: A Roundup Review The New York International Fringe Festival: A Roundup Review
By Alexis Soloski

How little you need to make a play: one actor, one audience member. Or, as in the case of this year's Yeast Nation at the New York International Fringe Festival,… More >>

"Summer Shorts" Exposes Its Briefs "Summer Shorts" Exposes Its Briefs
By Alexis Soloski

A witch, a decapitated woman, some champagne-soaked revelers, and a disconsolate Jewish family walk into a theater. It sounds like the set-up to a very shaggy joke, but it’s merely… More >>

Best in Show: Sigmar Polke at Leo Koenig Best in Show: Sigmar Polke at Leo Koenig
By R. C. Baker

Whether his lens was focused on his own abstract drawings or capturing skeletons moldering away in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, German painter Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) reveled in ignoring standard… More >>

<i>Bitter Sweet</i>: If Less Were All Bitter Sweet: If Less Were All
By Michael Feingold

"Cowards die many times before their deaths," somebody says in Julius Caesar. But our time has changed all that. Today, at least if a Coward is a noted dramatic author,… More >>

<em>HotelMotel</em>: Get a Room! HotelMotel: Get a Room!
By Miriam Felton-Dansky

Most people check into hotels seeking R&R;, but you won’t feel rejuvenated after a stay at HotelMotel, the Amoralists’ disturbing double-feature. Derek Ahonen’s Pink Knees on Pale Skin and Adam… More >>

Whip It Good Whip It Good
By Harry Siegel

The modern prison era begins in 1961, the first of eight consecutive years when the incarceration rate plummeted while the crime rate spiked as the Warren Court issued a series… More >>

<em>Henry V</em> Tries to Be King of Uptown Henry V Tries to Be King of Uptown
By Joseph Pisano

Given the rioting in England this week, it would seem an incongruous moment for the Classical Theatre of Harlem to stage Henry V, whose famed St. Crispin’s Day speech—bookended by… More >>


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