Casel’s newest show is a vibrant, history-rooted celebration of tap dance and community. Photo: Patrick Randak “It’s been a mission of mine to transform the way audiences view and experience tap dance,” critically-acclaimed dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel told Observer. “Every show I do is an opportunity for that to happen.” We were discussing the […]
Jennifer Simard On Her ‘Death Becomes Her’ Onstage Partnership—And Tony Competition
Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard in Death Becomes Her. Matthew Murphy Jennifer Simard is nominated for a Tony this season, as Best Actress in a Musical. So is her Death Becomes Her co-star, Megan Hilty. Playing frenemies whose fur-flying ferocity lasts more than a lifetime or two, theirs is, almost, a dueling performance. One character couldn’t […]
‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ Lands in L.A.
At the Nimoy Theater, the composer’s story returns to the place where it originally unfolded. Photo: Liza Voll Austrian auto-didact, music theorist, pedagogue, writer and emancipator of dissonance, composer Arnold Schoenberg was a lot of things, but cuddly wasn’t one of them. “Uncompromising and pretty curmudgeonly, Schoenberg had a genius for getting people to hate […]