High, the new Broadway play starring Kathleen Turner as a recovering alcoholic nun, is something of a prolonged magic trick featuring an assortment of magicians, an appropriate enough choice for a play about religion and faith. Watch as David Gallo’s minimalist set appears and disappears! Marvel at how director Rob Ruggiero keeps Matthew Lombardo’s overwrought story in check! And gasp at Turner herself, a...

When I call Wonderland, the new musical adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland currently paying rent at the Marriott Marquis, a well-oiled machine, know that I have reached the bottom of the barrel when it comes to silver linings. Those Frank Wildhorn high notes are hit; sets change with precision; the choreography from Marguerite Derricks is performed with, if not show-stopping verve, at least professi...

Richard Move first incarnated Martha Graham—as dance icon, grande dame and dispenser of eloquent oracular truths—in 1996, and those Martha@ Mother performances (now legendary in their own right) launched a career path that is still thriving 15 years later. What began in a Meatpacking District nightclub has taken him to Town Hall, Berlin, London and Italy (where he declaimed La Graham’s words in Ital...

Within the history of Hollywood, it’s fair to say, exists a not-so-secret history of novelists being chewed up and spat out. Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Huxley, West: none achieved the same success at the movies, and rarely did they have nice things to say as the door swiftly hit them on the way out. In the shadows, less notable writers got tangled in the bureaucratic rigmarole, never to be heard from again. Presumab...

Avichai Scher speaks at a rapid clip and with intensely focused energy, and by all indications is a young man in a hurry. And hurry he must, as the 27-year-old is preparing to present the second season of Avi Scher & Dancers, an evening of his choreography performed by well-known dancers from New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre and three of the country’s finest ballet companies. Since it’s a sel...

Stake Land, a new independent film about feral vampires, is the latest collaboration between director Jim Mickle and writer-actor Nick Damici. The story takes place along the East Coast, as the narrator, played by Gossip Girl’s Connor Paolo, and his mentor-slash-guide—a renegade vamp slayer, played by Damici—trek north in an effort to survive the apocalypse in the “Land of Eden,” aka Can...

We’ve all been there: You walk into a gleaming white-box gallery where an elegant gallerina sits behind a designer table. She doesn’t seem to notice your entrance, doesn’t even deign to look up from her glowing computer screen as you walk through the hallowed rooms to see the art on the walls. If you ask her for a list of the works, she’s curt, dismissive. And you try to whisk by the expensive...