On the road with Ballet Theatre. Who needs red velvet seats.
Dancers from the Boys and Girls Club before a class led by the American Ballet Theatre during its Across America tour in St. Louis, July 14, 2021. The company wasnt just performing outdoors. It was performing outdoors on a stage it had brought along, a stage on wheels that hydraulically unfolds from the form of a truck. Whitney Curtis/The New York Times.
by Brian Seibert
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- On an afternoon in mid-July, the heat index in Forest Park here was hovering in the upper 90s. Members of American Ballet Theatre, in town on tour, had just sweated through a company class that dancer Tyler Maloney likened to Bikram ballet. He and his colleagues were on an outdoor stage, and its floor was warming like a griddle.
American Ballet Theater to return to Lincoln Center in October
Catherine Hurlin, left, and Aran Bell in Jessica Langs Let Me Sing Forevermore at the David H. Koch Theater in New York, Oct. 16, 2019. Andrea Mohin/The New York Times.
by Peter Libbey
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- American Ballet Theatre will return to Lincoln Center for indoor performances in October, the company said Wednesday. Its homecoming season at the David H. Koch Theater is set to feature the world premiere of the work ZigZag by Jessica Lang and the stage debut of pieces by Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Rudd that were first shown online.
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Dine and Drink Deals
Here are a few options from restaurants and bars as we work our way back toward normal.
Casa Vega in Sherman Oaks teams with The Chainsmokers for two new menu items available through the end of May a sparkling grapefruit margarita with JaJa Reposado ($13) and a Crispy Papas Tacos entree ($16.50) with potatoes, spinach-jalapeño pesto and crema served with Spanish rice and refried beans
. Profits from these items, which will be sold through the month, benefit back-of-house restaurant workers through
Filipino restaurant Sisig opened last month in Westlake, offering lumpia, BBQ pork, crisp pata (pork skin attached to tender meat) and, of course, sisig a dish made from pig’s head and chicken liver.
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A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas
Any other year, theatergoers could seek out almost as many different staged versions of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale around town as there are official days in the holiday. During the pandemic, however, the most notable local production available for streaming is the unique one-man
tour de force that has been a popular draw at Maryland’s Olney Theatre Company for 11 years.
In fact, Olney held out hope until just last month that they could offer safe, reduced-capacity live performances of Paul Morella’s