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Wife to James Whelan
feature Teresa Deevy's script all but disappeared for 70 years—until a relative found it in an attic trunk. The Irish playwright had a string of hits at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre in the 1930s.
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Detroit
feature “It’s high time indeed for a major new play” about the gradual death of the “middle-class suburban dream,” said Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune.
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The Little Foxes
feature Dutch director Ivo van Hove has transformed Lillian Hellman's play by moving it out of its early 1900s setting and allowing its heartless characters to stand unadorned.
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The First Breeze of Summer
feature The First Breeze of Summer is the Signature Theatre's opening play in a season devoted to offering the works of the Negro Ensemble Company.
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Benin: Kings and Rituals, Court Arts From Nigeria
feature Over the course of several centuries, the Edo people of Nigeria created sumptuous, sophisticated styles of sculpture, jewelry, and
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Fela!
feature The life story of Fela Kuti “can barely be contained on the stage,” said Jennifer Farrar in the Associated Pr
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Exhibition of the week: Chihuly at the De Young
feature It’s hard to believe that Dale Chihuly is “only now having his first comprehensive exhibition” at
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Vanities, A New Musical
feature This musical adaptation of Jack Heifner’s 1976 play follows three childhood best friends—“the bos
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Art and China’s Revolution
feature The Asia Society's exhibit of art from China's recent past shows the detrimental effects of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution.
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Opera: Il Trittico
feature Woody Allen's directorial debut in opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is a great success. His approach to Il Trittico “manages to be both irreverent and absolutely true to the music and the spirit of the work,&
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Bernini and the Birth of Baroque Portrait Sculpture
feature The Getty Center has put together the first major Bernini exhibition in the U.S.
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Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure From the Palaces of Europe
feature The tables, cabinets, clocks, snuffboxes, and other decorative objects in the Metropolitan Museum's exhibit are a magnificent introduction to the little-known art of pietre dure.
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Photo exhibitions: From the commonplace to the momentous
feature Philip-Lorca diCorcia at the L.A. County Museum of Art; Bill Wood at the International Center of Photography; Brett Weston at the Phillips Collection; August Sander at the Getty Center.
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Little House on the Prairie
feature Unfortunately, the musical version of Little House on the Prarie fails to
deliver the imaginative spark of the book or the television adaptation of the 1970s.feature