I was taken to this place by a recent performance of Einstein on the Beach, the landmark 1976 opera by composer Phillip Glass and Director Robert Wilson. Einstein is the first in a trilogy of avant-guarde operas.
Einstein On The Beach is a signal artistic achievement and happily remains as thrilling and rich an experience today as it was when I saw it in 1992.
The Big Bang may have been the theme of this year's Watermill Center extravaganza of a summer gala, with its outsized red phalluses, neon ninjas, and popping balloons, but many East End events make big noise.
One of the greatest send-ups of ballet can be seen in Fantasia. With its chubby-chasing zeal, Disney's comic treatment of the Dance of the Hours never fails to elicit laughs.
Chicago's City Council Finance Committee on Monday approved a $3.6 million settlement for a man who served nearly a decade behind bars on an attempted...
Not only is Bob a show about one of the most acclaimed theater and opera directors working today -- Robert Wilson -- it profiles him by using elements of his distinctive, ground-breaking style.
If you've never seen "The Threepenny Opera" before, its hilarity may surprise you. While the general maxim holds that life is bad and people worse, yo...
We arrive and lunatic cackling bounces off the walls. It could be a meth-fueled vision of an 18th century madhouse. Welcome to the Robert Wilson Annual Watermill Summer Benefit, this year titled "Voluptuous Panic."
Celebrating collaboration in the arts, the extravaganza featured an array of wildly clad actors in outlandish poses and postures, in haute melodrama befitting the theme: Voluptuous Panic.
It was to be the starriest artwork/theatrical event of the decade: an "opera" based on the life of the performance artist Marina Abramovic conceived a...
By Kiša Lala Lucrezia Borgia Film, Credit Mike Figgis, Courtesy ENO I was late arriving at Groucho's and Mike Figgis was already anxious. It was t...
Charles LeDray's works at the Whitney Museum are that of an obsessive-compulsive genius who has created a universe in the miniature.
© Antony Crook It's only autumn and we're already gearing up for the next edition of the Manchester International Festival (MIF), among the only...
Also, to be frank, I am a strong believer that art is tied to the ways of the world. We are in a period of cutbacks and downsizing. So, there was also a very practical reason why I had to do it - I had to survive like everyone else in these challenging times.
The African crime writing duo pick the best books in their field, from established greats Agatha Christie and John Le Carré to newer names on the sce...
A special interview with the artist shows, "If you sit in that chair and look at me after a while I am like the mirror of your own self-experience."
Throughout this month, Governors Island plays host to the Dutch government-sponsored New Island Festival, a two-week art extravaganza featuring provocative theater, installation, and music events.
One event lures even people who loathe the Hamptons out to Long Island's East End on the last weekend in August --The Last Song of Summer, a benefit for the Watermill Center.
What are the chances that on a given day you can see performances by American theater masters influenced by the Japanese arts?
Over the last 10 years Robert Wilson has given away about $500 million to various charities and he figures he has at least another $100 million to go.
This installment of Thank God It's Thursday plucks some recent press releases (left mostly intact) that might make you say "OMG" or "WTF", or possibly, "Swear you'll never, ever do this again."
Roughly a month after the advent of a law allowing the wrongfully convicted to circumvent the governor in seeking certificates of innocence, Gov. Rod ...
The New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Opera, is dark as it undergoes a year of renovation. It is a house of past and perhaps future artistic importance in two art forms.
