Fifteen years ago he was the manager of a mud show: a ragtag group of pellagra-riddled performers dragged from town to town by miserable thrush-hoofed horses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“We are but poor circus performers,” the Sicilian explained. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was a pretty spectacular performer, just like the punk singers I loved. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It is sometimes difficult to discern performer from patron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A steady stream of circus performers comes to see them in between acts, taking turns holding them and inevitably remarking on their exquisite timing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Street performers played accordions and walked low tightropes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As the last of the crowd goes through to the big top and performers line up for the Grand Spec, Uncle Al pulls August aside. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Several of the performers and staff have gathered, waiting anxiously. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Within days leading performers and conductors began to telegraph their disapproval to the DAR. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

At this end of the train, where most of the onlookers are performers, I am regarded with frosty amusement. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And every time a show closed, there was Uncle Al, sopping up the remains: a few train cars, a handful of stranded performers, a tiger, or a camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Anderson and other prominent performers were urged to announce publicly that they would no longer appear before segregated audiences. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“The embassy gate will have to be open. Maybe we shouldn’t worry about breaking into the Ice Court. Maybe we should just walk in with the performers.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The agency,” said Takumi, “says the performer is on his way.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The circus is preparing for a stretch near London, having recently departed Dublin, so there are a handful of performers present. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I waited for my father to show the mayor the sharp side of his tongue, to explain the difference between mere traveling performers and Edema Ruh. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As it happened, Zooey had made a formal and serious début as a public performer at the age of seven. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He also organized a cadre of professional applauders, known as a “claque,” to provide enthusiastic ovations, demand encores, and cry “Brava!” for any performer willing to pay. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As the dancing had begun, Anh had perched next to the performers. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Lon hadn’t known what the Book was, but he could feel his path forking before him: Down one path was the life of a street performer, spinning fortunes for spare change. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Mercury’s radio dramas weren’t as popular as the programs featuring comedian Jack Benny, ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy, or Major Bowes and his Amateur Hour performers. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The performers make last-minute adjustments to their costumes, and the animal handlers give their charges one last check. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Twelve of the fire performers quietly enter the courtyard with small platforms that they set up along the perimeter like numbers on a clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There are no performers save the band, as it is difficult to hire entertainment to impress a gathering that is comprised predominantly of circus members. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“His outfit is a little bizarre. I thought he was a performer of some sort when I first came in, although I tried not to imagine the nature of his act.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also depict expert performers of high status, including members of royal dynasties and deities. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One night at a small concert headlined by Iron Butterfly, Scruggs was drawn to one of the other performers, Country Joe. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She was just a performer, like a singer or an actress, doing a show for money. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It means, Jacob, that in order to accommodate less than a dozen performers, we will now have sixty-four working men sleeping under wagons on the flats.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The First World War had ended before he completed his flight training, but he often wrote about combat pilots and aerial performers in his fiction. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There’s no red velvet or chandeliers; instead, it’s a magnificently simple place, the walls and ceiling paneled in light wood, to showcase the performance and the performer. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The cars that house the performers and bosses are connected by metal plates, so all I have to do is make sure I land on it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In musicals, it doesn’t matter how many performers are in a number—all eyes turn to Britney. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The songs vary from jazz standards to boy band covers, but all the performers have one thing in common: they sort of suck. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

We’re caught in the act, lit up like performers on a stage. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Chord symbols also may be used even when an accompaniment is written out, so that performers can read either the chord symbol or the notated music, as they prefer. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There are some ways to avoid having to do the transposition yourself, but learning to transpose can be very useful for performers, composers, and arrangers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She was amazing, so apsara-like, he felt bad for the other performers. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For the first time in the show’s history, there is no money for performers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

These patterns emphasize the differences between the stronger and weaker beats to help the performers keep track of where they are in the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A sign above the flap read: performers only. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Theoreticians then study the resulting music and discover good ways of explaining it to the audience and to other composers and performers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A good performer will be familiar with dozens of ragas and can improvise music — traditional classical music in India is improvised — using the accepted format for each raga. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I brush my teeth and run through the list of props and the names of the performers, what’s the order, who didn’t show up to rehearsal yesterday. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Since black performers were not welcome at most of the country’s concert halls, he sang mainly at black churches and colleges. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Music theory, too, always comes along after a group of composers and performers have already developed a musical tradition. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Two parts for different performers written on the same staff — If the parts have the same rhythm, they may be written as block chords. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

We were like two performers in a play, but we were divided, we were not acting with one another. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Those Rommely women had a weakness for any kind of man who was by way of being a creator or a performer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If not the deepest thinker among Volpe’s actors, Britney is probably the most comfortable onstage, a performer who loves the lights. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

However, the society soon found that it could not enforce this segregated seating policy when black performers appeared in the hall. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The performances were sacred; the spectators, too, along with the writers and the performers, were engaged in an act of worship. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple could see, flush from the endorphins of a great performance, why actors and performers got addicted to this kind of thing. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Rubes are still rubes, and you can still tell the performers from the workers. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He was like a circus performer who liked to set plates spinning: If things got too calm, he took it as a sign that there was more to do. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We have already witnessed black music being “bleached’ for greater commercial appeal a number of times, often to the dismay of its original performers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

While she didn’t care much for the Night Zoo’s shows, Jabir took them in stride, a natural performer. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

There were galleries and underground theaters where artists and performers dared to speak up and criticize the government in front of integrated crowds. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was getting the act cheap, and she had to admit that die bird was very good, a skilled and professional performer who almost made up for the act’s human deficiencies. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he builds the assassination scheme in his head, layer by layer, everything is designed to make him the star performer. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mandy lived with us as cook and godmother of our children—and secret performer of small magic to protect us from colds, broken crockery, and the sundry inconveniences of a royal household. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Such wonders you have never seen, ladies and gentlemen, acts and performers gathered from the four corners of the earth to delight and entertain you, acrobats, and tumblers, and aerialists of the highest caliber.... Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I see her in the halls, but Poplar Springs is so different from Iqra Academy, like a big, noisy circus where all the performers know each other except me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He must have rolled all of the clay into one long pink coil and looped it once, twice around his shoulders like a circus performer's boa. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mnemonists, the performers who amaze us by regurgitating superhuman amounts of information, have spent a lot of time building up a huge inventory of chunks in their long-term memories. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Cheerful and outgoing, he was a natural performer who enchanted audiences with his singing and transfixed them with his ballroom dancing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even played on the college’s first soccer team, where he was a star performer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone grabbed George’s hand and brought her into the line of performers. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I am at my best, as a performer, when playing dead or being fake-punched. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I think about Madge and the way she makes people laugh, and Melba and the subway performer. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

After reviewing the judges’ backgrounds, she’d decided to take a picture of performers dancing the South American tango. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There were acrobats and ropedancers and knife-throwers and fire-eaters and street performers of every type. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A sketch where the skinnier performer took off his dilapidated boot and counted his toes over and over again, constantly losing his place, generated the loudest reaction. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Blake, who was from Maryland, was the only surviving child of eight born to former slaves, and like Chaplin he had learnt his trade as a vaudeville performer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As the room fills with performers and siblings and parents and grandparents and aunts and uncles, I start to feel that awful feeling again. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unlike Dad and Henry, who as they got older and had families became less music performers than music connoisseurs, Kerry stayed single and stayed faithful to his first love: playing music. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like me, they're thinking of something positive to say once the spectacle is over and the performer takes up her post beside the front door. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There would be a talent show, and performers were invited to audition. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The performers and animals are lined up out back, ready to start the Spec. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Like a rude commoner watching performers on some village green, Hamlet commented loudly throughout the play. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

While most of the performers are spending the night in the city visiting old friends and favorite pubs, Celia Bowen sits alone in her backstage suite. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But his parents had been gone for six months, traveling with a troupe of other acrobats and actors and street performers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

You watch the performance from this precarious vantage point, directly below the performers with nothing in between. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So sometimes the answer to "Why is it that way?" is simply "that's what is easiest for the performer," or "they borrowed that from an earlier music tradition." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

So a composer may very well prefer to write an E sharp, because that makes the note's place in the harmonies of a piece more clear to the performer. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Carlos was always wondering aloud whether or not the other performers were any good. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The performers spent their afternoon with young people who’d come from local high schools—budding playwrights, dancers, and rappers kicking around the White House, writing lyrics and dropping beats with their heroes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There were usually at least eight wagons in our troupe and well over two dozen performers: actors and acrobats, musicians and hand magicians, jugglers and jesters. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hazel walked over to where the performers were, past the saxophonist and the orator. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And of course, The Mike Douglas Show five days a week because Mike Douglas always had Negro performers on his variety show. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sufficient interval having elapsed for the performers to resume their ordinary costume, they re-entered the dining-room. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When possible, listening to a professional play the piece can help with tempo decisions, but it is also reasonable for different performers to prefer slightly different tempos for the same piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There are dozens of performers throughout the tent, bathed with light from glowing round lamps that hang high above amongst ropes and chairs and round cages. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“So why can’t I just call them performers all the time?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At White’s suggestion, telegrams were sent out to prominent members of the musical community, asking them to protest the DAR’s ban on black performers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“Consider: Would we even know who Shakespeare was if a whole troupe of performers and stagecraft people hadn’t helped him put on his plays?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

We asked so little of our performer, really. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

At a hitch near one of the pens, a Cossack performer tended to his horse. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After several more minutes, a group of Cossack performers appeared from one of the tents. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All the other performers grumbled at him because, they said, he was eating more than his share of the food. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In this sense, these media have been good for audiences and bad for performers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

E.T. - the most famous alien of our time; seeking a very small woman or accomplished professional midget performer. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s dusk, and several parties have already started at the performers’ end of the train, including—I can’t help but notice—one in Marlena and August’s car. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In fact, by the age of twenty, the elite performers had each totaled ten thousand hours of practice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The rest of the working men stalk off, spitting and swearing, leaving only performers and bosses in line. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the performers and patrons would get arrested, sometimes not. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Families congratulated the performers at the front of the stage. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

This was usually not a heavy burden, as the nobility who frequented the Eolian usually gave money or gifts to performers who pleased them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally the last performer, Jimi Hendrix, took the stage Monday morning with his band. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

This rule is especially important when the two parts cross; otherwise there is no way for the performers to know that the "low" part should be reading the high note at that spot. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Their research suggests that once a musician has enough ability to get into a top music school, the thing that distinguishes one performer from another is how hard he or she works. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Next in order came a few mortals so excellent in their art that they almost equaled the divine performers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there was applause, it was for a performer. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere, there are flaming hoops perched at different levels that performers slip in and out of with ease, as though the hoops were only metal and not encased in flickering flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I do not ask whether you are musical, Mrs. Elton. Upon these occasions, a lady’s character generally precedes her; and Highbury has long known that you are a superior performer.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Crowds of people were congratulating the performers, surrounding them, patting them on the back. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then the auditorium becomes a circus, with performers doing flips down the aisles and trapeze acrobats twisting and flipping above them. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And it seems to be completely abandoned, with no sign of any workers or performers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Both her parents worked as performers at Disney World, which sounds like more fun than it was. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I sprint around back to where the performers and ring stock are lined up behind the big top in preparation for the Spec. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

We had to sit through the other performers, but finally it was time for the five brothers to return, and Diana Ross introduced them: The Jackson Five. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Mostly, though, it is up to the performer to know what is considered proper for a particular piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The Greeks began a process that became unusually pronounced in Western music: emphasis on a VIP class of performers whose brilliance was intended to strike awe and enchantment into the hearts of the ordinary listener. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And a performer, just like my mother used to be, touring the country, the world, to tell everyone about the New China that Chairman Mao had built and how it was becoming stronger and stronger. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he looked like some kind of priest come to preach to a group of circus performers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Rule Rasmussen, a Norwegian concert manager, and Kosti Vehanen, a Finnish pianist, were traveling through Europe in search of talented performers. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

In many other situations, the performer is left to decide how to play the chord most effectively. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A number of African American performers, among them Roland Hayes, Alberta Hunter, and Josephine Baker, escaping racism in the United States, had enjoyed successful careers in England and France. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Feigning offense, Emma said, “Of course we’re performers,” and to demonstrate, she made a tiny flame on the tip of her finger and stubbed it out in her eye. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Horses in vaulting acts are always white so that the powdered rosin that makes the performer’s feet stick to their backs won’t show. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Acrobats dangled from cords over the canal, lithe bodies garbed in nothing but glitter, while street performers played their fiddles, hoping to garner a coin or two from passersby. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

During the late 1930s she was heard in living rooms across America as a popular radio performer, appearing on such widely listened-to programs as The General Motors Hour and The Ford Hour. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The third concept from Merriam’s model concerns our behavior as performers, audience members, listeners, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But Presto was always on the lookout for ever-freakier performers and knew I’d give him an edge over his competitors on the Strip. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The performers stretch grumpily and gather in groups to talk and smoke as the workmen drop ramps and unload stock. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Everybody with legs would come out to see any performer who bore the magic name “New York.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to the music, detecting two popular songs which he particularly disliked, and scrutinized the credits closely to find any names of performers who normally nauseated him. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t hear the jokes, but even if we could, I knew the two performers were not the surprise we waited for. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She told me once that back-sleepers were the leaders in life, born performers or exhibitionists. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Bailey has been in this tent several times, he knows the open floor with the performers hanging above it well. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If ‘Romantic’ still means anything specific in the history of music, it best refers to a period when the composer’s or performer’s personal emotions, or sentiment, became paramount in the dialogue between music and audience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

From my vantage point, I could barely make out the individual faces of the performers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Organizers invited an exhilarating mix of performers: there would be rock and roll, rhythm and blues, folk and country. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She became a role model, inspiring generations of African American performers who followed her. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Since September she had been a performer— unique and outrageous—on the high school stage. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Such a chord can be dominant, major, or minor; the performer must take care to play the correct third and seventh. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I take off my cap and bow like the performers at the Playhouse. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“My feelings were so deep that I have never forgotten it, and I don’t think until I leave this earth I will ever forget it,” recalled opera and theater performer Todd Duncan. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

J. S. Bach was probably the cleverest composer who ever lived, but he gave his performers almost no detailed instructions as to how they might play his sublime music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Jack’s a performer, waving his arms around and using goofy expressions to tell his stories, and it makes me crack up. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

For those in the audience, Obama’s speech was an old tune sung by an exciting new performer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It passes unnoticed by any of the patrons, and many of the performers are not aware of it until after the fact. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A piece of music, or one performer's part in that piece, may also be described as having a range, from the lowest to highest note written for the performer in that piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Because he was one of the performers, Country Joe was allowed to hang out on the stage, where people were busy running sound and equipment checks. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

From then on, Anderson and other black performers began to appear regularly in the hall, and segregation was no longer an issue. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The performers immediately sequester themselves in their train cars. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In the 1930s, track was hugely popular, and its elite performers were household names. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Contrary to popular belief, not all traveling performers are of the Ruh. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing like a good audience to encourage a performer. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A menagerie man? Forget it. I’m a performer. There’s no way I’m bunking with a working man.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Elevating attraction in this way objectifies performers and turns them into arty lap dancers and Chippendales. Pecs v performance: the flaws of attraction in theatre 2010-09-22T15:36:00Z

Steinberg considered accessibility from the start of the creative process, and produced scores that were tailored to each performer’s needs. When Technology Makes Music More Accessible 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z

Now Flory-Barnes hits On the Boards with his autobiographical, music and story-driven show, featuring a full orchestra and local performers from The True Loves to Seattle Girls Choir. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Now, in a year that saw a record number of Asian performers nominated in the acting races, Quan has added an Academy Award to that shelf of statuettes. Ke Huy Quan Wins Best Supporting Actor Oscar, Capping a Remarkable Comeback 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

Christopher Lee, the courtly British actor who died at age 93 this week, was a prolific performer who made more than 275 movies during a screen career stretching back to the 1940s. Christopher Lee dies: Six of his sinister villain roles 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

This maverick performer may deal in avant-garde instrumentation and arrangements, but his subject matter remains inviolable; the inarticulate speech of the heart. James Blake – review 2013-04-10T15:15:01Z

Until this point, Ibn Ali has been seen as an idiomatic performer and composer, though perhaps not a consequential or definitive figure of the genre. The Pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali’s Lone Album Arrives, 56 Years Later 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

And if you’re a performer with the drive and resources of Rita Wilson, whose new show opened at Café Carlyle on Tuesday night, that hope is not just a fantasy but a real possibility. Review: Rita Wilson’s Peaceful Easy Feeling 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

“I think yeah, he’s a performer,” she said over the phone. How Dasha Nekrasova Is Calling the Shots 2021-12-19T05:00:00Z

Nearly everyone pictured was also wearing a protective face covering, aside from a few park employees making announcements or performers in the live-action shows. Shanghai Disneyland: Photos of reopened park show social-distancing markers, half-empty rides 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

A news release says the performers "frolic in a watery world suspended just above the audience." Usher joins cast of off-Broadway play for 1 day 2012-04-19T21:34:16Z

Their tiger growls at the cameras flopped, their gyrations were forced — and Gaga stood out as the A-grade performer she is. Move over Galliano, Lady Gaga makes debut 2011-03-03T16:17:00Z

They said the president personally selected the performers. Beyonce, Clarkson to perform at Obama inauguration 2013-01-09T14:53:10Z

“She’s a great performer, in that you never see her rehearsals — it looks completely spontaneous.” A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

This year’s lineup of performers similarly aims for broad appeal, with a range of genres represented. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Four of the 10 performers who will share the lead roles in Let It Be took to the rooftop bar of a London hotel to perform six of the Fab Four's hits. Beatles musical has London launch 2012-08-23T16:45:49Z

Both amateur and professional performers will be taking a selection of socially engaged, not to say downright angry, work to Edinburgh this year – and much of it is in deadly earnest. The fringe turns angry as shows plan to deliver a political punch 2013-07-20T11:30:29Z

There’s a tradition, too, of British performers going to Hollywood and returning with their wits intact to write up the experience in best-selling memoirs: David Niven set the bar with “The Moon’s a Balloon.” This Season’s Best Books on Hollywood 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

As with the first simulcast, this year's edition will feature movie, TV and sports stars and musical performers. 'Stand Up To Cancer' TV fundraiser returns 2010-05-19T07:00:00Z

Within this painterly setting — Tuçe Yasak’s lighting manages to change the temperature from hot to cool — the performers generate and manipulate the sound. A Choreographer Gives In to His Ambition of Recklessness 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Blitz and Hummingbird – the two worst performers – are both London-set tales aiming for more dramatic heft among the thrills and spills. Despicable Me 2 beats double challenge of Wimbledon and Glastonbury 2013-07-03T08:00:12Z

Unlike many prominent younger composers, he hasn’t founded his own ensemble, played regularly as a performer or collaborated with pop musicians. Andrew Norman on Loving ‘Star Wars’ and Pushing Musical Boundaries 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

The performers, who were often terrible, would be allowed to go on until one of the judges couldn’t stand it anymore and sounded a gong, putting an end to the spectacle. Chuck Barris, Eclectic Entertainer of ‘Gong Show’ Fame, Dies at 87 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

After fielding 98 applications from dance artists worldwide, On the Boards is presenting 16 performers in this festival of new work, which considers the role of the solo as a “fundamental building block” of dance. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for October 2018 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Local performers have banded together for a night of comedy with a cause at Union Hall. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

By jazz's sometimes taciturn standards, Courtney Pine is an affably charismatic performer, but at root he's a serious man. Courtney Pine ? review 2011-03-09T19:30:00Z

It may have been a matter of money, or he may have wanted to see what he could accomplish with non-Hollywood performers. Movie Review: ‘Magic Mike,’ by Steven Soderbergh, With Channing Tatum 2012-06-28T21:57:03Z

His company of performers, a mix of professionals and amateurs, speak Shakespearean verse with conversational ease, and we can always understand what they’re saying and what they mean. Theater Review: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost,’ at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Fest 2012-07-31T22:20:55Z

Among the best performers last week was “The Book of Mormon,” which grossed $1,445,407 – second only to the gross of $1.5 million for “Wicked,” which is often the biggest draw on Broadway. ArtsBeat: Even With a Jonas, a Box-Office Drop for 'How to Succeed' 2012-01-30T22:42:01Z

Surely no body of mortal flesh could undergo the quicksilver transformations achieved by this singular performer, in a melting memoir of a production that upends and scrambles all definitions of gender. Theater Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Far more worrisome is what Erivo’s nomination suggests about the way Academy voters evaluate performers of colour, who seem to be the most visible, and taken the most seriously, within the trappings of white pity. Slaves, nannies, and maids: Oscars value women of colour – in subservient roles 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Standing in for the missing performers were dolls wearing the band’s outfit, topped with iPads showing their faces. Eurovision, Celebrating the Sounds of a Postpandemic Continent 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z

The 10 performers seem driven by intense energies that combine folk dance with expressionism — and they look impressively sincere. Review: Doom, Doom Everywhere (and Just a Drop of Joy) 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The 90-minute production features live music by Ms. Spector and her band, as well as images and monologues by the performer; door opens at 6 p.m. Spare Times for July 13-19 2012-07-12T21:16:13Z

He was the consummate performer, the ultimate showman. Books of The Times: ‘Untouchable,’ Michael Jackson’s Life, by Randall Sullivan 2012-11-12T21:52:09Z

Considering the performer's public actions this week, it's hard to imagine she'd ever have signed on for that. The “Roseanne” revival we really needed is the one they’d never make 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Roberts is still an admirably fresh dancer, but in each Ailey performer over the years you start to notice some increasing tough-old-trouper ingredient. Dance Review: A Physical Choreography, Turning Women Into Targets 2010-12-16T23:06:06Z

The performers are less interested in mocking the will to euphoria than in showing the pain that underlies it. | 'The Momentum': Life Is an Existential Cabaret, My Friend 2011-02-09T01:42:27Z

Once technicians got the sound more under control, though, performers began to stand out on the basis of their voices. Benedict Cumberbatch's Star Trek villain speaks with the voice of reason 2013-05-15T18:44:34Z

The following year, Birdland unveiled Birdland Theater, a space that has accommodated longer runs by Broadway performers and emerging jazz artists as well as freewheeling variety shows. Broadway’s Beloved Basement Club, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Turns 10 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z

Ralph Kaminsky, who died in January 2012 at 85, was not a performer, composer or arts executive but a music lover with a passion for discovery and a benefactor whose quiet generosity bolstered his community. Music Review: Contemporary Music Groups Honor Ralph Kaminsky, Merkin Hall 2013-02-05T22:56:25Z

He was the rare solo performer to incorporate live instruments into his set. Decibel Festival on the cutting edge | Concert review 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

A dressing-room door opens revealing two other performers who eventually join in, but they are distractions. Gibney Dance’s DoublePlus Series Opens 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The only performer to bring this concert’s audience spontaneously to its feet was Julie Wilson, now 88, making a rare stage appearance, talk-singing “But Beautiful.” Music Review: Mabel Mercer and Bobby Short Tribute at Town Hall 2013-05-17T20:59:23Z

Mary J. Blige and D’Angelo -- two performers who at various points in their careers threatened to disappear -- made a night of it Thursday at the United Center. Concert review: Mary J. Blige and D'Angelo at the United Center 2012-09-14T07:07:00Z

Nevertheless they are not performers with an obvious cultural affinity, and the overlap between their fan bases could probably fit in a phone booth. Review: ‘The Last Two People on Earth’ Offers Soft-Shoe Après Déluge 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z

The performers look at the crowd before turning to each other — their eyes are trusting, huge, brown — but throughout the performance contradictory forces are at play, and their gazes flicker between warmth and distance. Dance Review: Maria Hassabi?s New Dance, ?Show? - Review 2011-11-04T21:34:34Z

“We’ll be back in the theaters — performers will be performing, audiences will be enjoying it,” he said. Fauci Suggests Theaters Could Reopen ‘Some Time in the Fall’ 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z

Although individual costumes and performers and décors helped, the other dances of each program were unimportant. Fall for Dance Festival Is Short but Packed 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

Still, it was two records for the price of one — and the performers on the Dolphin imprints were no slouches. In 'Recorded in Hollywood,' Dolphin family's lore crosses over into R&B history 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

If Sunday's benefit doesn't succeed, the performers say they will throw another concert, and another one, until they can afford to buy her a new hip. Down on luck diva faces surgery, mounting bills 2010-12-04T17:37:00Z

But you also have to hope that it will widen its net a bit to include more American performers. English Ensembles Crown a Festival of Early Music 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Two years ago during a rehearsal for an eight-person pyramid stunt to break a Guinness world record, something went awry, and five performers were injured, falling 30 feet. Nik Wallenda worries for his sister ahead of latest stunt 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

As a physical performer whose balletic, almost feminine grace made his stunt sequences appear effortless and unrehearsed, he apparently held others to his own impossible standards. "The Circus": Chaplin's little-known masterpiece 2010-07-14T01:01:00Z

In pop music especially, plenty of the most famous performers essentially eschew the press: Taylor Swift hasn’t given a substantive interview and access to a print publication for at least two years. R.I.P., the Celebrity Profile 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Tim Connaghan, a New York-based Santa Claus performer who is the official Santa for Toys for Tots, plans to do a few live, in-person, socially distanced events, but the cancellations hurt, and not just financially. Santa Claus is coming to town. Try not to infect him. 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Virtually every consideration of George Lewis, an imposing performer and scholar now serving as a professor and the vice chairman of the music department at Columbia University, will invoke the term trombonist-composer. Music Review: George Lewis, Composer Portrait, at Miller Theater - Review 2011-11-13T23:12:08Z

From the academy: "Only performers appearing in less than 50% of a program's episodes are now eligible to submit in the guest actor category." Emmys 2015: Rule changes and why we don't have to wake up so darn early 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

Improvisation, once a staple of any performer’s arsenal, is no longer common practice for most classical musicians. New Recordings: ‘Silfra,’ by Hilary Hahn and Hauschka 2012-07-08T03:53:26Z

Browse the seasonal bounty, jostle among buskers and street performers, and visit Prism, a market-adjacent boutique where offerings recently ranged from artwork by the local illustrator Sierra Graves to unisex perfumes from Ballard-based Blackbird. 36 Hours in Seattle 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

Watts is a supremely expressive actress and, like Astaire, a full-body performer. ‘Infinite Storm’ Review: Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Extreme 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

It’s the rare show that is best when the performers seem to forget the audience, losing themselves in conversation the way actors appear to do in a play. In ‘2 Dope Queens’ a Duo Muses Over Life, and Stanley Tucci 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

Aaron David Miller was the only performer in concert tails. Originality enlivens the birthday party for Hurricane Mama 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

Without the "big chasm" created by an orchestra pit designed to hold a full-scale orchestra, Wheeldon suggests, performers feel more connected to the audience. Ballet stars talk Tony-nominated 'An American in Paris' and Broadway leap 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Her agent introduces her to performer Max Hardcore, notorious for abusing and humiliating women during filming. The Hardcore truth about women in porn 2011-07-14T20:01:01Z

No one involved seems to have realized the insurmountable issue: Re-enacting the hardships of real people with performers turns those people into characters, so their stories lose the ring of truth. At Glamorous French Festivals, Poverty is Only Onstage 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

This week’s performer is Big Bang Boom, a power-pop band made up of dads who are also professional musicians. Spare Times for Children, for June 28-July 4 2013-06-27T21:20:15Z

Less a performer than a songwriter, Mr. Paxton quickly tired of touring and quit the road in favor of the Hollywood recording life. Gary S. Paxton, music maverick who produced ‘Monster Mash,’ dies at 77 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

After a while, performers and writers leave the nest—bigger stages, television, movies—but remain part of an extended family. Ars Nova’s Brilliant Career 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

Theatre previews are invaluable for giving performers a chance to adjust such tonal imbalances: for brightening this colour and damping that. Carmen; Juan Diego Fl?rez ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:31Z

In pre-digital, black-and-white days, that meant many hours in the dark room after the session itself, which performers always enjoyed because of her discretion and lively mind. Zo? Dominic obituary 2011-01-18T18:28:56Z

Record of the Year goes to the performer and the producers. Grammys: The Nominees For Song Of The Year Are... 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Oyelowo noted that two of the top films at the box office this week are led by black performers. David Oyelowo Says the Academy 'Has a Problem' 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Some of that inspiration is derived from Mr. Van Horn’s Seattle days, when he studied theater and performed in what he called “subversive, edgy and dark” cabaret with performers like Ryan Landry and Dan Savage. Stimulus Programs That Roll at Night 2010-03-04T06:50:00Z

Confusion over various editions allows the performer a build-your-own approach to the piece. Review | With fleet fingers, pianist Dénes Várjon brings German classics to life 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

There are effective moments, as when the performers, dressed in white, hold hands and rotate in a single, pristine line while sticking close together for support. Dance Review: For Healing, Not Words but Bodies in Motion 2011-04-03T21:57:05Z

Bell grew up with Cosby — “I was raised by Fat Albert” — but he also has a sharp critic’s eye as a performer himself. ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ (Among Others.) 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

The performers were disguised as members of the public, and the audience wandered around, hearing the music on headphones. Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

As that team counted, competitor Julie Louis was tracing the seemingly meaningless shape that the performer walked. Veteran Post Hunt champions take the prize once again

Of course, Bryn is a great singer, but beyond that he’s an amazing performer, a schmoozer, a charmer. A Hungry Singer, Consuming His Roles 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z

The public is learning that it can do without actual art objects as long as there is a payoff, preferably moving video images or live performers and a modicum of nudity. Hold That Obit; MoMA?s Not Dead 2010-12-30T16:49:20Z

She also stated on stage that at the musical workshops the performers "sing it better than us." Spice Girls in raucous reunion to promote musical 2012-06-26T15:36:44Z

But in this case, other performers will be giving melodious voice to the always arresting musings of this take-no-prisoners comedian. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Every Saturday morning through September, the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, the Central Park Conservancy and the Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Center bring narrative performers to this beloved statue. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Khaled C'est La Vie Wrasse Records The most popular performer in the Arab world looks for a new, younger audience and takes a step backwards. Khaled: C'est la Vie – review 2013-02-14T22:10:02Z

New York audiences got their first glimpse of this high-energy performer when St. Ann’s Warehouse mounted her play “Brand New Ancients” last January. Kate Tempest, a British Triple Threat, Crosses the Pond 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s easy to see how the human performers — black-clad and masked — manipulate these materials; sometimes the postindustrial creatures seem to move without any human help at all. Review: Mummenschanz Offers Wonder, and a Grumpy Trash Bag 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

All that practice proved vital for Morrison, who wasn't a natural performer. 11 surprising facts about Jim Morrison 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z

But as the wide swath of performers, celebrities and civic leaders at the service at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan attested, Mr. Hamlisch’s music had been a common thread that wove together disparate lives. Marvin Hamlisch Funeral at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan 2012-08-14T21:46:29Z

Touch of Evil A video gallery of cinematic villainy, inspired by nefarious icons and featuring the best performers from the year in film. Awards Season: The Golden Globes 2012-01-13T23:42:11Z

DiCaprio has never really belonged to the same species of performer. Two men. One dream 2010-08-05T07:00:00Z

With the help of two assistants on the sides, Guillois, a maverick of a performer, spins lo-fi yet meticulous choreography out of these props. A Quirky Parisian Festival Refinds Its Footing 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

On Saturday, Nov. 9, the lights outside Shepherd’s Bush Empire, a refurbished theater  in London’s West End, offer a hint — “Electric Samurai” — of the evening’s featured performer. A Japanese Rock Star Sets His Eyes on America 2013-11-14T15:50:29Z

Two shows co-produced by Mr. Seller, “Rent” and “Avenue Q,” agreed to share a small part of their profits with performers involved in the development process. ‘Hamilton’ Producers and Actors Reach Deal on Sharing Profits 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

“And you guys have the breadth of heart and feeling to want to come and celebrate all of these songs. That’s phenomenal. . . . We are now in uncharted territory for a performer and crowd.” Review | Why isn’t John Mayer’s music as weird as John Mayer? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hadreas is less assured as a performer than as a sufferer. Music Review: Perfume Genius, Singing and Suffering at 92Y Tribeca 2010-07-22T20:58:00Z

The real-life performers play rough versions of themselves, snagging occasional lovers and going through a series of numbers along the way. Bond baddie brings burlesque film to Cannes 2010-05-13T13:53:00Z

The blending of gender imagery is common in rock and pop, but the central value of equality, even between performers and audience has made humanist gender relations the ideal in indie. Ask the indie professor: Are gender stereotypes still present in indie music? 2010-09-01T11:59:00Z

The performers will take the stage on the West Lawn of the U.S. Broderick to headline DC July Fourth celebration 2012-06-12T13:06:48Z

The performer Elaine Stritch died in 2014 at 89 after over 70 years appearing in plays, musicals, film, television, cabaret and newspaper gossip columns, telegrams and Twitter, saloons and recovery meetings. Love Elaine Stritch? Thank the Parts She Didn’t Get 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

I realized early on as a performer and choreographer that self-expression is not interesting to others. The Creative Mid-Life: Mark Morris on Dance, Aging and Immortality 2013-06-06T12:00:01Z

The quirks of Emmy categorization mean that she’s likely to be up against performers from miniseries like American Crime, The People v. Review: Audra McDonald's Lady Day on HBO is a Moving Parable of Fame 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

He was always plugged into Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and he identified himself as a hillbilly music performer.” ‘Your Land,’ and Woody Guthrie’s, Preserved 2012-07-11T14:15:14Z

She’s part of a new generation of performers who are redefining how the world sees dance. Janet Jackson hired her as a backup dancer. Instagram made her a star. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

To get a better sense of what goes into this unique skill set, Mental Floss spoke with three veteran "Sesame Street" performers. 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

The crowd watching swelled to more than 100, and one performer, Christian Felix, began shouting other phrases attributed to Mr. Garner before his death, including “I’m minding my business” and “I didn’t do nothing.” A Demonstration at the Armory Show Art Fair 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z

It helped tear down the wall between audience and performer. Concert Review: Of Monsters and Men charms Seattle fans 2013-05-15T19:00:35Z

Then, less than a week apart, both iO and Second City were put up for sale, heightening anxiety among performers who were already worried about improv’s post-pandemic future. Chicago Improv Was Dead. Can New Leaders Revive It? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

As the authors stress, at magic shows we never seriously believe that the performer is actually violating the laws of physics and nature. Review | How do they do that? ‘The Secret History of Magic’ is a study of deception as art 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

Still, Antoinette is a very appealing performer, and she may have pulled it off. 'The Voice' recap: Teams Gwen and Pharrell get their grooves on 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

A lineup of artists, poets and performers lead the interactive walks, as well as experimental workshops known as “ways.” Spare Times for July 31-Aug. 6 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Here’s a look at how the performers navigate in ways their nondisabled peers never need to consider. For Disabled Actors, Memorizing the Part Is Only the Beginning 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

Certain choreography, like a moment in which a performer coughs up a feather, has disappeared. ‘Sleep No More’ Awakens After a Long Hibernation 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

The veteran stage and screen performer Leslie Uggams will sing several classics from the American songbook, including Horne’s signature tune, “Stormy Weather.” Weekend Miser: Brooklyn Philharmonic and Yasiin Bey in Bedford-Stuyvesant 2012-06-07T23:05:10Z

City officials recently announced greater police presence and said they’ll enforce a no-touching rule to prevent street performers from hassling tourists. Booze control gets stricter in downtown Las Vegas 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

They do well, but TV bosses suggest Viva goes it alone as a performer. Spice Girls launch West End musical 2012-06-26T16:49:53Z

He was a totally one of a kind performer. George Shearing dies aged 91 2011-02-14T20:17:43Z

It’s especially moving because its standout performers were all gone within four years. From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

In my tenure as a chief theater critic at the Times, Janet McTeer was probably the first performer to make me rethink a classic character altogether. Theater Talkback: Just When You Think You Know Somebody . . . 2010-09-01T21:24:00Z

Comedy is, after all, divisive; performers will often play to a room in which some individuals are enthralled and others enervated. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: the gaffer of gaffer? 2012-08-16T10:35:41Z

To make the cut, each student first won a competition as the best male or female high school performer in one of 31 regions. A Boot Camp for Broadway’s Starry-Eyed Fledglings 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

"Having been a performer as well as an executive, I see myself as a bridge between the artistic community and the business community," she said. Rachel Moore of ABT named L.A. Music Center's next president and CEO

A few performers wear costumes, inventively designed by Abigail DeVille, that look vaguely ecclesiastical — but with flashes of color and brocade and even gaudy jewels. Review: ‘Can I Get a Witness?’ Takes James Baldwin’s Message to Church 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

At one festival, he led a performance of Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale" that included rap performers from South L.A.  Pierre Boulez dies: Frank Gehry remembers musical titan 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

“The circus has always been about bringing performers and circus artists from different nations together to create a show,” he said. Circus solidarity: Ukrainian performers find home in Hungary 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

He ate and drank for three, had a terrible temper when provoked, defied the king when he thought it musically necessary, but loved his fellow composers and performers. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z

The free event, held at the historic Green Mill jazz club at 3 p.m. each Saturday, invites comedians, journalists and performers to speak on everything from pop culture to current events. 36 Hours in Chicago 2014-01-01T16:57:35Z

By that point, though, our relationship was defined and, to some extent, constrained by our respective roles as performer and critic. A Critic and a Pianist, Close but Not Quite Friends 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z

It has a star, Barbara Stanwyck, who was all but alone among the performers of her time for her ability to register in both genres. DVD: Mitchell Leisen?s ?No Man of Her Own? and ?Bedevilled? on DVD 2012-04-08T03:13:01Z

Her unvarnished sincerity is of little use to her here, so she dives into the villainy with the relish of a Jacobean performer delighting the groundlings with macabre flourishes. Despite star Laura Linney, 'Switzerland' an unconvincing stab at noir 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Julia Raeside Channel 4's annual charity event returns with a troupe of performers large enough to make the Polyphonic Spree look on in envy. TV highlights 07/06/2013 2013-06-07T06:00:02Z

In flamenco or tango, my eye is always drawn to the older, heavier performers because they bring so much more personality to the stage. Judith Mackrell on critiquing dancers' appearances 2011-01-12T22:16:00Z

Those are the kinds of explosions that the choreographer Tatyana Tenenbaum creates using the body and the voice in “Thunder,” in which six performers embody what she calls the “simple theater of the singing body.” Review: ‘Thunder,’ Through Body and Voice, at Brooklyn Studios for Dance 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

For the engaging Mr. Keegan-Dolan, the predicament made him reflect on a word that performers used in the creation of “Rian”: confidence. Dance Review: ‘Rian,’ From Fabulous Beast Dance Theater, at Gerald W. Lynch 2012-11-10T00:56:45Z

It is the company’s first aerial work, which means that the three performers, who are also the choreographers, use cables, rigging and pulleys to rise and hover in the air. Only Connect: Finding a Way Into Kinetic Light’s ‘Wired’ 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Several performers were invited to audition on the “SNL” stage, where they get about seven minutes to perform characters, deliver impressions and be funny. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Parodies Presidential Campaign 2012-09-12T21:04:18Z

Parade staffers and volunteers must be vaccinated against COVID-19 and wear masks, though some singers and performers can shed them. Macy’s Thanksgiving parade returns, with all the trimmings 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z

Cirque arrives on Broadway with enviable strengths: a well-known brand, a stable of world-class acrobatic performers, considerable marketing muscle and deep enough pockets to let a show build. Cirque du Soleil’s Broadway Balancing Act 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

The theater includes a 450-seat main room with a multipurpose stage able to fit 50 performers and features a 39-by-21-foot screen on a removable frame, the first of its kind in Haiti. Haiti Opens a Movie Theater for the First Time in Over Five Years 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

Thursday’s order told broadcasters to limit pay for performers and to avoid contract terms that might help them evade taxes. China bans ‘sissy men’ from TV in new crackdown 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Within two years she was the house pianist at a radio station in Chicago, accompanying nationally known performers like Ethel Waters and Sophie Tucker. 2010-01-30T06:09:00Z

It might have been good to showcase some of the newer performers. Dance Review: Enigmatic Choreographer Tells an Enigmatic Tale 2011-02-23T23:22:28Z

The company’s life-span was short — only two or three years — but its founder, its performers and its legacy changed American drama. A Black Theater Flourished in New York. 200 Years Ago. 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

By making theatre a more sensuous world: it's incredibly exciting to see live performers trigger projections or sounds. Portrait of the artist: Robert Lepage, director 2010-12-06T22:29:00Z

The exercise proved much harder than I'd expected going in, for reasons that have nothing to do with the performer and everything to do with the business they have chosen. The Fantastic Five 2011-07-22T23:30:00Z

Of all the things Kai Gault, 31, misses about going to drag shows — the costumes, the music, the performers’ banter with the crowd — the biggest is human contact. Missing the Acts You Love? Spare a Thought for These Superfans 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

Nasheed proved to be more entertaining in two dimensions than most performers were in three. The digested Hay festival 2010-05-31T13:15:00Z

The only lead performer to wiggle free of Mr. Singh’s heavy hand is Nathan Lane, who plays the Queen’s henchman, Brighton, and whose amusingly tremulous, cagey performance owes much to Bob Hope. Movie Review: ?Mirror Mirror,? Tarsem Singh?s Snow White Story 2012-03-29T21:36:25Z

"It means the world to me because I'm the daughter of a performer who played until he was 87 years old and he made every night like opening night," Raitt said. Welch, Civil Wars, Shakes win at Americana Awards 2012-09-13T03:30:14Z

These performers, many from circus dynasties, preserve an important tradition, reinforced by the nonprofit Big Apple Circus’s commendable community-service activities, notably the Clown Care program, which entertains hospitalized children. ‘Metamorphosis’ at the Big Apple Circus 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

He was amenable to a change from one of the performers, Aja, who said, “We’ll probably switch up the choreography a bit because it’s stupid.” Inside MoMA PS1’s Back to School Bash 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The biggest news was saved for the finale when another longtime WWE performer, The Undertaker, made a dramatic, prolonged exit from the stadium to close the broadcast. WrestleMania Stories Collide in the Ring 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Though passionate about the guitar since his childhood, Mr. Lucas did not become a full-time performer until he was nearly 40. Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z

BTS scaled a rooftop to deliver a dizzying rendition of its hit “Dynamite,” a hyperchoreographed taunt at any performer who opted to be bound to, you know, a stage. The Grammys Discover Youth 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

Part of the World Science Festival and on view for five hours a night on Thursday through Saturday, the installation, with performers rotating every half-hour or so, lured thousands of passers-by into its incandescent orbit. Scuff, Patter, Chug, Poke, Swim: Expanding Definitions of Dance 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Large-scale works like her Piano Concerto and organ suite display her virtuosic skills as a performer. As Her Music Is Reconsidered, a Composer Turns 135. Again. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

And they are being used, often repeatedly, by a rotating roster of performers that includes some of the biggest names in avant-garde music. Critics Discuss ?Christian Marclay: Festival? 2010-07-23T22:31:00Z

Meanwhile, Blake Saunders, Alanna’s fourth sibling, is preparing the next generation of musical performers as the choir teacher at Washington Middle School in Seattle. Arts news: New Century season, Kirkland actor in ‘Peter Pan' 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The 30-year-old performer, producer and model, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was taken into custody on Wednesday, along with two members of his entourage and his bodyguard, in connection with a fight on Sunday. U.S. rapper A$AP Rocky's Europe tour in jeopardy after Sweden arrest 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

The second and longer part of the show begins when the performers don filmy costumes trimmed in silky fur to enact a long, convoluted drama inspired by the sketchy details of the war photographer’s death. | 'The Deer House': Grazing in Dark Woods of the Human Soul 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z

Street performers, students, vendors and political demonstrators all gravitate here. 36 Hours in Kiev, Ukraine 2012-06-21T19:38:44Z

Sometimes I strained to hear what the performers where saying, and sometimes I just basked in the murmuring, indistinct haze of sounds. Music Review: ‘The whisper opera’ Speaks at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:53:51Z

There may be pop-up culinary happenings, pre-concert talks or live music prior to shows; afterward, performers will be encouraged to mingle in the bar with audience members. Goodbye Britain, hello Beverly Hills: Newly arrived artistic director of the Wallis throws an open house 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

“When I’m not focused, stuff happens,” said Mason Ames, the performer in question, in an interview between shows at the Ricardo Montalbán Theater in Hollywood. Theater: A Circus That Lets Its Freak Flag Fly 2011-02-13T01:06:22Z

Among some of the performers and crew members of “Spider-Man” the e-mails about Bono in particular dominated the backstage gossip over the weekend. ?Spider-Man? E-Mails Revealed in Taymor Lawsuit 2012-03-04T23:24:48Z

Rosalía, who won album of the year last year and became the first solo female performer to win the top honor since Shakira’s triumph in 2006, earned four nominations this year. Reggaeton redemption: Balvin, Bunny top Latin Grammy nods 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

A door would slide open and a shirt would appear on a hanger; the performers were off to the side, hidden. Third Rail Troupe Takes Over Governors Island House 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

The month is packed with powerful performers in the Seattle area. Catch these jazz shows in June 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Is she a performer, spinning variations on what tightrope walkers and trapeze artists do? Photographer Jun Ahn’s images place viewers on the precipice 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Reports of aggressive panhandling and even fights involving unlicensed street performers led to a crackdown in May and June that led to about two dozen arrests for petty crimes such as blocking the sidewalk. Hall of justice helps out Hollywood superheroes 2010-11-19T15:50:00Z

But in “Lobby Hero,” all four actors, including the film and television stars Chris Evans and Michael Cera, will be judged featured performers. Tony Rulings: ‘1984’ Can Vie for Best Play; Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane Avoid Showdown 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

They needed no prompting to start mimicking the performers’ motions or to play along with them on the park’s metal instruments. Dance Review: Nemcatacoa Teatro Brings Stilts to a Playground 2013-07-11T19:55:48Z

Significant writers, directors and performers at the top of their profession are realising that there are particular artistic possibilities afforded by working with young people. Edinburgh festival fringe puts young people on centre stage 2012-08-17T14:15:02Z

Increasingly early exits for middle-aged performers merely reinforce the absence of grown-up themes in a format once founded on them. No More Country for Old Men 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Within his structure, which shifts dancers across or on and off the stage in packs, Mr. Morris creates optical illusions, fooling the eyes into imagining that there are double, even triple the number of performers. Dance Review: Mark Morris Dance Group at BAM Opera House 2012-03-03T00:04:35Z

You’re handed a sheet that lists places, performers and pieces, but no additional information is offered. Noon to Midnight, L.A. Phil delivers new music (and free ice cream) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

As a performer, she is everything an audience could wish for. Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debuts two works from two ‘uncommon’ women 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

In posters featuring one of his favorite performers, the high-kicking Jane Avril, the action is mirrored in the choreography of line, as if Toulouse-Lautrec were dancing along with her through the act of drawing. Toulouse-Lautrec’s Groundbreaking Prints at MoMA 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Meet and greets are usually reserved for performers early in their career, or for those trying to hold on to one. Celine Dion Loves You. And You. And You. 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

The performers felt like cynical manipulators; the audience left the hall with their desires no more gratified than when they came in. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

The director/star's newest since "Rambo" is also sure to be a muscular performer in international markets. "Expendables" revels in excess 2010-08-05T01:30:00Z

For the performer the show represents more than just this. HBO's skate show "Betty" grows up, and not even a pandemic can break its momentum 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z

Social distancing tears apart the closeness that performers and listeners had always taken for granted at concerts: closeness onstage, in the crowd and in the shared moment. Intimacy Is Overrated: Concerts in the Livestream Era 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Jagger made the other performers look lazy. At Concert for Sandy Relief, Big Names Find the Right Tone 2012-12-13T12:52:08Z

The call and response between performers and live audiences is comedy's fuel, driving hosts and writers alike. How late night adjusted – and became weirder and more creative – after a pandemic year 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z

“This festival was built on local drag talent, yet here we are spending the money on headliners who made some performers so uncomfortable that they had to drop out.” Bushwig Grows Up 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

A sixth performer, Mia Morris, 18, is the only regular at the showcase, adding beats to each song from atop the cajon, a box-shaped percussion instrument. Making the Rounds on Nashville’s Singer-Songwriter Circuit 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

But “On Display” merely grazes the surface of watching and being watched, protecting the audience and performers from the vulnerability of that exchange. Review: Heidi Latsky Dance and Axis Dance at Skirball Center 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

She is a handsome performer, though her choreography was slight, and too preoccupied at times with incorporating a small stool. Dance Review: A Dance Grab Bag at La MaMa 2010-06-13T22:44:00Z

In wrestling parlance, he was a jobber: a performer who exists almost entirely to make other performers look better. How Jinder Mahal, an Indian WWE Star, Is Turning Up the Heat 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, Pride was rewarded by the country music business — by the end of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s, he was one of the genre’s central, crucial performers, a part of the firmament. What Country Music Asked of Charley Pride 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

The gasp-inducing fight scenes can by turns enthrall audiences and make them worry for the safety of the performers. How to Throw Punches Without Getting Hurt 2011-02-25T14:52:59Z

The songs’ protagonists include killers, brutal military commanders and a performer whose last show is his own death. black midi Bristles at a Bleak World With ‘Hellfire’ 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z

The essentials: More than two dozen performers play characters, narrators and props in this imaginatively bare-bones production, notable for its scrupulous fidelity to Dickens’ text. The 99-Seat Beat: A theater in fire-scarred Ventura makes its holiday wish 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z

I think it’s important that young performers be encouraged — not discouraged — in their dreams to sing, whether on Broadway or in the pop arena, by a show that purports to celebrate great singing. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: Betty Buckley on Why She Took on 'American Idol' 2012-02-24T15:11:42Z

In addition, the performers offered an improvisation in each half of the program, drawing thread from the Baroque music at hand but venturing far beyond the period, even into modern modes of expression. Music Review: Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-05-24T21:17:11Z

The award will honour King's career as a writer and performer, which spans nearly six decades, as wekk as her charitable and philanthropic work. Carole King honoured by Grammys 2013-09-20T12:05:44Z

As a conductor, he was so riveting to watch that the performers visually locked onto his face and his hands, ready to follow him anywhere. Tribute: George Shangrow, a roaring presence on Seattle's classical-music scene 2010-08-07T00:21:00Z

Hours later, he apologized more abjectly, though he still cited his performer’s background. Franken and Trump, Hiding Behind Their ‘Jokes’ 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Contemporary composers and performers may not entirely share that concern. classical: New-Music Works With Surprising Problem: Dated Instruments 2012-06-10T04:10:05Z

Some 840 producers, investors, performers and others who work in the theater choose the winners. 2017 Tony Nominations: What to Watch For 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The performers draw flowers and houses — this is home, before the trouble started — and then tear it all to shreds to show how quickly life was ripped apart. Dance Review: For Healing, Not Words but Bodies in Motion 2011-04-03T21:57:05Z

Since 1977, the Cornelia Street Café has been a bulwark for aspiring and established, prosperous and penurious local poets, philosophers, performers and prophets and the people who love them. Weekend Miser: Cornelia Street Café Presents ‘Fruits of Labor’ 2013-08-29T20:15:46Z

So us just being Black performers is, I don’t know, enough of a difference. A Sister and Brother Choose Repertoire by Feeling and Listening 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

These questions are examined in a piece that puts both its performer and its audience on the spot in a way that is both discomforting and exhilarating. This week's new theatre 2013-01-12T06:00:19Z

The other headliners this year are repeat performers. Beyoncé, Radiohead and Kendrick Lamar to Headline Coachella 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

The performers are not professionals, so they are curious, and need feedback. ArtsBeat: Coil Festival: 5 Questions About 'Rabbi Rabino' 2011-01-06T19:30:56Z

And Ms. Testa, a performer of radioactive presence and lungs of steel who appeared on Broadway in “On the Town” and “Xanadu,” has the stuff of which musical bulldozers are made. | 'Queen of the Mist' : ?Queen of the Mist? at the Gym at Judson - Review 2011-11-07T03:01:01Z

Walker, a gifted composer, performer and professor who died last year at 96, was the first African-American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. The art of programming a classical-music concert: Seattle Symphony brings together Dvorak, Walker, Szymanowski 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. King conquered a childhood stammer to become a radio performer in the late 1940s. B.B. King, Mississippi master of the blues, dies at 89 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

He was a prolific musician and performer, but also prolific with ideas about how to shake up moribund approaches to pop. Popcast: Remembering Prince 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Make that great acting on the stage, which you saw in real time, in a shared space where you breathed the same air as the performers. The Mythic Performances That Are Keeping Me Company 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

The new special "Penn Jillette's Street Cred" finds the chattier half of Penn & Teller pounding the pavement in search of talented street performers. TV This Week, Nov. 30-Dec. 6: 'Peter Pan Live!' and more 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

"They were looking at him as a performer." HBO's messy "Tiger" treats the controversial golf icon as salacious entertainment 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z

The performers break for dessert, then they writhe some more and repurpose Nine Inch Nails’s “Closer” as a lullaby. At These High-End Dinner Theaters, Classics Come With Crudités 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

This is surprising, given that the ensemble includes performers celebrated for nuance, including Ms. Hecht, one of New York’s most enchanting stage actresses, and Ms. Bening, a movie star with a welcome sense of adventure. ‘King Lear’ in the Park, Starring John Lithgow 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

The government recommendations, he said, “are made for a very sort of broad common denominator,” not a place like the Symphony, where a number of performers are blowing air through their instruments. What you need to know about mask and vaccine requirements to get into Seattle-area arts and music events this spring 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

This brings me to Copeland, such an appealing performer with a wonderful, emollient quality in her arms and upper body. A show of virtuosos, ‘Swan Lake’ shimmers with strong women 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

The extremes to which Mr. Zorn flings his performers and listeners are not in themselves new, or newly juxtaposed, but he writes with such sensitivity, assurance and joy that it always somehow seems fresh. Classical Playlist: Sibelius, Dvorak and Zorn 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

For both performers, the film is a capstone. Coen premieres a stark ‘Macbeth,’ with Denzel and McDormand 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

In Paul Thomas Anderson’s coming-of-age romance, a child performer who has hit maximum adolescent awkwardness is aging out of his professional niche. At the Oscar Nominees Luncheon: Glamour, Griping and Gluten-Free Meals 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

Mr. Petronio directs, leaving plenty of room for spontaneous encounters among performers and passers-by. Dance Listings for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

All season long, Yeoh has spoken of the obstacles she and other Asian performers have faced in Hollywood. Michelle Yeoh Makes History as the First Asian Best Actress Winner at the Oscars 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z

The cast members of that HBO crime drama, leading players and supporting performers alike, became synonymous with the menacing mobsters and manipulative family members they portrayed. How the ‘Many Saints of Newark’ Stars Remade Key ‘Sopranos’ Roles 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

“It’s not something that you just have a go at,” says Ben Dimmock, a stunt performer and stunt coordinator who has doubled for Matt Damon as Jason Bourne. Why stuntwomen are angry about 'wigging' – and are changing the industry from within 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

King’s casting choices are often inspired, and, like the Harry Potter films, with which “Paddington” shares a producer, David Heyman, the movie is studded with appearances by celebrated British character actors and comic performers. “Paddington” Perfectly Captures a Particular English Sensibility 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

During the standing ovation at the end, they were applauding themselves as much as the performers. ‘I Even Missed the Smell’: What It’s Like to Be Back at the Theater 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Playing a character in a sitcom named Garry Shandling, he often addressed the audience directly, breaking the so-called “fourth wall” between performers and audience. Garry Shandling, who parodied TV’s conventions in two hit comedy shows, dies at 66 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Then each performer stepped up to a microphone and completed the phrase “I know” with political and personal statements. Review: Bill T. Jones’s Oceanic Vision 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

In Part 2 they discuss "Empire's" place in the Emmys, stump for some favorite performers and reveal which departing show they think should win the most love from voters. Emmys preview: Building a case for 'Empire,' favorite finales 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

At the heart of Palin’s accusation is the detail that the performer disguised himself as a disabled veteran, “fake wheelchair and all.” The big Sacha Baron Cohen question: Can a harmless prankster become a weaponized troll? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

The Stravinsky staging involves several circus performers, which is forcing the action a few more feet from the backdrop. In ‘Golem,’ the Troupe 1927 Shares a Stage With a Claymation Co-Star 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

For this performer, at least, background hardly matters. Bryan Cranston Is Playing Lyndon Johnson on Broadway 2014-02-05T20:10:11Z

Movies about pivotal cases in American history tend to be earnest showcases that pander more to the performer's abilities than the audience's interest. With "The Trial of the Chicago 7" we get a history of civil disobedience that's very relevant today 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

And James, what was it like working with young performers for whom a film like this was presumably a new experience? ArtsBeat: Venice Film Festival: James Franco and Harmony Korine on 'Spring Breakers' 2012-09-07T18:16:53Z

As always, the event includes dance companies and artists from around the world; this year, expect performers from Argentina, Austria, Curaçao, France, India, Iraq, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka and Turkey. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The committee agreed with the producers of the musical “Bullets Over Broadway” that the television star Zach Braff be the only performer in the show eligible in a lead performance category. ArtsBeat: In Tonys Derby, ‘Inishmaan,’ ‘Cabaret,’ ‘Hedwig’ and ‘Violet’ Eligible as Revivals 2014-04-25T19:27:58Z

It’s a rare example of seeing an Asian performer play a traditionally white role. “Asian men in media are so desexualized”: Rising star Jake Choi fights the Hollywood odds against Asian American actors 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Horne's versatility as a performer on screen, stage and record was matched by her wide musical range. Lena Horne dies aged 92 2010-05-10T08:40:00Z

More complicated are choral passages, especially antiphonal ones, a challenge for untrained performers but a compelling study in building harmony. Review: ‘The Mutes’ Gives Voice to Musical Outsiders 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

The changed currency policy also has helped make concerts a reality by making it possible for promoters to again get dollars needed to pay performers. Music stars return to Venezuela after skipping it for years 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Among the other performers scheduled on Sunday are Katy Perry, who was a dedicated surrogate for Mrs. Clinton, and Chance the Rapper, a frequent guest of President Obama’s White House. Adele vs. Beyoncé: What’s at Stake for the Grammys? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

In that scene, the performers’ controlled, jerky movements are impressive. Review: ‘Drama’ Contains Many Things. But Drama Isn’t One. 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

But when his drums, singing and writing are the focus — as is the case in his new band, which plays complex, blenderized Africa-to-the-New-World funk — he’s an incomparable performer. CareFusion, Vision, Undead and Other Jazz Fests 2010-06-10T22:15:00Z

So, we began offering recognition to high performers and most improved. Motherlode Blog: Rewarding Success on Standardized Tests 2012-09-20T20:19:33Z

Unlike many action directors, who often see their actors as transposable parts, Scott worked repeatedly with some of Hollywood's most acclaimed performers. Director Tony Scott may have been ill 2012-08-21T04:29:03Z

Their slow-moving tableaux dwarf any human presence, leaving audiences with enigmatic, elemental images — a shadowy army of frozen figures melting before our eyes, say, or a lonely performer struggling in a vortex of fan-powered winds. A Transgender Director Who Defies Genres (to France’s Confusion) 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

A dynamic singer and performer, Bell and Bam Bam’s first EP predated what are widely considered the earliest grunge recordings by about a year. How Seattle’s storied rock scene is shattering the genre’s white male image 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Still, you tend to forget the individual performers whenever they’re offstage. London Theater Journal: Two Wars, With Song and Sentiment 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

The performer himself seems to have learned a thing or two as well. Randy Rainbow, singing truth to power 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

The police chief even says he met with the headlining performer before the show. Astroworld deaths spur calls for independent review 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

If only she had more stage time with Sunny, the performer people couldn’t stop talking about at intermission. Theater Review: ‘Annie,’ Starring Katie Finneran, at the Palace Theater 2012-11-09T03:37:23Z

“Freestyle Love Supreme” is modulated for that extremely modern wavelength, the one that seeks to evaporate the barriers between performers and spectators. How chill can Broadway get? Lin-Manuel Miranda and company throw down some ‘Freestyle Love’ to find out. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

They range from fine to great, but so would, we’re guessing, many South African performers whom a resourceful director could discover. Mandela in the Movies: 10 Films About Apartheid 2013-12-06T21:21:59Z

God's Own Comedian was a respectful appreciation of the writer and performer who courted controversy in the 1970s with his mockery of religion, particularly of the Catholic variety. Rewind TV: Vicious; The Job Lot; Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian; The Repo Man – review 2013-05-04T09:45:01Z

Tommasini’s lifelong concertgoing experience also allows him to supply a wealth of examples about performers’ approaches to the music under discussion, such as hearing in awe Rudolf Serkin play Beethoven or Renata Tebaldi sing Desdemona. The Greatest Composers Ever 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Thanks to the special-effects-grade prosthetics and precision paint jobs seen on “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” drag performers of every stripe have had to up their game. Drag Kings Are Ready to Rule 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Police said they were called to Mayall’s house by London Ambulance Service, where the performer was pronounced dead. Post-mortem on comedian Rik Mayall inconclusive 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Michael Jackson’s was an amazing performer with a devastating past who had no mirrors with which to see his beautiful self and thus wanted to change the face I loved as a child. Michael Jackson’s legacy is “Untouchable” 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z

The performer, who received backlash when the comments went viral earlier this month, told Jada Pinkett-Smith on Monday’s episode of “Red Table Talk” that he also apologized to his daughter. T.I. apologizes and says he was joking about ‘hymen’ comment 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

Some of the real-life figures in “Vinyl” are just background performers to add verisimilitude. ‘Vinyl’ Season 1, Episode 3: Rock Star Karaoke 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

A decade later each performer is more relaxed and immersed in the material than before. Music Review: Donning Sinatra?s Mystique, From Movie Sailor to Saloon Dandy 2010-09-01T21:56:00Z

Hollywood largely did this through the creation of a doubled world in which white performers engaged with blackness brazenly, subtly or through its absence. Escape With Me Into the Delirious World of 1940s Musicals 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Regina King’s “One Night in Miami” earned the group’s Robert Altman Award, which is given to a single film’s director, casting director and ensemble of performers. Indie Spirits Nominate a Diverse Group of Filmmakers 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

And it created a grimy symbiosis between performer and audience. Music Review: ‘Drone Activity in Progress,’ at the Knockdown Center 2013-05-03T21:54:26Z

White performers who came up with him, he said, could be schlubby and make it in show business. How the "Great British Baking Show" flaked out on us when we needed it most 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Stan's variety as a performer was very valuable, because he adjusted. Entertainer Stan Stennett dies at 88 2013-11-26T15:15:46Z

All the respect and kudos to a journalist turned TV performer, although it seems that he is catering mainly to an audience of foodies rather than discriminating gourmets. QVC’s David Venable: The Man Who Helps America Cook 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Last August the nine performers gathered in a room of the mansion, two hours north of New York City in the Hudson Valley, to rehearse. ‘The Visitors,’ by Ragnar Kjartansson 2013-01-06T04:59:41Z

This fantasy's purpose wasn't to make these fetes more desirable by studding them with stars, but to accurately suss out the source of a performer's charisma. The magical magnetism of Mads Mikkelsen 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z

Surprise performers at the 46th Academy of Country Music awards in Las Vegas on Sunday night included Steven Tyler and Rihanna, but the night belonged to and rising star Miranda Lambert. Rihanna stars alongside Taylor Swift at Academy of Country Music awards 2011-04-04T11:29:20Z

Last year, King was one of the intrepid few performers in town, doing his drag show on a makeshift stage in front of socially distanced audiences in the gravel parking lot. After a Midsummer Shiver, Provincetown Proceeds With Care 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z

"The performers are all very aware that this is an audience that knows what they're looking at," he said during a break in Tuesday's dress rehearsal. ABT returns to Moscow stage after 45 years 2011-03-29T19:01:16Z

This makes it the most intimate medium, both for the listener and for the performer. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Chavez-Fernandez also encourages diversity among performers, since so many DJ lineups are occupied by men. The idea of ‘safe spaces’ has become controversial, but in nightlife it’s increasingly important 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

It was heard constantly, from pop stars, movie actors and Broadway performers alike. For Joan Rivers’s Doctor, Fame Delivers Its Bill 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

More than 500 performers took part, with young musicians from Brazil, Iraq, the US and the UK, including members of the National Youth Orchestra. Bernstein's Mass 2010-07-12T21:45:00Z

Crouch worked with many other stars, from Diana Ross to Ringo Starr, and his gospel albums sometimes featured performers from other musical genres. Andrae Crouch, Legendary Gospel Figure, Dies at 72 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

And in most cases, he said, the performers give their blessing to the project. ‘The higher things of human life’ 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tambor used his acceptance to urge the industry to cast more transgender performers. Review: Emmy Awards Showcase TV’s Cultural Dominance and Trump Jokes 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

In the vortex of 24/7 celebrity infotainment, it’s now impossible to watch performers on screen without being aware of their off-screen lives. Is it possible to be fair to actors we simply, irrationally just don’t like? 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Voice performers were hired to stand in for the soldiers, but Jackson’s team, mindful that regiments were drawn from different regions of Britain, made sure the actors came from those areas and had accurate accents. How Peter Jackson Made WWI Footage Seem Astonishingly New 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z

They are both material and author, performer and instrument. Have You Heard the One About the Angsty Comic? Yes, Too Often 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

“In a world of criminal justice performers, she was an incredibly formidable and successful person.” Two Cities and Two Weddings — But Only One Couple 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

So far, most online video sex chat services have let the customer see the performer, but not the other way around. In iPhone, adult industry sees pocket porn market 2010-07-29T11:01:00Z

Famous performers such as James Brown and Duke Ellington stayed here, but the brown-shingled hotel has fallen into disrepair; the owners are hoping for funds to turn it into a museum. On Maryland’s Eastern Shore, walking among the spirits

So many that the event is structured as an evening double bill, with a break in between for a Play Date, a chance for composers and performers to mingle with audience members. Going Young and Bicoastal at Lincoln Center 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

He will always be a little bit more the performer’s hero than the general public’s hero. Royal Opera’s Next Leader Keeps Quality in Mind and Home in His Heart 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

Advertisement Advertisement Those new to “Dream” may be a tad confused by the opening scene here, in which the performers take turns portraying the Athenian duke Theseus and his captive warrior bride-to-be, Hippolyta. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Tailored for Multitaskers 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Tinariwen were among the performers scheduled to play in the Caravan of Artists for Peace and National Unity. Festival in the Desert postponed after security situation in Mali deteriorates 2013-02-01T13:52:24Z

“But then, you look at the bigger picture and you look at the opportunities that are available to Asian performers. You see that yeah, past a certain point, there really isn’t that deeper representation.” Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ jabs, flips Asian American film cliches 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

The performers played with impressive concentration and nuance. Review: The Quietly Cosmic Sound of Desert Stillness 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Throughout, as the performers thoroughly exhaust themselves, a male cheerleader and a group of fans take turns encouraging and booing them, while a referee mumbles incomprehensibly in the background. The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2022 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

The curtain rises on a stage strewn with black objects that look like plastic fruit; five performers are at work. Dance Review: William Forsythe?s ?I don?t believe in outer space? - Review 2011-10-27T22:16:44Z

Mr. Pigott-Smith, 6 feet tall with blue eyes and fair hair, was a patrician figure with classical training who worked constantly on stage, film and television, mostly as a performer, but also as a director. Tim Pigott-Smith, Actor Who Put Prince Charles on the Throne, Dies at 70 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

Drugs, an unavoidable topic, are mentioned in sympathetic tones as an overworked performer’s self-medication. Review: A Reverent Elvis Doc Separates the Trailblazer From His Tragedy 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

But most directors and performers conspire to, at the very least, keep their audiences awake. ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ and Other Sleep-Oriented Shows 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Bodies Like Statues, Beginning to Move and Then Set Free Is the performer the object or is the object the performer? Dance Review: Bodies Like Statues, Beginning to Move and Then Set Free 2010-10-11T21:57:00Z

The performers sang, danced and played various types of drums, an instrument traditionally reserved for men. Dance Review: Nimbaya! Drummers From Guinea, at Symphony Space 2012-03-27T22:43:36Z

I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared' 2012-07-04T17:36:06Z

Based in Cleveland, Ohio, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been inducting performers since 1986. Nirvana up for Hall of Fame honour 2013-10-16T09:15:58Z

Since you focus on performers who are underrepresented in comedy, did you feel more pressure about whom you chose to be in these specials? Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson Save It for the Stage 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

When Carl Reiner died last June, he left a hole in the comedy firmament that no performer, writer or director will be able to fill. Carl Reiner’s Archives Will Go to the National Comedy Center 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

The comic performer Will Sasso and the actress Christina Vidal play a married couple with young children in this new sitcom. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘First Cow’ and ‘The Line’ 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

Photographs and names of Holocaust victims scroll in a video over the stage and performers. Romania’s Jewish State Theater explores work on Holocaust 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

The band’s solution was to mock the performers that Fuse had asked them to discuss. Crisis for Insane Clown Posse: Getting Saner 2013-12-08T22:39:59Z

That the judges are performers also delivers the same message, at a much softer, less-compelling volume, as those Bravo shows: Talent is great, but greatness is hard, hard work. “Duets”: TV’s cheesiest “American Idol” ripoff 2012-05-31T14:58:00Z

For this powerhouse performer, shyness had nothing to do with it. A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z

The inventors of the instruments, in most cases, did not meet the performers who would use them. ?The Music Box? in New Orleans is a Sonic Shantytown 2011-11-21T22:54:24Z

"Tom is a born performer. He was able to get the joke from the outset and sell it very convincingly." Athletes can help movies score, and vice versa 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

The entire physique of each performer looked intensely motivated. Opening Doors And Reaching New Heights 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

Those addresses are the old and new locations of the Chocolate Factory Theater, an artist-run organization known for giving performers ample space, time and freedom to create. A Celebratory and Scrappy Farewell (and Hello) in Queens 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir played the guitar during the second show before it was signed by the band’s four living original members and the three guest performers who joined them. Guitar signed by Grateful Dead sold for $526,000 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

It requires performers to match the pitch and prosody of their lines to the chords of a prerecorded electronic score that progresses with the ooze and splash of a lava lamp. How Young Singers Get Used to ‘Dust’ in Their Mouths 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Plainly, the six African American performers of the Second City’s “Black Side of the Moon” are keeping their salty material fresh. Fresh off the election, Second City’s ‘Black Side’ is quicker than ever with comebacks 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

It's a wildly bonkers piece, made watchable by the charismatic personalities of its performers. Russian dance that's out of this world: Turin's Teatro a Corte 2011-07-13T11:36:09Z

In all of the lineups I saw, over half the performers were Black or of Arab descent — a level of diversity that is the legacy of pioneering French comics like Debbouze and Gad Elmaleh. As Paris’s Theaters Go Quiet, Its Comedy Clubs Are Packed 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

Clad in black, the performers present both the onstage show and the offstage antics of their characters. Humbug as a Holiday Enhancer 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

He is currently on a rare solo tour of the UK, returning after near-fatal illness halted his illustrious career as a performer and teacher in 2008. Fred Hersch 2012-10-05T16:57:57Z

But those aren't the kinds of compliments you pay to a great or even good musical performer. When are these people going to get better? 2011-05-03T13:04:00Z

Here are some of this year's most entertaining, weird and wonderful performers. Eurovision 2014: The ones to watch 2014-05-06T07:49:54Z

Then, to an audible metronomic pulse of 72 beats per minute, the performers repeat earlier sections of the work in new juxtapositions. Music Review: Collaboration at 72 Beats Per Minute 2011-06-26T21:54:06Z

Yet there was little synthetic about the rebellious performer with the startling voice. ‘Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché’ Review: An Overdue Close-up 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Do they sack the performer after negative opinion polls? Noises off 2010-05-12T16:47:00Z

Watching Eighth Blackbird in action during Missy Mazzoli’s “Still Life With Avalanche,” you envied a composer’s opportunity to challenge these versatile, expressive performers. Music Review: Look & Listen?s Informal Feel at Chelsea Art Museum 2010-05-09T22:21:00Z

From sports to news, overwhelmingly, interpretation for the deaf/Deaf and Hard of Hearing has been done by performers who are not themselves deaf, a source of frustration within the community. The Super Bowl deaf performers were standouts, but were forgotten as an audience 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z

But nothing was as magnificent as when the performers gracefully wove pieces of fabric around a maypole and then unraveled them. Dance Review: The Dances of Africa, as Filtered Through the Americas 2011-05-29T21:58:56Z

The performers are clearly deeply committed to Rankine's writing, but they approach the work with the emotional gratitude of readers. 'Citizen: An American Lyric' meditates on the trauma of racism 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

The Free Speech Coalition said on its website that a single performer had tested positive for the disease. Porn film production on hold after Los Angeles syphilis case 2012-08-21T20:31:43Z

Yet the performers – drawn from Random and the Royal – are generally superb. Wayne McGregor/Random Dance – review 2012-11-23T15:47:17Z

Apart from the ability to work stripper hours anywhere in the world and being able to handle narcissistic performers? One for the roadies: in praise of rock'n'roll's unsung heroes 2012-12-12T16:34:31Z

In a Denver parking lot, theatergoers in cars watch, through their windshields, four performers costumed as grasshoppers. Beyond Broadway, the Show Does Go On 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z

Thereafter, Francis had no big roles in big movies, instead becoming one of those aging performers of medium wattage who stay employed by joining the perennial bus-and-truck company of TV series guest stars. Honey from the Forbidden Planet: Remembering Anne Francis (1930-2011) 2011-01-08T14:05:00Z

But late in the play, when a performer asked, “Does anyone feel like decomposing?” Making a Meal of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

They showcased performers beloved by Black audiences, and, starting with “Sanford and Son,” proved that a series about a family of color could be widely successful. ‘Sanford and Son’ at 50, ‘double-edged’ Black sitcom pioneer 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

I loved what went on there — the music, the performers. Jan Wallman, Village Cabaret Owner, Dies at 93 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

Their father, William, who designed tools and still lives on the North Side, embraced the arts, but their mother, Virginia, was the irrepressible performer. Hollywood's fickle; family ties endure 2011-03-16T21:28:00Z

Then they used their ability under the contest rules that allow them to save one performer each year to keep Ms. Sanchez on the show. ArtsBeat: Colton Dixon Voted Off 'American Idol' 2012-04-20T03:31:44Z

Some performers worry that raising ticket prices will help maintain the status quo. Chicago Improv Was Dead. Can New Leaders Revive It? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

He was inducted as a producer, songwriter and performer, having penned some of Johnny Cash's early hits and been responsible for the famous mariachi horns on Ring of Fire, which was performed at the ceremony. Rogers joins Country Hall of Fame 2013-10-28T14:52:05Z

As a storyteller and performer, Ms. Anderson imagined a museum of her work might resemble a radio broadcasting station. A Museum Where Giant Art Has Room to Breathe 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

For Ms. Ellsworth, a jittery performer who expertly folds nervousness into her character, the disappearance in question is both hypothetical and very real. Michelle Ellsworth and Jeremy Wade at American Realness 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

But ask yourself this: have you ever seen a performer as completely dedicated to the sanctity of his craft as Harvey Weinstein was yesterday? Just one more Oscar! Harvey Weinstein's zimmer shuffle was a theatrical tour-de-force 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Some performers were elusive or difficult to place, perched in the mezzanine or in the frame of a Juliet balcony but obscured by darkness. Review: ‘Ten Thousand Birds’ Turns the Armory Into an Aviary 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Of props, however, there are many, lugged onstage by the five performers as the piece opens. Theater Review: ‘C’est du Chinois,’ at Under the Radar Festival 2013-01-11T23:42:25Z

He finally gave up his column, with great reluctance, because he was appearing increasingly on the box as a performer and felt that he shouldn't try to straddle both sides of the fence. How Clive James transformed the role of television critic 2012-06-23T23:06:15Z

A more significant problem came from the marketing of classical music once star performers, and their promoters, realized that big careers could be made from sticking to the classics. Anna Netrebko, Consider New Opera. Please. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Titus is a highly theatrical would-be Broadway performer who counts on Kimmy to pay the rent. Review: ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Features a Midwestern Fish Out of Water 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Those kind of characters require performers who aren't afraid to appear deeply flawed, and Holofcener has over the years built a reputation for the dynamic chemistry in her top-notch ensembles. Filmmaker Nicole Holofcener: “I’m a director, not a ‘female director'” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

“Magic Mike,” made as a personal, self-financed, and low-budget movie, sees cynicism behind the performer’s self-sacrificing commitment. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Was it in 1925 when a performer removed a costume item, a cuff, she noticed had gotten dirty? Not Just Strippers: Seven Things You Didn’t Know About Burlesque 2013-06-04T09:45:33Z

They are the television performers and cultural role models. Hey, parents – leave those introverts alone! 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

It lasted 10 months before closing amid a social media frenzy over the financially shaky production’s decision to replace a black performer with a more famous white performer in a starring role. Her ‘Great Comet’ Glowed. Now She’s Heading to ‘Hadestown’ 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z

Last fall, the already struggling "Piers Morgan Live" faced increased competition from a revised Fox News Channel lineup that included a strong new performer at 9 p.m. CNN says Piers Morgan's talk show is ending 2014-02-24T05:29:45Z

Las Vegas residencies have become a popular draw for top music stars because they allow performers to remain in one place and draw large crowd without the rigors of touring. Lady Gaga heads for Las Vegas concert residency 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

For both lead performer and director, the production provides an opportunity to deepen their interpretation of a work that has played an important role in their respective careers. A Decidedly French “Hamlet” Returns to Paris 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The shaky pilot takes the group from reluctant performers to a cohesive unit implausibly fast. Review: ‘Rise’ Is No ‘Friday Night Footlights’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

The performers were clearly absorbed in something powerful and meaningful to them. Moroccan dance ‘Identity/Identite’ is bold and liberating, but its intentions aren’t clear

The artists saw performer compensation “as a blind spot in how performance was entering collections,” Mr. Kelly said. Looking at How Performers Are Paid for Performance Art 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Each day ended with a procession where performers, guests and members of the community would march in unison as they honored the departed. Día de los Muertos: an antidote to America's Halloween sugar rush 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Franklin was a veteran stage and television performer before “One Day At a Time” made her a star. Bonnie Franklin, ‘One Day At a Time’ Star, Dies 2013-03-01T18:48:27Z

But if Sunday's winners did indeed emphasize the people's taste — top trophies went to Taylor Swift, 5 Seconds of Summer and Calvin Harris — the show's lineup of performers still felt defined by music's power structure. iHeartRadio Music Awards might be one show too many 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

Questions about the dissonance between select performers who promote unhealthful lifestyles and Broccoli City’s principles are fair, but the collective maintains a steadfast commitment to education through entertainment. Review | In a time of political uncertainty, Broccoli City Festival is needed more than ever 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

Born in Los Angeles in the 1960s, she’s a performer, writer, editor, composer and painter, and her solo show at Invisible-Exports adds sculptor to the résumé. Vaginal Davis’s Feminist Wall Reliefs Pledge ‘Open Revolt’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

But broadcasters, a powerful lobbying group, have successfully argued that performers already benefit from the promotion they receive from radio play. How Aretha Franklin’s ‘Respect’ Became a Battle Cry for Musicians Seeking Royalties 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

An animated singer and vibrant stage presence, he took that brief turn in the limelight and extended it — first, as a Broadway performer, and most notably, as one of the most original presences on YouTube. Review: ‘Todrick,’ on the YouTube Star Todrick Hall’s Relentless Pursuit of Fame 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

"Nail, a robust singer and a powerful performer in his own right, brought a strong sense of suffering humanity to the role," wrote Variety's Marilyn Stasio. Sting 'electrifying' in own musical 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

Calhoun says he's tuned the piano of virtually every Newport performer in the last quarter-century, though one notable exception sticks out in his mind. Piano tuner marks 25th year at Newport jazz fest 2010-08-05T17:18:00Z

You find yourself wondering: Are the performers uncomfortable in their clammy costumes? Review | Synetic’s ‘Tempest’ is splashy but brooding 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Water imagery appears throughout the production; the performers dance in and around buckets of water, rattle and shake empty water bottles and deploy umbrellas. Contra-Tiempo's 'Agua Furiosa' stirs up a maelstrom of issues 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

Carlile and Batiste brought most of the night’s performers back to the stage for a sing-along of “The Circle Game” and “Big Yellow Taxi.” Generations sing to Joni Mitchell in pre-Grammys tribute 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z

Another, with a young female character scaling a “tree” made of violet ribbons, while a dozen performers brandish giant pink-and-purple silk fans, is hypnotic. Cirque du Soleil's 'Toruk — the First Flight' misses what's great about Cirque or 'Avatar' 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

When Spain’s 2018 entry ended with the performers in a romantic embrace, he joked, “I give it a month.” Netflix’s ‘Eurovision Song Contest’: Here’s What You May Have Missed 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

Given the attention Yuasa lavishes on these passages, it’s clear that he loves the idea of 14th-century performers rocking out like modern-day arena gods. ‘Inu-oh’ Review: Dazzling Anime Meets Medieval Epic 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

A car crash shortly after the move had ended her career as a performer. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

But on stage, the performers soon start to look like trick-or-treaters who have been trapped in their costumes long after Halloween is over. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Stratford-Upon-Avon Edition 2011-07-22T21:16:12Z

Styles is such a magnetic onstage performer, provocative interview subject and fearlessly androgynous fashion plate that his records have come to feel like missed opportunities — the least personality-driven expressions of his otherwise compelling celebrity. Harry Styles Is Still a Dreamy Cipher on His Third LP, ‘Harry’s House’ 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Performers Madonna and Lady Gaga criticized the law in concerts in St Petersburg last year, leading Moscow to implement a harsher visa regimes for performers coming to Russia. Russian parents group asks Putin to cancel Elton John concert - media 2013-09-24T15:57:16Z

So many comedians past their prime try to revive their careers by doing impressions of other performers. On TV, a Super-Sized Performer Breaking Out of a Small Box 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

Listeners and performers are often curious about what inspired a particular piece of music. Music Review: Gil Morgenstern at W.M.P. Concert Hall ? Review 2011-09-16T21:54:03Z

In fact, where burlesque tends to favor a certain hourglass shape and bustiness, the physical range and fitness level of male boylesque performers vary wildly. Boylesque, a Male Spin on the Classic Striptease 2012-11-14T22:44:21Z

It takes a strong performer to make an unlikable character not only believable but beloved. Angela Lansbury was the world’s big sister 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

Other performers during the evening included Australian singer Jessica Mauboy, leading a segment which sang the praises of the Gold Coast, which will host the next games in four years' time. Commonwealth closer watched by 6.8m 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

These performers would describe their experiences only on the condition of anonymity, and they declined to identify the directors or casting directors. Sex and Violence, Beyond the Script 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

In late March, when lawyers representing the president’s party petitioned Brazil’s supreme electoral court to stop artists from making “political demonstrations” in their sets, Anitta encouraged other performers to defy them. Can a Brazilian Pop Star Crack the U.S. Market? Anitta Says Yes. 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

And so she moves to New York, and finds her vocation — performer, poet, storyteller — when she happens upon the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Review: In ‘MotherStruck!’ Staceyann Chin Chronicles Her Quest to Become Pregnant 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

Training the performers, most of whom are not dancers, took time — the routine combines elements of vaudeville, tap and percussion. 5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

It depends on the performer to bring out all these subtleties. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

And I was super grateful to be there in that capacity, as opposed to as a regular performer. Tiffany Haddish on Nasty Men, Her ‘S.N.L.’ Feat and ‘Girls Trip’ 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Cabaret and burlesque performers have been getting their nipple tassels in a twist over attempts by club operator Proud to prevent them working for rival establishments. Seven days on stage: Edinburgh festival fringe gets the Hoff 2012-06-01T14:39:26Z

At its most basic, the Harold is made up of extended scenes — ad-libbed on the spot — that require no costumes or props, just a few willing performers and a single audience suggestion. 8 ways to do Improv Fest 2011-04-21T18:33:00Z

But HBO Max subscribers may have been counting on discovering these, along with newer shows and past examples of a favorite creator's or performer's work, without paying an extra fee. Will your favorite TV shows and movies survive Warner Bros. Discovery's culling? 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

This is Underwood’s seventh year as the featured performer for the opener. Joan Jett, Underwood to perform ‘Sunday Night Football’ open 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

There’s a mystery at the heart of “Eschaton” — something to do with a vanished performer. In These Immersive Shows, the Jury Is In (Your Home) 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

With all the emphasis on audiences being kept still and quiet, you’d think performers wanted us to pretend we’re not there. Critic’s Notebook: Maestro at Work: Hold That Cough 2013-12-31T22:27:31Z

“I’ve always hated this disappearance of a performer. No one leaves.” Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

His attorney on Sunday released a statement saying the allegations have already been discredited, and that the performer "does not intend to dignify these allegations with any comment." Another alleged rape victim of Bill Cosby speaks out on CNN 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

Chris Bowers, one of Morty’s owners, calls it “the greatest video you ever saw in your life,” and notes that, when performers come into town, they often ask him to show it to them. How Ms. Pat overcame drugs, prison and abuse — and rose to comedy stardom 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

A coffeehouse serves up caffeine and acoustic sets from festival performers and is a good nighttime vantage point for watching actual fireflies. A Selection of Summer Music Festivals 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

She’s a troublesome performer, irascible, ill-tempered and almost impossible to book. Review: Simone Biopic Nina Is All Wrong, But Who's to Blame? 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

He’s one of today’s most impressive, and often daunting, performers on any instrument. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

But in her heyday Squires, who was born in the shadow of the Llanelli tin works, was one of the UK's most successful performers and the highest-paid postwar entertainer. These Shining Lives, Knee Deep, Mayfest: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-05-11T05:00:24Z

And it mocks the relationship between performer and fan. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Steve Martin: The Television Stuff’: A Comedian’s Evolution 2012-09-17T21:49:26Z

This generative spirit spilled over into the commingling of performers and audience members. FORM Arcosanti, a Music Festival That Thinks Small 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Seven performers sat at a table, microphones in front of them, and started solving math problems: Each time an equation was solved, they emitted a sound of their choosing. Hearing Yoko Ono All Over Again 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

“I put up 30 Christmas trees at my house,” said Chance Smith, a performer turned entertainment manager. Christmas at Dollywood, With Streetmosphere and a Chicken Lady 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

At first she was only an occasional performer, but she soon became the group’s star attraction — and Mr. Turner’s wife. Tina Turner, Singer of Explosive Power, Is Dead at 83 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

But the message that’s sent when female performers cover their perfectly contoured cheekbones and rouged lips seems twice as significant, especially when they say they’re feminists. Sia is rejecting fame. Which has made her more famous than ever. 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

The couple chose the Cutting Room for sentimental reasons: Mr. Raleigh has been a frequent performer there. They Shared a Cab Ride, Then a Life Together 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

And because he did not retire from either role until around the age of 90, he is much more immediately and vividly remembered than most performers who live to such a great age. Peter Sallis: veteran actor with charm, presence and an unmistakable voice 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Traveling With Dad to Hearts Unknown The Australian actor Hugo Weaving has the kind of blockbuster credits and genre fame that can overshadow a performer’s range. Movie Review : ‘Last Ride,’ Australian Film Starring Hugo Weaving 2012-07-05T22:04:37Z

Featuring 25,000 performers from more than 70 countries, the five festivals attract audiences of around 4.5 million people to the Scottish capital every August. Edinburgh festivals, including Fringe comedy showcase, canceled 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

This is an appropriate balance, since “Seven Pillars” is an auteur’s vision that was also shaped through an unusually close collaboration with its performers. One Composer, Four Players, ‘Seven Pillars’ 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Probably the day’s least experienced live performers, they made up for what they lacked in chops with vivacity, closing their set with a “Hollaback Girl” sing-along while dousing the crowd with Super Soakers. In its third home, Trillectro festival finds its strongest beat yet 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z

Buketoff sought out performers adequate to the difficulties of the work, which sometimes separates the choir into 12 independent voices. Steinberg’s ‘Passion Week’ by Clarion Choir 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

I spoke with Akira by phone about why pregnant women turned her on as a kid, falling in love with co-stars, and being typecast as an Asian performer. “I’m in love with being on display”: Adult film star Asa Akira on her insatiable love of porn 2014-05-04T00:00:00Z

In this case, the presence of these performers tends to inspire dark thoughts about the intelligence and sensitivity of actors as a class. Actors Flock to Netflix to Satisfy Their Most Loyal Fans 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Honestly, it only seems like good manners to hold your applause, please, ladies and gentlemen, and let a performer be a character instead of a star. Theater Talkback: Hold the Entrance Applause, Please 2012-10-04T16:55:14Z

The true performer knows that their craft demands seduction, for the lure of the stage is the thrill of escape. ‘Broadway’ Review: Life on the Margins 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

"We are frustrated that the production company will not enter into meaningful dialogue with us about paying performers," the spokesman said in a statement. You Me Bum Bum Train gives actors a bad ride, says union 2012-07-13T14:56:46Z

Seeking the performers’ consent for each sensitive adjustment, and fielding sporadic requests from Ms. Keiley, who watched from the sidelines, Ms. Sina added more kisses and roaming hands, more overlapping of bodies. Need to Fake an Orgasm? There’s an ‘Intimacy Choreographer’ for That 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

But they don't, and earlier this month, a man with a 30-year membership was barred from the museum for life after he groped one of the performers. Naked News: We're Still Prudes! Even at the Museum 2010-04-26T20:42:00Z

But the Scherzo and the Finale seemed to pull the performers together in common purpose and passion, bringing the concert to a triumphal conclusion. Flourishes From Denmark, Stockhausen’s ‘Stimmung’ and Marc-André Hamelin 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Unlike the New York Fringe, this festival, with more than 150 performances, is not juried and the performers keep all of the box-office receipts. The Week Ahead: Feb. 20 ? 26 2011-02-17T15:17:47Z

With a wondrous knack for combining magical, mystical and dark tales, Marisa Carnesky is the perfect performer to bring Halloween to artistic life and still raise hairs on the back of your neck. This week's new events 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

In 1969 Robert Moran's "39 Minutes for 39 Autos" transformed San Francisco into a massive performance site with 100,000 performers, and for a while staging something in a car became a Bay Area thing. 'Hopscotch' moves around L.A. and sometimes transports 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

“Being an actor at heart, he was more disposed to letting the performers take the lead in terms of executing the scene,” Mr. Kernes said. John Leslie, Actor in Pornographic Films, Dies at 65 2010-12-10T06:30:00Z

One of her favorite shows didn’t revolve around a famous name—the 1988 musical “Sarafina!,” featuring some two dozen performers from South Africa. Brigitte Lacombe’s Behind-the-Scenes Photos of Iconic Theatre Performances 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

“He’s just the most alive, kinetic, earthy performer.” Dance: David Neumann?s All-American Meal 2010-02-26T15:44:00Z

Mr. Northrup, who died on Monday at 73 in Sawyer, Minn., was a published author, columnist, playwright, poet, performer and commentator with crossover appeal beyond Indian country, his books winning state and regional awards. Jim Northrup, Vietnam Veteran Who Wrote About Life on the Reservation, Dies at 73 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Tuesday’s performer is Dog on Fleas, a whimsical band with a lively stage show that promises to wend its way through the audience. Spare Times for Children for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

They saw and captured the magic moment when the performer made electrifying, charismatic contact with the audience. Postscript: Albert Maysles, 1926-2015 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

In "Light Dance I," "Light Dance II" and "Light Dance III," which work as a single super-wide triptych, they're costumed performers, partially glimpsed among an abstract verve of horizontal shapes: spotlight, stage-curtain, shadows. 'Videowatercolors' play with time and space 2011-11-02T21:05:05Z

The performers occasionally seemed to step over one another, not allowing the humor to breath. Critic’s Notebook: Tightrope Comedy, on the Fly 2012-07-05T21:08:32Z

It really isn’t all that easy for young, self-conscious performers to portray young, self-conscious characters convincingly. Theater Review: David Rabe?s ?Early History of Fire,? at the Acorn Theater 2012-05-01T02:00:00Z

Saluting White as a great performer and “national treasure,” he deemed her “one of the most caring and loving human beings I’ve ever known.” Nearing 100, Betty White’s life is a page-turner in new book 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

In 2021 he won a Brass Ring award — the Oscars of the international attractions industry — for best performer. Christmas at Dollywood, With Streetmosphere and a Chicken Lady 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

Upstairs in the rehearsal space a few minutes later, Ms. Abramovic was waiting with a handful of performers, who sang for Mr. Tisci in Hebrew, Arabic and Latin. Givenchy’s Riccardo Tisci Is the King of Fashion Week 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

It’s exceedingly casual, with the two performers weaving around seated viewers while chatting about themselves and books they have or haven’t read and climbing on each other. On Artists and Audiences at American Realness 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

This paved the way for another fairly recent phenomenon: relying on celebrities and performers to affirm one’s own political beliefs. For all their wattage, the biggest celebrities still couldn’t elect a president 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

But the camera quickly moves outside, where the museum becomes a kind of stage set for tourists and street performers. 2010-01-30T05:18:00Z

His show recalibrates the data, placing more emphasis on Trump’s genius as a performer — a performer limited to one larger-than-life role, that of Donald Trump. Trump as theater: Mike Daisey's one-man show, 'The Trump Card,' delves into the Donald phenomenon 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

All three performers are longtime members of Labyrinth, which was founded in 1992 as the Latino Actors Base. Review: Alpha Male Romantic Problems in ‘Devil of Choice’ 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z

What is clear so far is that Oliver is sure-footed and charismatic performer. John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z

A stunt performer playing Spider-Man in a Broadway musical has received minor injuries after taking a fall during Monday night's preview show. Spider-Man falls during show 2010-12-22T10:55:03Z

He’s a phenomenal actor and all around triple-threat type of performer. On summer tour, dancing brothers Maks and Val Chmerkovskiy get personal 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Thanks to the Bang on a Can example, composers and performers have taken back the new music scene from the establishment. Bang on a Can All-Stars launch their 'Road Trip' in Hollywood, and it's a fun ride 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z

This annual storytelling festival, now in its second year, boasts an array of more than 40 shows throughout seven days, with a focus on marginalized voices and performers. 5 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

Over three interviews this summer, she seemed consistently at ease — hyper-articulate, with a born performer’s inclination to augment her speech with silly voices, or by breaking into song. Gender Is a Construct. Christine and the Queens Built a Bulldozer. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

On a giant hamster wheel in their Brooklyn studio, and in spectacular feats on London landmarks, performers seemingly defy the laws of physics. 'Born to Fly' captures Elizabeth Streb in action 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

All the performers seemed at ease on stage, with communicative singing, excellent diction, intelligent phrasing and well-calibrated acting, neither too broad nor too subtle. Music Review: Finding High Spirits in Shakespeare 2011-05-09T21:42:29Z

Local and touring musical acts rub shoulders with burlesque performers, exhibiting artists and all-night party people. Philadelphia’s new Rail Park is the city’s answer to Manhattan’s High Line 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Margaret Talbot doesn't shy away from considering her father's limitations as a performer. Review: 'The Entertainer' depicts old Hollywood 2013-01-14T18:38:08Z

Bausch's genius was always for revealing the individuality of her performers, but in this staging of Kontakthof, it acquires a new and infinitely tender twist. Kontakthof | Dance review 2010-04-02T20:30:00Z

On Feb. 22, the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra and the opera will perform a concert featuring around 150 performers, including youth singers. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

And fans of the subversive Australian cabaret performer and Edinburgh favorite Meow Meow will be happy to know that she will be doing a festival-long run of late-night shows this year. Edinburgh Festival to Feature Zinnie Harris Works and a New Alan Ayckbourn Play 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

In "Smash," Ivy is a seasoned ensemble performer pursuing stardom, but she can't quite seem to escape the chorus. 'Smash's' Megan Hilty 'obsessed' with singing 2012-01-25T23:36:04Z

The performer spoke with Salon about “The Wound,” his music, and being openly gay in South Africa. “My entire life I’ve been trying to find an identity something bigger than me.” Singer Nakhane Touré on his impressive screen debut in “The Wound” 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The performers and musicians — subjected to daily testing for the coronavirus during a week of rehearsals — appeared on a platform situated between the spectators and the cavernous, otherwise empty auditorium. Perspective | Renée Fleming and Vanessa Williams sang at the Kennedy Center. And it turned the electricity back on. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

The publication honors those whose lifelong contributions to the art form — as performers, creators and collaborators — have pushed it forward. Dance Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T00:43:41Z

In his new work, “Almodóvar Dystopia,” Mr. Ramos channels the Spanish filmmaker’s droll extravagance into an uninhibited escapade for six naked performers. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

The talent — as the entertainment industry collectively labels performers — may produce to ensure their own juicy roles. Legend, Pitt among stars taking new power role: TV producer 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

The band claimed they were injured in a van accident during a tour with the performer. 6 celebrities who have appeared on court shows 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

But some advocates believe that it is flatly offensive for a non-transgender performer to play a transgender part. Who Gets to Play the Transgender Part in Hollywood? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

ACM Presents: Superstar Duets This new special features pairings of performers from 50th Academy of Country Music Awards. Friday's TV Highlights: '21 Years: Richard Linklater' on Showtime 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

And that in his prime as a virtuoso performer — say, the 1960s through the 1990s — Perlman was often the one that American music fans went to for high-quality recordings of the great composers' violin compositions. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

If he had a weakness as a performer, it was his workaholic’s tendency to accept projects out of the second drawer, just to keep the wheels spinning. DVDs: On DVD, ?Bob Hope: Thanks for the Memories Collection? 2010-06-05T02:15:00Z

But one crucial performer went unnamed, in the film’s credits or, initially, anywhere else — Marni Nixon, who provided the singing for Natalie Wood’s Maria. ‘West Side Story’: How We Covered the Classic N.Y.C. Musical 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

For Ms. Maye, 88, it means defying gravity and singing with the force of a performer half her age, exploring the many layers of a voice whose richness and warmth remain nearly undiminished. Review: Warmth of the American Songbook, From 2 Keepers of the Flame 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

The best known is yellow ‘King Alfred’, a top-selling old selection that is quickly giving way to better performers. Daffodil Planting Guide 2013-04-24T23:50:04.210Z

One of the male performers is a young man on his second shoot, performing under the name Tony Prince. How the internet killed porn 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z

It’s hard to discuss early American popular music without Macon, a vaudeville performer in the early 20th century who became the first star of the Grand Ole Opry, rightfully deemed “the grandfather of country music.” The other side of America’s iconic folk anthology is entrancing — but also plenty disturbing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

In other words, the performers should ignore the chamber music mantra of closely listening to and collaborating with colleagues and instead think as a soloist. Music Review: Philharmonia Quartett Berlin at Weill Recital Hall 2012-10-14T22:09:02Z

But Sidibe, who is far less experienced as a performer, holds her own in "Precious." Gabourey Sidibe: Playing the victim 2010-02-23T17:01:00Z

Seeing a show at Radio City Music Hall piqued her interest in becoming a stage performer. Review | In her memoir, Debbie Harry gives an unvarnished look at her life in the punk scene 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Attendance and revenue plummeted in the months following Blackfish’s release, partners and performers cut ties with the park, state legislators introduced bills banning Orca captivity, and company stock saw a 50% drop-off in value. Can a movie bring about major corporate change? 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

Some sets are built raised so performers can stand up straight. 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

In the last decade, there has been a flurry of plays, movies and television shows in which directors and coaches push performers to uncomfortable places. Learning Lines. And Crossing Them. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

At this show the young performers will consider all that’s laughable about the holidays, whether it’s the horrible sweater from Grandma or the carolers who won’t stay on key. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 14-20 2012-12-13T23:06:51Z

For the performer with the largest voice in rap - and sometimes in all of music - he deserves praise for not conforming to mainstream and radio rules like other pop stars. Review: Kanye West eerie, erratic on 'Yeezus' 2013-06-17T13:04:18Z

Perhaps an apt way to describe the bulk of ’80s and ’90s performers, such as an aging Dean Martin, this reputation now couldn’t be further from the truth. Vegas was once where music stars faded away. Now it’s cool enough for Lady Gaga and Cardi B. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

It explores the wild, weird world of Branson, Mo., through the lives of performers who earn their livings there. Friday Coda: Meredith Graves, Minutemen, U2, #Fugazi1888 and more 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

But Diavolo’s current performers don’t object, even though bruises, strains, friction burns and worse are not unusual. Machines Of Movement, With Bruises 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z

For just over an hour Mr. Keszler’s music waxed and waned, the installation clanging and groaning along with the performers. Music Review: Eli Keszler’s ‘L-Carrier’ at Eyebeam in Chelsea 2012-06-10T22:00:27Z

Sequins and feathers are business attire for the drag-queen performers in “Dorian’s Closet.” Review | The drag queens carry the show in a methodical ‘Dorian’s Closet’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

No other rock performer had embraced fashion and theater with such enthusiasm. David Bowie: Back to His Mysterious Best 2013-03-07T12:00:25Z

In “Notes on the Cinematograph,” Bresson’s scattered, collected musings on filmmaking, the director writes of striving to remove any signs of mental activity from his performers; he wanted to capture the “automatism of real life.” Want to Try a Robert Bresson Film? Look to Clint Eastwood 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

The group’s emphasis was on rigorous actor training and the performers’ physicality. Anne Bogart Is Not Entirely Retiring 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

Hundreds of people signed up during the pandemic, paying a subscription fee to be taught by Broadway and West End performers. Jeanna de Waal Has Already Forgotten About That ‘Diana’ Film 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z

Wearing the armor of my professional identity, I arranged to do an interview with her and another stage performer I had adored in my youth, Christopher Plummer. Critic’s Notebook: Luminous Julie Harris, Close Up and Afar 2013-08-25T21:50:35Z

She liked that the screenplay wasn’t overly didactic about the emotions the performers were to portray. How Rose Matafeo Shaped the Romance in ‘Starstruck’ 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

The expropriation of the real participants' faces by those of sleeker performers begins to seem like an insult. Clio Barnard's The Arbor is out of lip-synch with reality 2010-10-25T10:06:00Z

Not that the performers in this “Walküre” needed much help bringing the atmosphere — they needed more help bringing an audience to Tanglewood’s Shed, which was rather sparsely attended over the weekend. Review: ‘Die Walküre’ Brings the Thunder to Tanglewood 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

There is a high cringe factor in watching these performers working so hard with such odd, weak material. AP critic takes toddler to epic flop `Oogieloves' 2012-09-07T20:25:10Z

Occasionally, they fluffed their lines and made a joke of it, which only heightened the feeling of privileged complicity between performers and audience. Review: In ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ a Ravenous Plant Is Reborn at City Center 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Screen thesps are thus not required to operate at a high volume – making a performer such as Nicolas Cage something of a rarity, and loud acting – beyond the stage or opera house – a dying art. Clip joint: films that feature yelling 2013-03-28T10:00:09Z

Six performers suspended on a huge latticework, above, wind and unwind their bodies, as Tad Shannon’s lighting undergoes vibrant color shifts. Spare Times: For Children, for April 6-12 2012-04-05T21:26:58Z

Everything you hear, you see: The 15 performers play a largely memorized score on a mixed ensemble of baroque and modern instruments. A Queer Revolutionary Classic Book, Now Onstage With Music 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

An explosive physical performer, Mr. Barnett is considered by many to be the greatest street comic of all time, performing inside and around the fountain at Washington Square Park. Catch Charlie Barnett and Other Rising Stand-Up Stars Who Never Hit the Top 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

After the show was acquired by the WB network, Sherman-Palladino insisted on holding out until they found the ideal performers for each role, regardless of their prior experience or fame. Why ‘Gilmore Girls’ Endures 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

It was an incredible experience, just meeting Shakespeare as a student and a performer, and playing that incredible part. To see or not to see? Experiencing Shakespeare during the pandemic offers its own rewards. 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

This hunger for the new is especially present in the younger performers, who are heavily represented in the festival premieres. City Ballet Readies Architecture of Dance Festival 2010-04-24T02:16:00Z

Also not helping Mr. Friedman’s likability is that he’s a wooden performer, awkward in the style of bad community theater. Review: ‘Phalaris’s Bull,’ or How a Man Comes to Terms With Life 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

However, it was the radical proximity of the guests and performers that made the evening. I Went to My First Classical Music Concert. It Was in My Living Room. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

The show features 12 performers who tumble, contort and juggle, and it will open Nov. 30. New Victory Theater Season Will Bring Circus Acts and Songs 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The opposite, however, is true of Rust’s own effect as a performer. Swipe Left: “Love” and the Unromantic Comedy 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

But given the right performers, individual works can also charm and beguile. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

Seattle's burlesque performers may not be able to drag it out quite that artfully — but they're sure to bring some style and humor to their homage. Centennial tribute to Seattle-born Gypsy Rose Lee 2011-01-05T20:52:04Z

The décor evokes that history: Photos of past performers line the exposed brick walls, lit by Edison bulbs that hang from the original wood-beamed ceiling. Restaurant Report: Thunderbird in Indianapolis 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

But under the circumstances, it just seems like the same questionable, stay-in-your-place choice that movies have always made for black performers — and an excuse for the plot to ride the subway. So That’s Who You Call: The Politics of the New ‘Ghostbusters’ 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Springsteen is nothing if not an energetic performer, and he rocked the house into a frenzy even when his message was grim. ArtsBeat: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Apollo Theater in New York 2012-03-10T09:43:47Z

The core of “Straight Outta Oz” is the story of Hall’s struggle to make it as a performer, while navigating the world as a gay black man. What happens when your whimsical ‘Wizard of Oz’ obsession actually pays off? 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Everything else aside, Schumer would not be the first popular performer to lose a grip on their talent in the first flush of major fame. Amy Schumer’s missing edge: Has she outgrown her own show already? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Scovel is such an exciting live performer — and he really is one of those comics you need to see in person — because his improvisational instinct appears to be at odds with his own material. A Comic on the Verge, His Absurdism on the Fly 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Dawson is an appealing performer, and it’s notable to see a woman of color starring in an overwhelmingly white genre. Where have all the erotic thrillers gone? 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

There are maverick performers and then there's Claudia O'Doherty, a comedian whose off-the-wall shows will leave you amused, baffled, provoked and delighted. This week's new live comedy 2012-08-17T23:05:31Z

Audience and performers alike are on a room-size mattress, which feels cozy until ominous lighting and sound begin to intrude. Theater Listings for Aug. 19-25 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

And more often than not, our guides are to be found among performers, and there, too, we are not entirely satisfied. On the Runway Blog: From McQueen to Venus: Brave Women 2013-08-30T19:40:45Z

In such moments, the performers become conduits for an irresistible life force, the same spirit that pushes Billy and Julie into each other’s arms. Review: A ‘Carousel’ That Spins on a Romantically Charged Axis 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Her new show, “Stardust: A Night in the Cosmos,” which she performed at 54 Below on Saturday, is a leap forward for a performer who initially evoked a demure, traditional ingénue playing by the rules. Review: Jennifer Sheehan at 54 Below, With Stars Her Eyes 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

We believe the performers, most of whom are professional, should be paid. You Me Bum Bum Train gives actors a bad ride, says union 2012-07-13T14:56:46Z

I was struck, for instance, by how two performers linked legs at the ankle. Dance Review: Skybetter & Associates Dance at Joyce SoHo 2012-04-09T21:24:23Z

The performer spoke on condition of anonymity because the performer was not authorized to speak publicly about the accident. Broadway 'Spider-Man' stunt double falls to stage 2010-12-21T12:10:12Z

Spokesman Jim Brown says the hope is that the shorter format will capture more viewers, bigger performers and generate more donations for the nonprofit group. MDA Telethon shaves 15 hours off annual fundraiser 2010-10-07T01:46:00Z

But the performers often seem to be in different productions. | 'A Doll's House': A Nora Who Could Text All Her Discontents 2011-07-25T22:00:10Z

His surgeon at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston fashioned a shield for his vocal cords — as if he were Pavarotti, Mr. Prine joked, instead of a performer who talked more than sang. John Prine Endures, With a Half-Smile and a Song 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Music festivals, where tiny acts can play to huge crowds, have proliferated, creating more opportunities for under-the-radar performers to be discovered. Pop Music Makes Way for the Post-Diva Star 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z

The host, presenters and performers will be announced later. Hollywood Film Awards to premiere on CBS in November 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

It may cast some nations as poor performers and others as world leaders, despite both having issues with opacity. Illuminating dark seas: Why fisheries management must be more transparent 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

As a performer, Ms. Said was a rare combination of taunting and cheerful. Poly Styrene, Punk Singer of X-Ray Spex, Is Dead at 53 2011-04-27T01:46:31Z

It led to desegregation in some theaters when performers refused to sing for whites-only audiences. Beloved yet problematic: Seattle Opera tackles the cultural controversies behind ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

“He was a very generous performer. He’s a big personality. I found that very attractive.” A Funny Relationship (as in Funny Ha-Ha) 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

They also want to highlight the tour's "blurred" barrier between performer and audience, Dugdale said. Coldplay to release second live album in November 2012-09-26T10:06:49Z

Ms. Kent was an inexperienced performer, but Universal Studios had offered her a contract and provided rudimentary acting lessons after she won the 1925 Miss Hollywood beauty pageant. Barbara Kent, Silent-Film Star, Dies at 103 2011-10-20T00:27:23Z

The three artists — the acts with the most nods at Sunday’s Grammy Awards — celebrated their nominations for best new artist Thursday night at Spotify’s annual event honoring breakthrough performers. Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Rosalía rule at pre-Grammy Spotify gig 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

That’s a good summation of the paradox of vérité, for which it’s rarely possible to conclude when the camera has turned subjects into performers. Does Cinéma Vérité Exist? Watch These 2 Movies to Find Out 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

“I was that girl. I left Mexico. I knew I wasn’t going to be able to become a performer in my hometown.” ‘For the culture’: The moment arrives for ‘In the Heights’ 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

“Melodrama” bristles with pulpy romance and pulpier romantic disaster, rendered by a performer not content with the usual language they inspire. The Best Albums of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Within the heat of the son-et-lumière extravaganza, the performers keep their cool, though few engage your imagination. | 'Enron': At the Broadhurst Theater, Revisiting a Scandal 2010-04-28T02:26:00Z

But he proved a charismatic performer, his energy translating into a winning “Donna è mobile,” for example. Will Crutchfield Conducts ‘Rigoletto’ at Caramoor 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Even scalpers have approached the performer to cut deals. Kid Rock, Rolling Stones on scalping, summer tours 2013-05-24T10:03:10Z

Of Jumbo's own skill as a performer, however, there is no doubt. Josephine and I – review 2013-07-19T16:49:00Z

The revelation of “Hamilton” is how easily Miranda’s hip-hop rhymes work like a verse-driven Shakespearean history, and how profoundly audiences have responded to seeing performers of color portraying the country’s white founders. Pulitzers: Broadway’s ‘Hamilton,’ novel ‘The Sympathizer’ among arts winners 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Usher is the latest addition to the list of performers slated for the MTV Video Music Awards, the network revealed to Pop & Hiss. Usher to perform on the MTV Video Music Awards 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

At one of the top LA agencies for performers, LA Direct, the accountant Francine Amidor laments the "devastating" impact of piracy. How the internet killed porn 2012-06-05T19:00:01Z

We've got to maximise the power we have," he says, "in order to protect Equity's membership – the performers, the stage managers, the directors, the writers. Ask Equity 2010-09-15T21:01:00Z

Laws passed in the 1990s guarantee royalties to performers from online streams, but the United States remains almost alone in the world for not paying this “performance right,” as it is known, on terrestrial radio. Musicians Sing for a Cause That’s Their Own 2014-02-24T22:48:32Z

Or that there really are rhymes for “meniscus”? Or that any performer possessed the concentration to keep all these words in play for the entire performance? ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Review: Hip-Hop Saves the World 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

The performers, wearing Kaye Voyce’s jauntily eclectic costumes, alternately sit, like extras on a movie set, or rush around in high frenzy, scattering papers and props. Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Images of bodies wrapped in foil did pop, but performers in whiteface juxtaposed with indistinct photographs of atrocities made you long for the missing audience-interactive elements. Dance Review: Carolee Schneemann Conjures Days of Judson Dance Theater 2012-09-25T21:54:41Z

And though the first scene promises that the production will emphasize the personalities of the performers as much as their skills, that promise is forgotten. Review: Chen Shi-Zheng’s ‘Double It,’ Feats of Derring-Do, With Vignettes 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

For most audiences, the magic of child performers is the way they compel us to access our own feelings and reconnect with our inner child. Child stars: The power and the price of cuteness 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

Lancaster cast Mr. Curtis as his protégé, a circus performer who becomes his romantic rival, in his company’s 1956 production “Trapeze.” Tony Curtis, Hollywood Icon, Dies at 85 2010-09-30T11:11:00Z

In their solid colors, the performers look like drifting balloons. Dance Review: ‘35 ½,’ Choreographed by Aynsley Vandenbroucke 2013-05-19T21:58:03Z

But even as a performer who sometimes works with boxing trainers to prepare for his comedy specials, Louis C. K. was not ready yet to compare himself to Muhammad Ali. The Comic Louis C. K. Has a New Show on FX 2010-06-18T16:28:00Z

More important than the question of whether Bach should be played on historical or contemporary instruments is the general approach performers bring. Review: Tackling Bach, Debussy and Prokofiev at Spectrum 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Flicking through my fringe notebook, I noticed three of the other stand-out shows were also monologues by performers fresh to the single spotlight. Solo Suggs, soliloquising soldiers: the performers who go it alone 2012-08-30T09:25:00Z

A few performers, says Cutter, dropped out after the Capitol attack. Still dazzled by the inauguration show? Here’s how it came together, and why Tom Hanks looked so cold. 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

Earlier, in his dressing room, Mr. Lewis said it was his mission to make up for any previous directors he has worked with who rode roughshod over their performers. Jerry Lewis Directing a Musical ‘Nutty Professor’ 2012-07-18T12:00:00Z

Throughout the steady stream of duets is the intermittent appearance of an older woman as “mum”; on Wednesday, the guest artist was Janet O’Connell, but the performer — a local volunteer — changes each night. Dance Review: Mimulus Cia de Dança Presents ‘Dolores’ at the Joyce 2014-02-28T22:41:17Z

“Now, at readings, he’s less forthcoming, but then he was a performer, the life of the party.” Hearing Genuine Voices of Midcentury Fiction 2014-01-19T22:40:18Z

A few performers, like Tune-Yards, did double duty, performing live soundtracks for silent films in a movie tent. Critic’s Notebook: Bonnaroo Festival, With Radiohead, Phish and D’Angelo 2012-06-11T22:47:19Z

Emphasising the frailties of memory and the peculiarities of Benjy’s perspective, the performers switch roles in intriguing ways. Signifying something 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

A former child performer, Spears shot to international fame with her 1999 debut album, "Baby One More Time." AP Interview: Britney Spears looking forward to 30 2011-09-22T15:07:12Z

Most of the music is played live by five performers. Review: ‘Whelan/Watson: Other Stories’ Pairs Stars of Ballet 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Did this approach appeal to you as performers? Dominic West and Ruth Wilson of 'The Affair' lighten up for a chat 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

With this one, our approach was that this is a two-hander, this was a love story, and Vision’s character and Paul, the performer, had as much grist for him. How the ‘WandaVision’ Creator Brought Her Vision (and Wanda’s) to Life 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

The former Boomtown Rats frontman will also be a showcase performer at the music portion of the conference, which begins on March 16 in Austin, Texas. Bob Geldof is keynote speaker at South by Southwest 2011-01-13T00:00:20Z

While stillness and silent transmission of thought are the most important parts of small-screen acting, a performer also needs to be able to shatter the mask for startling contrast. David Tennant and Olivia Colman: the best actors on TV? 2013-04-25T11:07:42Z

Speaking of which, the performers spend much of their time climbing up and down a series of stepped platforms to avoid the oncoming hologram. Review: ‘Sincerely, Oscar’ Is Some Embarrassing Evening 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

As the performers deliver this labyrinthine plot — playing guitar, accordion, banjo, saw and violin all the while — they move purposefully among the audience, gently displacing those who happen to be in their way. Review: Sailing on Silly Seas With ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Now in its fourth decade, the festival in the picturesque university town builds on a strong Dutch early music tradition, built up over decades by great performers such as the late harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt. Trip Tips: Mozart to Masekela, summer festivals for all tastes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Latecomers — hit with spotlights and taunted by the performers — are part of the show. Why is a zany comedy troupe performing ancient Roman theater? The story behind the Troubies' 'Haunted House' 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

In “Carne y Arena,” whose virtual-reality component runs about seven minutes, traditionally photographed landscapes provide the backdrop for digitally rendered performers. Iñárritu’s ‘Carne y Arena’ Simulates a Harrowing Desert Trek to a New Life 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

But Ms. Pope, an assured performer with a brazen alto, shines in the role, changing her accent and identity even more often than her bloomers. Review: In ‘Horseplay,’ a Terrible Actress Becomes Her Era’s Kim Kardashian 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Then there are the performers who’ve played here before — Portuguese fado singer Mariza and Soweto Gospel Choir, among them — who will be part of the UW World Series for the first time. Great things coming in UW World Series 2013-14 season 2013-02-20T20:54:20Z

The music and arts festival opened Friday afternoon to decent crowds and some popular performers. Weather’s mixed, but Bumbershoot crowds don’t seem to mind 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

There were only men on the bill at the Five Boroughs event, though the underground wrestling scene includes a small but growing number of women performers. Inside the Ring of Underground Wrestling 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

But a free concert in Central Park is always a special event for performers as well as New Yorkers. Bocelli marks another milestone with NYC concert 2011-09-16T17:25:24Z

To them, the performer's case being overturned means he's innocent of the crime. Are some stars and celebrity cases simply too famous to ensure that justice will be served? 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

But Altman got one more great, full-length performance out of the performer with this period gangster comedy-drama, set in the city and time of the director’s youth. Watch These Great Harry Belafonte Screen Performances 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Like no other Ailey dance I can think of, “Home” shows off the dancers as individuals, with each performer adding textures to the already rich hip-hop-based structures. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey With Jiri Kylian’s ‘Petite Mort’ at City Center 2012-12-09T23:21:42Z

Spears, 30, is a former child performer who became an international star with her 1999 debut album, "Baby One More Time." AP source: Britney Spears in as 'X Factor' judge 2012-05-10T22:43:08Z

The show took the form of a hectic, multipart dance, with performers representing everything from factory workers to cheerleaders to hip-hop girls to a “Jah army.” New York Men’s Fashion Week: The Mixtape 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

“In public, he’s a performer. Behind closed doors, he is polite and respectful and wants to hear from other people,” Lara Trump said. The Other Trump 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

Over five days, circus performers, poets, DJs and even the English National Ballet will appear on one of the festival's 100+ stages. Glastonbury: 11 acts to watch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

But the past year has already been trying for the Cirque family in other ways – and families of Cirque performers. The rise and fall of Cirque du Soleil 2013-07-09T11:44:22Z

As a film and as a series of screenings and as performers we want to create experiences in the real world where people feel unified with other people they do and don’t know. ArtsBeat Blog: 'Girl Walk//All Day': A Conversation With the Director 2011-12-06T20:25:45Z

He demonstrates combinations to students and company members with the sharpness of a performer fresh off the stage. Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

For the Birmingham premiere, the 1,000 performers included nurses, teachers, manual labourers, lawyers, school children and a smattering of music students, plus many members of amateur choirs. Shouting, whispering, clapping - Lang's 'Crowd Out' has it all 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Amazingly trim and towering at 75, he still has the radiance of a performer who gathers warmth from the spotlight. ‘Lady, Be Good!,’ an Encores! Version of the Gershwins’ 1924 Hit 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Yet Ms. Arias wields the tools of documentary theater with such dexterity, and her performers have so transparently lived with the damage that the war wrought on them, that their recollections feel utterly universal. Trump, Trauma and a War That Won’t Go Away 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

It now feels bigger than ever, and it should: This year also featured arguably the most impressive collection of performers to date. Review | For Broccoli City Festival, growth is a constant – especially with Lil Wayne as a performer 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

Denied entry to the conducting class at the Paris Conservatory, partly because he beats time with his left hand, he formed Pygmalion in 2006, drawing on friends and performers he knew. A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’ 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

Born Daniel Patrick Carroll, the performer was once described by Bob Hope as "the most glamorous woman in the world". La Rue's life set for big screen 2012-07-10T16:39:45Z

He made his Broadway debut in “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” — and was one of its several performers who got hurt. Unconventional Summer Stars, Including a Helicopter 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

The halftime show typically features some of the world’s most well-known performers. Shakira to celebrate Latino culture and her birthday at Super Bowl 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

TV stars Some performers are grumbling that TV comics are vacuuming up all the drop-in punters. The G2 Edinburgh festival Clap-o-meter: reading two 2010-08-11T13:31:00Z

I’m a designer, I’m a writer, I’m a performer a little bit. Isaac Mizrahi, on Collecting Art in Search of the Me Factor 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

This chameleonic performer’s efforts over the past decade have been intriguing if somewhat scattershot. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Watching a performer think on their feet can be an exciting part of a live performance. Perfecting the laughs 2010-08-09T11:09:00Z

In the finale the performers invited audience members onto the stage. Dance Review: ?Tango y Vida? at Chase Latino Cultural Festival 2010-08-02T22:00:00Z

This is a concept where both extremes of the political spectrum appear to be in agreement, even though performers who mine comedy from current events and the news itself would beg to differ. The perils of "dangerous" comedy, or what makes a notorious warlord laugh? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Slowly but surely, though, scholars and performers are embracing Ustvolskaya’s music, which is, as she characterized it in that 1994 interview, truly new: grueling but cathartic, shockingly visceral and fleetingly metaphysical. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

But it’s her presence as a performer that’s her greatest strength. Jen Rosenblit’s ‘a Natural dance’ Plays at the Kitchen 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

At the Grammy Awards last month, the rap trio De La Soul was booked for the show’s 50th anniversary tribute to hip-hop, alongside more than two dozen performers. De La Soul’s Music Is Finally Back. It’s a Bittersweet Victory. 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

One of the performers, the classical guitarist David Leisner, electrified the proceedings with his challenge to the research foundation’s claim on its Web site that “there is no cure for dystonia at this time.” Critic?s Notebook: Dystonia, Which Struck Glenn Gould and Other Musicians 2012-03-13T22:19:34Z

Since the United Kingdom consists, at least nominally, of four different nations with separate identities, politics must be taken into account and each performer will represent one of Britain’s components. ArtsBeat: Pop Acts Chosen for Opening of Olympics 2012-05-01T18:34:59Z

On Monday evening in the Abrons Arts Center the seven dancers of the BodyCartography Project and a “chorus” of nine performers exhibited a kind of behavior that at first suggested neurological disturbance. Dance Review: BodyCartography Project at American Realness Festival 2013-01-17T21:47:00Z

You have to earn it here and that’s what a performer wants. Bryan Cranston: ‘I’m a mutt. I relate to that. It’s what I am’ 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z

The movie is the fifth fictional feature by this Brazilian director, whose sensational 2002 debut, “Madame Satã,” was a fictionalized biography of a notorious nightclub performer and criminal in Rio de Janeiro. A Festival Starts With the Sensual 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

The actor first rose to prominence as a child performer on the Disney Channel television series “Even Stevens,” and in 2008 starred in the Steven Spielberg-directed “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Shia LaBeouf Is Arrested at Anti-Trump Art Show in New York 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The world that Anna Sperber — performer and choreographer — inhabits onstage is not yours or mine. Review: Anna Sperber’s Mysteries Remain Intact 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Her mother had great ambitions for her as a performer and enrolled her in stage school, an experience on which Ms. Lewis did not look back fondly. Linda Lewis, British Singer Whose Voice Knew Few Limits, Dies at 72 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Keep looking attentively at the performers, which is what the courtesy of theater demands, or avert your eyes, which is what the courtesy of society demands? | 'Hello Again': Web of Love, Explicitly Woven in Shades of Anguish 2011-03-21T02:01:03Z

Multiple performers told the AP that Domingo harassed them and abused his power while he held management positions at Los Angeles Opera and Washington National Opera. Opera’s Domingo denies abusing power, seeks to clear name 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z

All that is required, as Mr. Greenspan makes abundantly clear, is a performer, a text and an audience. 2010-01-12T07:09:00Z

As Ms. Moore’s career exploded, she became known throughout Hollywood as one of its most disciplined, if demanding, performers. Sabattical Done, Demi Moore Returns 2010-04-16T23:12:00Z

He said he still planned to pay the performers what they are owed. New York City Opera’s Name and Other Assets Attract Suitors 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

The characters fail to come alive, despite the best efforts of the performers. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z

Ms. Kelly, a more seasoned performer, sometimes brings to mind a bespectacled Holly Hughes or Deb Margolin. When Life’s a Crazy Mess, Try Going Onstage 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

In recent years, performances such as the "Arirang" mass games featured performers dressed as panda bears in homage to North Korean ally China. Mickey Mouse takes NKorean stage in show for Kim 2012-07-08T10:51:08Z

The country cut-ups are among the first round of performers announced Wednesday for the annual awards show in Las Vegas. Bryan, Clarkson, Strait to perform at ACM Awards 2013-03-06T12:07:09Z

Championing Mitchell, right or wrong, and trying to stay on her good side is not exactly the same as taking her seriously as a composer and performer. ‘Reckless Daughter’: A Protective Biography of Joni Mitchell 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Aside from loyalty, Ms. Carey’s representatives know all too well that when a performer stumbles — or even appears to stumble — justice is delivered swiftly in the court of public opinion. Mariah Carey and the Art of the Disaster 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Is that the sort of thing that you spark to as a performer? She’s Oscar-Nominated, but Hong Chau Hopes to Stay an Underdog 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Then, with some reluctance, she accepted her first acoustic commission — “Elemental II,” for the musician Kasper T. Toeplitz — and began collaborating more regularly with performers, including on a release with the laptop quartet the Lappetites. For a Composer at 90, There’s Nothing but Time 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

Some of the performers wear elaborate, antiquated black gowns, as if mourners at a Victorian funeral. ‘Toxic Psalms,’ in the Prototype Festival, Explores Ethical Choices 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

The performers in character — many of whom had probably been out of work for months due to the pandemic — acted so excited to entertain my daughter on the other side of our car window. Sesame Place falls short of "Sesame Street" — and after my own child's visit, I should have known 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

Experienced performers are seeking something very specific from the applause, Mr. Abramov said, like extra seconds to catch his or her breath between the end of an adagio and the beginning of a variation. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z

Cameras capture the scenes on the screen-enclosed stage, so that the performers appear as both hazy background figures, operating in isolation, and as larger-than-life projections in a detailed film world. Review: ‘Helen Lawrence’ Has Cops, Blondes, Hustlers and, of Course, a Corpse 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

After the outbreak this month, some artists questioned the government’s decision to close performance venues, concerned that it would hurt performers’ income. Taiwan Was a Covid Haven for Performers. Then Cases Flared. 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

“She runs a big dairy,” he explained as he headed toward a table facing the night’s performer. At 91, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Still Wants to Tell You a Story 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

When they aren’t dancing, the performers sometimes sit on a line of chairs at the back, watching. Dance Review: Building on the Mastery of What Came Before 2011-05-02T22:07:56Z

While both employ the clarity of Cunningham technique, their more direct connection is that Mr. Crossman, a disarming performer, is one of Ms. Bartosik’s dancers. Review: ‘Bound’ and ‘Ecsteriority4 (Part 2)’ Explore Confinement and Collision 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

“She represents a new style of performer,” she said. Beautiful, young Met soprano has a darker past she wants to share 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

“It’s just great to be able to see these performers who we know and love, who don’t necessarily always get the meaty roles that we know they’re capable of,” Julia Cho said. Asian American theater group pushes for the day when it doesn't need #StarringJohnCho 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

When performers sign on as producers of their movies it can feel like a statement of intent. ‘Infinite Storm’ Review: Climb Every Mountain, Ford Every Extreme 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

The choreography and the performers invite and reward close attention, which the structure frustrates. Dance Review: Vicky Shick’s ‘Everything You See’ at Danspace Project 2013-04-19T20:20:37Z

TidalWave previously created a comic book titled “Female Force: Stormy Daniels,” which told the story of her path as an adult-entertainment performer, beginning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, clubs. Stormy Daniels is creating a ‘Space Force’ comic book (and, yes, there’s a character who looks like Trump) 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z

However, as Berg explains, the way many cam streaming sites set up payment structures can intensify the emotional demands of the job, leaving cam performers particularly vulnerable. Cam girl reality: an enticing illusion leaves many models poor and defeated 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Two abreast, performers of at least two genders filed down the sidewalk in identical gray suit jackets and identical gray pleated skirts. A Message of Useful Beauty from New York Fashion Week 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

Q: You have become a role model for women writers and performers over the years. Carol Burnett talks showbiz’s evolution, gut instinct and what TV shows she’d binge on 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Richard influenced legions of performers whose fame would eventually outstrip his own. Rock 'n' roll pioneer Little Richard dies at age 87: Rolling Stone 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

They're both strong performers who combine a mission to explain with a more fundamental need to entertain, which means the gigs will be much more about generating big laughs rather than preaching to the converted. This week's new live comedy 2013-05-11T05:00:21Z

But in general, "The Midsummer Station" doesn't generate much emotion, from either its main performer - or its listeners. Music Review: Owl City forgettable on latest 2012-08-21T16:31:03Z

Huston Powell, who books acts for Lollapalooza, said the festival chose performers not just for the quality of the music but also for engaging live performances. Chicago News Cooperative: Kids These Days: A Group With a Sound if Not a Genre 2011-07-31T02:45:26Z

Cherry and the performers make us care about all of their fates, even that of uptight, prissy Beth Ann and shallow, self-centered Simone. Smart Watch: Why is there yet another season of "13 Reasons Why"? 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z

Rather than weigh him down, though, these reminders seemed to buoy Gibb, an infrequent performer these days. Barry Gibb: A broken heart mended at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

After a preproduction period of picking a story, conceiving music, writing no script and making sure the performers were suitably unprepared, Rice brought everyone together. The play that started without a single written word: '946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

Whatever the future holds, one thing is certain: with a new generation of performers, street dance is here to stay. A new dawn: how street dance came in from the cold 2010-03-23T21:45:00Z

On Friday, Mr. Forster, an ensemble of celebrity performers and a cast and crew of about 300 learned that they were all out of work. Anger for ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Cast, and a Black Eye for Its Promoter 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

The productions will be developed at first via video-conferencing, for as long as government officials require social distancing, and then the goal is for the performers to rehearse together in person and record in studio. One Theater Tries an Alternative to Cancellation: An All-Audio Season. 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

“I hesitate to say that it was something that only performers would understand,” he said. In Barbara Cook’s Final Days, Her Friends Came to Sing at Her Bedside 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

It's his 12th Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart as a performer, songwriter or producer. Bruno Mars: 'SNL' can call me whenever they want 2012-11-06T17:46:04Z

“Untitled Feminist Show” was conceived and directed by Ms. Lee, and choreographed by Faye Driscoll, Morgan Gould and Ms. Lee along with the performers. | 'Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show': Young Jean Lee?s ?Untitled Feminist Show? ? Review 2012-01-16T23:03:34Z

Mr. Wayne then walks us through Sylvester’s evolution from conflicted youngster to full-fledged, cross-dressing performer. 'Mighty Real,' a Musical About the Pop Star Sylvester 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

Tim Crouch, the man in the tatty underwear and the author and solo performer of “I, Malvolio,” squints bleakly into our midst. Theater Review: Tim Crouch’s ‘I, Malvolio,’ at the Duke on 42nd Street 2013-01-15T23:15:07Z

These young artists were chosen not primarily for their singing voices but for their skills as actors and their willingness to rethink what it means to be an opera performer. Music Review: A Streamlined ?Magic Flute,? Reimagined by Peter Brook 2011-07-07T22:03:44Z

He and the other performers are part of “Messiah/Complex,” an iconoclastic new production of Handel’s classic oratorio, which draws on biblical texts to form a stylized narrative of suffering, hope and redemption. A ‘Messiah’ for the Multitudes, Freed From History’s Bonds 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z

In “New Cake Stain,” part of Lucier’s job is to deliver costumes to the performers onstage while wearing a shimmering cape. Dream Logic Mixed With ‘a Catalog of My Interests Back in 1996’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

Brooks, a comedy icon who inspired generations of performers, believes that Lewis is cut from very different cloth compared with Williams. Richard Lewis looks back at his dark comic turns in 'Bundle of Nerves' 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Zheng showed resumes of dozens American and European actors that he represents and said 20 to 30 talent agencies in China's major cities also represent foreign performers. Chinese screen reaches out for more foreign actors 2010-06-16T06:46:00Z

Mitchener has honed these capabilities over nearly 15 years as an experimental vocal performer, but she is also and composer and movement artist. Madness, Royalty and the Music of Screams 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

It’s also a total feast for the three performers in director Aaron Posner’s swaggering entertainment. Review | Having it all as the first female playwright in ‘Or,’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

The solution would be to recruit as collaborators some performers Morley Safer interviewed more than 30 years ago: the Muppets. Critic’s Notebook: Using Song to Break the TV Episodic Monotony 2013-12-08T22:36:42Z

But the character started with purpose: Murray had something to say about the man he was playing, and there was a tension between performer and character that, even today, can produce surprising comedy. Lee Nelson's Well Good Tour ? review 2010-10-18T14:15:00Z

It’s pedestrian, but not; Mr. Gordon transforms those performers, who include drama students from New York University, into regal beings. Dance Review: ‘The Matter/2012,’ by David Gordon at Danspace Project 2012-10-27T02:10:07Z

In all, she spent more than three years as the leading female performer in two of theater history’s most beloved musicals. Martha Wright, Who Played Leading Roles in Beloved Musicals, Dies at 92 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Who's honoring whom is kept secret until the performers who extol them take the stage. For Tom Hanks et al., a capital evening at Kennedy Center Honors gala 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

San Sebastián rescored the work for piano and found willing performers for that version. Music Review: Obscure Works With Famous Allusions 2011-07-08T21:07:05Z

For nearly five decades, stunt performer Terry Leonard has made audiences' hearts pound a little faster. Stuntman Terry Leonard's career grew by leaps and bounds in Hollywood 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Further mechanical options allow the performer to experiment with color and interpretation — rather like Instagram filters. An All-but-Extinct Piano Plays Once More 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

And it meant sometimes avoiding her mother altogether by spending the night with Squat Theater, the collective of exiled Hungarian performers who lived above their performance space in a storefront near the Chelsea. A Daughter of a Warhol Superstar Tells Her Story at Last 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Though it's a cliche to talk about child actors as wise beyond their years, Moretz is quickly making a name as the go-to young performer for heady material. Teen actress flexes muscles in "Kick-Ass" 2010-04-20T00:22:00Z

On a recent evening, the tattooed 27-year-old performer was suspended a few inches above the ground, biting down on a piece of leather hanging from a rope, perfecting a new skill called the “iron jaw.” Florentina Holzinger Makes Everyone Uncomfortable 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Walsh is one of several fine comic performers without much to do. Review: In ‘Life of the Party,’ Melissa McCarthy Goes to College 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

There are the usual extensive showcases for each of the players individually, but the spectacularly virtuosic leader is always a hypnotic performer, whether on his own or driving the others. Antonio Sanchez: Live in New York 2010-09-23T21:39:00Z

Set in a gloomy rehearsal studio, the show is a dark visual comedy about a performer's breakdown. Edinburgh performers bid to reclaim the 'true spirit' of the fringe 2012-08-04T13:23:54Z

Now he's well on his way to becoming a Nigerian afrobeat pioneer in his own right -- as well as a fiery and energetic performer with a strong social and political conscience. Quick Hits: Afrobeat sensation Seun Kuti performs live 2011-08-27T16:01:00Z

“It feels very piecemeal, random, coincidental,” Tom Julian, a fashion branding specialist in New York, said of attempts to market the performer. Dita Von Teese, From Burlesque to a Brand 2012-11-24T00:05:20Z

The guild, which represents the company’s singers, dancers, stage managers, directors and other performers — everyone but the orchestra — has a contract with the Met that runs through July 2014. Metropolitan Opera Disbands Its Ballet Corps 2013-05-20T21:43:54Z

Last September, five performers of uncommonly concentrated stillness appeared at the Harvey Theater, and a circle seemed to have been rounded into something like eternity. A Cutting-Edge Impresario Leaves BAM: What Was His Best Work? 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

There’s something about the narrative breathlessness of Dickens, and his joy in shaping outsize, eccentric characters detail-by-detail, that makes performers identify with his creative process. ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Page Meets Stage 2010-10-13T22:20:00Z

Gary Kroeger, an older student and performer, remembers seeing the performance. How Julia Louis-Dreyfus quietly became the most successful sitcom star ever 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

He criticized a lack of “forgiveness” for the performers who had “all their work in their entire life being wiped out in a single day, a moment.” Norm Macdonald Compounds Problems With Down Syndrome Comment 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

More than 30 studios shut down temporarily while tests on many other performers who had engaged in filming with the four infected individuals were tested. US porn industry thrown into crisis after actor tests positive for HIV 2010-10-13T18:32:00Z

She prefers the word "storyteller", and winces at the term "performer" – she left a major record company recently after they tried to get her to record her every waking move with a camera. New band of the day: Olivia Sebastianelli (No 1,466) 2013-03-06T16:32:47Z

Most of the audience remain on the floor for the 85-minute running time, while the performers sing and sway atop a series of platforms, which move throughout the show, keeping the audience moving with them. Here Lies Love – review 2013-04-23T13:53:26Z

The musicians use handmade, electrified stringed instruments, bringing the performers — and perhaps the audience — into an ecstatic trance. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

“Judy,” which opens in select theaters Friday, is about an indomitable performer whose deepest traumas have come from the very thing she loves. Zellweger on her empathy and adoration for Judy Garland 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Unlike the Bowl, a magnet for some of the biggest stars of classical and pop music, the Ford has a communitarian agenda that features performers who aren’t household names. Ford Amphitheatre to close next summer for $19.7-million makeover 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

What if he just comes out as a guest performer? The Last Days of Pop Smoke 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

There’s never a shortage of entertainment here, from street performers to big-name nightclub acts. 36 Hours in Provincetown, Mass. 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

He's known for being a musical performer, but Nick is a performer-performer. Nick Jonas "has in him a real mystery": Director on why he's compelling in grief in "The Good Half" 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

These two superlative performers establish beyond doubt, if we needed any reminding, that great talent is ageless and ever-rewarding. Review: James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson Shuffle Emotions in ‘The Gin Game’ 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

The requirement to cast black performers remains in effect for dramatic performances of “Porgy and Bess” around the world, Sargent Aborn, the chief executive officer of Tams-Witmark, which licenses it, wrote in an email. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

In another scene, the performers pantomime a plantation scene behind a backlit screen, their silhouettes a conscious nod to the work of the visual artist Kara Walker. “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

But they didn’t, explaining that the manager was “a high performer” and it was his first offense, something Ms. Fowler later discovered to be untrue. Uber’s Whistle-Blower Is Developing a Movie and Having a Baby 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

Working with dissonance is often a risk, especially for a young performer. DoNormaal’s creative mix of harmony and dissonance 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

“Boys and Girls” is basically four monologues; it’ll be interesting to see these performers and this playwright work with more stage interaction. ‘Boys and Girls’ at 59E59 Theaters 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Before Poitier, the son of Bahamian tomato farmers, no Black actor had a sustained career as a lead performer or could get a film produced based on his own star power. Oscar winner and groundbreaking star Sidney Poitier dies 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

I began to see myself – or a part of myself – not as a performer any longer, but as an adventurer. The boy I used to be: The world would look at me and see Leslie — they don’t know I’m really Peter Pan 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

Messing wanted to be a musical theater performer, a triple threat. Debra Messing Can Age 90 Years Easily. It’s Baking That’s Hard. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Every episode of “Drunk History” is a multi-story booze flight, guided by comedy writers and performers narrating buried, forgotten or overlooked chapters in history performed with hammy brightness by famous actors. "Drunk History" may be the most necessary show on TV now 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

The ultimate hope for these performers, no matter how improbable, would be to sing with their heroes. Country Music Finds a Home Far From Home, in Kenya 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

But Kurzak’s softly focused heroine was the kind of performer who transforms before an audience. Review: ‘Tosca’ Returns, Defined by Its Quiet Moments 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

The stage was not just a physical challenge: it was a metaphor that extended into the relationships between the performers and their experience of the world around them. Hans Was Heiri – review 2013-01-24T17:46:11Z

But she is well served by Paul Meade's production, which has made its way from Dublin to London via Edinburgh, and by her three performers. Review 2010-04-20T00:48:00Z

Cinderella’s stepmother, with flame-orange hair cut in a bob, also changed considerably according to the performer. Mariinsky Ballet in ‘Cinderella,’ Under Alexei Ratmansky 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

But Walken is the funniest performer here; his delivery of the line “I don’t know this guy” at the aforementioned funeral is magnificent. ‘The War With Grandpa’ Review: Robert De Niro Gets Juvenile 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

One of his best traits as an actor is his generosity: He is a great scene-sharer, adept at using his charisma to illuminate the gifts of his fellow performers. Review: In ‘McFarland, USA,’ Kevin Costner Coaches Cross-Country Runners 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

He’s a solid performer who has long benefited from great role selection, even though he rarely adds much to the movie outside of his own celebrity. Leo’s Oscar isn’t overdue: He hasn’t won before because he didn’t earn it 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

And though Rodriguez is still a compelling performer for being 70 years old, some in the crowd likely expected to hear the same vocal range he displayed on his albums. Concert Review: Rodriguez charming but disjointed and flat 2013-04-26T18:49:42Z

“He drives a ballad as intensely and intimately as Sinatra. He can be a lilting, glancing jazz singer. He can be a low-key, searching supper-club performer.” Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z

For me at least, it was a shamanic trance — her ability to enter such a state is one of her gifts as a performer. Sitting With Marina 2010-05-23T21:05:00Z

SAT Chinese performers, Year of the Dragon craft activities for families, information on language classes, 10 a.m. Community calendar 2012-02-02T00:47:04Z

Yes, it’s well past time for producers to be less observant of body shapes, but let’s also give larger performers a legitimate chance to shine based on more than their appearance. Why Does Hollywood Keep Using Fat Suits? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

More than most of Wilson’s plays, “Fences” allows its performers to develop sustained one-on-one relationships. | 'Fences': Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in August Wilson?s Classic 2010-04-27T02:03:00Z

“Nothing about us without us,” says Open Circle Theatre founder and artistic director Suzanne Richard, citing the slogan for performers with disabilities. New staging of ‘Tommy’ to include Russell Harvard and Monica Lijewski 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

But he's one of those performers who, infuriatingly, isn't blazing on screen the way I thought he would at the beginning of the last decade. Why isn't Salt star Chiwetel Ejiofor up there with Russell Crowe? 2010-08-19T12:13:00Z

It samples freely from “all that followed,” all that Mr. Glover inherited from older performers. In Savion Glover’s ‘Shuffle Along,’ Tap’s Reach Has Its Limits 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

Though they are exceptional performers, the principals lacked the fire that the corps de ballet brought to the evening. Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg dances 'Red Giselle' at Segerstrom 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

King was best known as a Brill Building songwriter and not yet as a performer in her own right. You've still got friends in James Taylor and Carole King, who play Seattle May 9 2010-05-06T22:55:00Z

Dionne Warwick said in a statement that she was sad to lose a great performer and "dear friend." Donna Summer, Queen of Disco, dies at 63 2012-05-17T17:08:08Z

Badassery follows Mr. Elba around, and in the age of the incredible shrinking movie star, he’s the rare performer who sells a production based on his own considerable charisma. ‘Luther’ Returns, With Idris Elba Reprising His Role as Tortured Detective 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

Rock shows tend to work better in small rooms than in arenas, as the performers’ proximity forges an intimate, often fevered bond with the audience. Review: ‘Jersey Boys,’ Downsized 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

This contemporary choreographer and performer from Belfast is astonishing — not merely raw, as she is often described, but exactingly articulate. Review: An Astute Choreographer Stumbles (and Rises) to Hope 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

He got expelled from one liberal institution at the age of 16 and persuaded his father to send him to a circus academy, eventually finding work as a street performer and then as an actor. Vincent Cassel: 'You don't have to be your character in real life' 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

Monday after the 31-year-old performer fell near the end of the latest preview performance. Broadway 'Spider-Man' stunt double falls to stage 2010-12-21T14:42:21Z

I want to talk about the sex, and creating that environment on a set where you are writing, directing, and then you are there in those moments with these other performers. Zoe Lister-Jones subverts sex in "Slip": "Through orgasm, she's being transported into a multiverse" 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Her advice to those younger performers was flinty and direct. Maureen O’Hara, smoldering Irish beauty of movie fame, dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z

Bonds’s “Minstrel Man,” about a performer whose humanity is invisible to his audience, stirred a wry, subversive spirit in Austin. Review: A Big Baritone Sound at Play in an Intimate Setting 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Some of the clothing is hosed down as soon as it comes off a performer’s body. 5 Tony-Nominated Broadway Shows, 5 Stagecraft Secrets 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

“Plastic” is Mr. Thomson’s fourth project as a performer at the Modern since 2010, when he took part in Marina Abramovic’s retrospective, “The Artist Is Present.” ‘Plastic,’ at MoMA, Is on the Floor and the Stairs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

You will also find yourself looking down from balconies and landings onto intimate scenes of revelry and disaster, embodied by a lithe and comely parade of performers, who wear their characters’ egos on their sleeves. Review: Specters of the Stage Enchant in ‘Ghost Light’ 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

He has always been a performer of incandescence and originality. Review: In This Solo ‘Christmas Carol,’ the Night Is Never Silent 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

As advocates demanded increased visibility, shows like “Pose” made waves with more truthful depictions written and portrayed by trans performers. Is a Film About a Transgender Dancer Too ‘Dangerous’ to Watch? 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

A set designer turned sculptor, painter, performer, joker and – fatally – lover of fast motorbikes, Pascali's work retains a tireless appetite for reinvention, or as he might have put it, play. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-26T00:07:56Z

On Friday, she also won the competition's world song prize, which is given to the best performer of lieder, which were traditionally written around the 19th Century. Singer's delight at competition win 2013-06-24T06:28:51Z

Both “The Cher Show” and “Summer: The Donna Summer Musical” split diva duty among three performers. From Annie to Tina Turner, and Trained to Go the Distance 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

And that's a strange dynamic for any performer and his audience. Pete Davidson has a puzzling yet undeniable charisma, but is he ready to be a movie star? 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

But above all, Mr. Gilbert said, highlighting Philharmonic members as complete performers “humanizes the player.” Concert Choreography: When Musicians Get Up and Move 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

The challenge of staging this traditional musical for the Festival’s thrust stage he meets head on, using minimal furnishings briskly manipulated by the performers to suggest the dizzying melding of the backstage and onstage worlds. Christopher Plummer in Stratford, Ontario 2010-07-09T04:28:00Z

As much attention as she’s getting for her writing and her feminism and her attitude, her versatility as a performer makes the show. Let's Take a 'Glass Half-Full' Approach to This Year's Emmy Nominations 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

While the list included three films staring a black performer — “Coming to America,” “Trading Places,” “Beverly Hills Cop” — they all starred the same black performer. I can explain #OscarsSoWhite in 2 words: “Annie Hall” 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z

Yet it’s advice that you can feel all the people onstage longing to heed, not just the atomistic characters in this mosaic of urban lives, but also the performers portraying them. Review: ‘New York Animals,’ a Musical About Intersecting Lives 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

At least four performers were injured doing the technically demanding stunts. Spider-Man, Finally: On Scene at Opening Night 2011-06-15T08:00:00Z

Set designer Donald Eastman’s stark white backdrop of a slanted facade of Harlem flats nestled against the dark black tiled flooring, both looming large around a minimalistic concept that dwarfs the performers in the space. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘Blue’ explores the effects of police violence 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

“I asked Ann, ‘Would you ever consider writing a dramatic monologue for a performer?’” The Shed’s 1st Season Welcomes a Concert Series From Steve McQueen and Quincy Jones 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

It doesn't really reflect on who I am as a musician or a performer at all. Stefano Langone tells all in media conference call 2011-04-25T21:10:05Z

Like all really good theatre, Mike Shepherd's production opens up the shared imaginative space that makes it possible for audiences and performers to co-create the fiction taking place on the stage. Fuerzabruta; A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings – review 2013-01-06T00:08:13Z

They rely instead on anti-harassment language in the Equity bylaws, labor contracts, or policies of theater troupes, though most New York performers interviewed said they were unaware of such language. Sex and Violence, Beyond the Script 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

Typecasting is a double-edged sword for any performer. "Baking Show" hosts Mel & Sue show their darker side in the sweet and silly "Hitmen" 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

Granted, the format only really works for performers named Mirren, but in this once case, it worked wonderfully.  Jimmy Fallon finds a fresh way to interview with 'Mirren, Mirren' 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

As a performer, however, he seems difficult to satisfy – quick to stop a song just as it starts or abandoning it before the end. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 2010-06-17T21:15:00Z

He came at things from a direction no other performer had. Film: Adam McKay Directs Cops Under Arrested Adolescence 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z

Ringling Bros. production manager Chantal Stringer says the performer had been preparing for an act that required he climb in and out of a wheel that rotates on an axis. Circus performer plunges 20 ft. at Colorado show 2011-06-12T03:11:13Z

That Williams is a performer of uncommon intelligence and inventiveness will be news to no one. Why Michelle Williams is the real winner of this year's Golden Globes 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z

He's also preparing for a featured role closing the London Olympics opening ceremony on July 27 - just another global audience measuring a billion or more for one of the most popular performers in pop history. Say it ain't so: Mop top Paul McCartney turns 70 2012-06-18T17:19:59Z

Every production I have seen has featured three fortysomething performers sitting around drinking. Can you see the same play too many times? 2012-07-24T13:21:31Z

Its songs do not exist until, with your help, the performers create them before your ears. Review: At ‘Freestyle Love Supreme,’ Attention Must Be Paid. Really. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

The tradition of living nativity scenes started in 1989 and features costumed performers, actors and singers amid light and sound effects. Behold the Christmas story - in a limestone cave 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

The pair met in 2003 at Opaline, a club on Avenue A that is now defunct, through the drag performer Mistress Formika. The Carry Nation, a Downtown D.J. Duo, Drums Up a Hypnotic Beat 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

“The movement vocabulary of the show takes performers and audiences on a journey from a very quiet, tender internal self-reflective experience to the experience of strength,” he said. For Pride Week at the Joyce Theater, a Painful Look Back 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The critically acclaimed performer was lauded by Essence magazine on Wednesday night at the magazine's second-annual "Black Women in Music" pre-Grammy event. Grammy nominee Janelle Monae honored by Essence 2011-02-10T07:52:08Z

The festival, which released the lineup this weekend, features more than 140 shows by 60 groups and performers. Spoleto Festival USA unveils lineup for new season 2012-01-01T05:03:08Z

The organization’s goal is summarized on its own Twitter page: “The Lang Lang International Music Foundation’s mission is to inspire the next generation of music lovers and performers.” Music Review: Lang Lang International Music Foundation Gala at Carnegie 2013-06-04T22:07:16Z

What’s less appealing is the distance between performer and audience that the live delivery of the text, via those chunky headphones, inevitably creates. Theater Review: David Foster Wallace Inspires Piece at Chocolate Factory 2012-03-25T21:57:25Z

In contrast to the recent trend, Harris' Oscars also spotlighted snubbed performers. At the Oscars, it's the night of the 'Birdman' 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Mr. Dong also discovered that a lot of the performers at these “all-Chinese” cabarets were not really Chinese. East Meets West, Over Cocktails 2014-04-11T21:58:20Z

To be a famous face in this formula divides a performer from its central purpose and is antithetical to the show's joke of having "invented news." Leslie Jones blazed brightly on "The Daily Show." But is a star really what its new era needs? 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

Pattinson may have the male model good looks and the serious new movie, but it's Radcliffe, bravely flailing around in a bow tie, who seems the more evolved performer. Edward Cullen is killing Robert Pattinson 2011-04-21T19:22:00Z

The San Francisco Chronicle's Michael Ordona said, "There are some performers you just enjoy watching kick butt," and yes, Reeves is among them. Keanu Reeves is on fire in 'John Wick,' reviews say 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

A pair of performers’ names are picked out of a hat, then they dance the next tune together. Swing Today: ‘Our Dance Is Modern Because We’re Alive Right Now’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

Until now, the theater has been named for John Cort, a onetime vaudeville performer who, by the early 20th century, controlled multiple theaters across the country. Broadway’s Cort Theater Will Have a New Name: James Earl Jones 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Most performers wouldn't dare show fans what they look like first thing in the morning without make-up, or worse, doubled over bawling backstage in costume. Pop singer Katy Perry fearless in "warts and all" film portrayal 2012-07-02T19:56:34Z

He wondered what would happen if the man were to become the performer. Circle of life: Japan's homeless banish despair through dance 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

As a performer, Moore can go big, and a terrible yowl here pierces the heart. ‘Gloria Bell’ Review: Love Is in the Air for a Transcendent Julianne Moore 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

I remember Simpson telling me in 2002 that "at regular nights in London, Manchester, Birmingham, it's still unusual to see a black performer on the bill". Meet black comedy's trailblazers 2010-04-13T20:35:00Z

The performers don’t so much act as manifest conditions of being, like figures in a religious painting. ‘A Hidden Life’ Review: Refusing Hitler, Embracing Beauty 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

They were wild, but also in a way they were very traditional, they were performers who were living the circus life, they lived as a communal group. Archaos returns as exhibition celebrates revolutionary chainsaw-wielding circus 2010-08-23T18:09:00Z

If all goes according to plan, audience members won’t see blood spurt from the performers in “Tyson vs. Ali,” a show that imagines perhaps the greatest boxing match that never was. January Stages: In Your Seat but on Your Toes 2014-01-02T23:10:17Z

When he began in Paris, there were no comedy clubs, and performers produced their own showcases, which tended toward cabaret, not straight stand-up. Gad Elmaleh: Talking Funny in French and English 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Being interrogated by Howard Stern was presumably no challenge for a performer who had learned the value of a thick skin early in his career. Steve Rossi, Straight Man of Comedy Duo Allen and Rossi, Dies at 82 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Did you talk about specific performers with Carter, or have talk Carter and fill in the anecdotes? "Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President": A loving relationship to music that "cuts through politics" 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

The "performer as curator" project aims to bridge the gap between performing and visual art. Alison Goldfrapp exhibition to open 2013-09-06T12:56:21Z

“Certainly, the performers are hopeful that this transition will go with dignity for Jimmy,” David Frye, the chairman of the Met’s chorus committee, said. Amid Tension, Met and James Levine Mull Last Bow 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

A pop music diva wins an Oscar for her big-screen breakthrough as a performer who overcomes doubts about her looks to become a superstar. Oscar Rewind: Pop Star Plays a Performer and Wins? It’s Happened Before 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

According to the director, their exchanges left the performer engrossed in deep soul-searching. Was there anything real about Elvis Presley? 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z

Nazis and Jews are represented by puppets, moved around and filmed by three performers, the results being projected live onto the back wall of the stage. Kamp: 'Performing this work does get to you' 2013-03-15T06:54:57Z

Around this time, he met two performers whose look and sound would have a profound impact on his own: Billy Wright and S.Q. Little Richard, Flamboyant Wild Man of Rock ’n’ Roll, Dies at 87 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

Newcomer Jacob Tremplay, playing her son, is arguably the lead of the film, and astonishes with a remarkably assured turn for such a young performer. Academy awards 2016 race comes into focus at Telluride 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

I already have ideas about performers I want to invite next year, and some pieces I want to ask people to write. A Labor Day Thank You for the Arts 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

After two years in the Navy, he became a performer. Bill Saluga, a Memorable Comedic Wiseguy, Is Dead at 85 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

A stalwart performer with an enviable musical pedigree and resume, Russell, 56, is both an emerging star and seasoned veteran. Eclectic bunch to bring Grateful Dead's music back to life 2012-03-02T23:25:04Z

Slam poetry combines aspects of a live reading, a rap battle and stand-up comedy, as performers try to win over the audience with wit, braggadocio and, occasionally, nuance. Maggie Estep, Slam Poetry Performer, Dies at 50 2014-02-13T01:06:41Z

The Comedy Store was half-asleep and half-empty that night, Williams was the last performer on the bill, and did he wake the place up. Robin Williams' rise no surprise to a writer dazzled by unknown comic 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

It returns for a third straight year and will highlight her fashion line’s newest assortment of styles featuring an all-star lineup of models, actors and performers. Rihanna takes time with album while unveiling lingerie line 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Holmes, host of the podcast “You Made It Weird,” is a bubbly performer with a sense for silly absurdity. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

In “Passing Strange,” Stew narrated a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale and led the onstage band as an ensemble of performers enacted the story in front of him. What’s New for Stew? A Blues Fable Told in Story and Song 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Other economically sensitive sectors, including energy, materials and industrials, also were strong performers for the day. Dow closes up almost 500 points 2011-11-30T22:11:03Z

Awards are also given for outstanding performers, visual design, music composition or sound design and revivals. Bessies Dance Prize Nominees Announced; Choreographers Honored 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

For decades, record companies and bandleaders flocked there to hire mambo and salsa performers, who congregated in the store, according to the National Park Service, which lists it on the National Register of Historic Places. Trip Tips: Latin Americans infuse New York with Hispanic culture 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

This sliver of a dance opens on a darkened stage as two performers, standing side by side, look as if they’re about to divulge a secret. Dance Review: Doug Varone Dancers and a George Antheil Score at the Joyce 2012-10-10T21:08:34Z

Beyond his husky, unique voice, the artist, with his gyrating hips and hooded eyes, seemed to embody desire more than any other popular male performer of his time. What the Rise and Fall of Elvis Mean to America 40 Years After His Death 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Would a modifier like “death-defying” mean less when everyone in the tent — performers, spectators — had lived through a global pandemic? Review: At the Big Apple Circus, It’s a Family Affair 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

A trio of performers, including Mr. Bernal, will perform “Remember Me” from the animated film “Coco.” The 2018 Oscars Musical Performers Include Mary J. Blige and Common 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

She said that she was “disappointed” that, for the second year in a row, the Oscar nominations, announced last week, failed to include any performers of color. Academy President 'Heartbroken' Over Lack of Oscars Diversity 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

At the end, snow fell from above and, in Bolshoi tradition, the audience threw 200 roses at the performers’ feet. ArtsBeat: Ballet Meets Colbert in Unusual Pas de Deux 2011-12-08T15:19:12Z

She’s one of the most fearless, anarchic performers in “Saturday Night Live” history and the open-hearted, ambitious kook at the center of Parks & Recreation. The radical prickliness of “Yes Please”: Amy Poehler isn’t scared of being “unlikable” 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

That might not provide much solace to performers such as Dale, who doesn’t relish getting behind the wheel every few months to drive to his next gig. When the hits (to musicians’ health) just keep on coming 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Most performers, though, have concluded, as Jason Thorpe does in the current London production, that it's funnier without the knickers. 'Now cross the Andes.' In praise of the impossible stage direction 2012-06-12T11:56:16Z

These are the sorts of performances, and performers, the Grammys crave: appearing young but aiming to embody old-fashioned values of musicianship. At the Grammys, the Young Succeed Most When They Seem Old 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

After all, there were no other performers, unless you count the video artist Luke Dubois, who created expressive projections, live, for some of the pieces. Review: Todd Reynolds, Live and Recorded, at the Jewish Museum 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

You and the casting director Allison Jones have been responsible for helping a lot of previously lesser-known performers reach bigger audiences. With ‘Welcome to Flatch,’ Paul Feig Comes Home 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

So the performers, left with only the songs, acted unevenly, often with strain. The Trouble With Bernstein’s Broadway in the Concert Hall 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Together, the performer and her director reveal the arc of a life through Fahrije’s gestures and in the hard lines of her jaw, in her unsmiling lips and in her quickly lowered gaze. ‘Hive’ Review: In the Aftermath of War, a Survivor Finds Herself 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

But the performer survives only in film clips and photographs. 3 living links to Merce Cunningham reminisce 2011-10-20T18:09:12Z

Hearing his sonorous voice, the producers quickly conscripted him as a performer. Gary Owens, Announcer on ‘Laugh-In,’ Dies at 80 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

"By putting on trousers, these women are allowed to behave in a way that otherwise they wouldn't have been able to," says Walker, who is fascinated by the daring of the performers. Ladies as gents 2010-05-13T21:15:00Z

"When I hear it with the performers and with the show I'm just as enthusiastic as I was the first time I saw the show," she said. Choreographer recreates 'Oklahoma!' at age 91 2013-05-02T15:19:10Z

Because what these performers do is make you see the familiar in new ways. Theater Talkback: Just When You Think You Know Somebody . . . 2010-09-01T21:24:00Z

Part of it came from Jay’s resolve to keep alive the memory of the curious and astounding performers of the past. The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Unlike at most comedy nights, however, the performers are given much more time than usual: 20-minute sets. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

As a stage performer, Ms. Wilson is gregarious and forthright: a natural entertainer. Review: Rita Wilson’s Peaceful Easy Feeling 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Everyone is encouraged to dress casually, even the performers. Chamber music and cheeseburgers at Olympic Music Festival 2011-07-01T20:23:09Z

We hadn't worked with human performers in a long time. 'Mormon' is more than just easy laughs 2011-06-03T15:46:00Z

His father was the director of the local opera house and a former performer who later turned his hand to calligraphy. Shen Wei Revives ‘Map,’ a Work from 2005 2014-04-11T21:47:13Z

In a way, one could see the film as both a potential tribute to his remarkable and decades-long career doing real, often dangerous stunt work and a consideration of his sunset years as a performer. ‘Ride On’ Review: Jackie Chan, Back on the Horse 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z

We chatted with a friendly lawyer from Toronto and talked trash about one of the jokes when we saw an avatar of a performer from the show walk nearby and immediately changed the subject. I Miss Being Part of an Audience 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Adapting a white voice as a black performer, then, is sometimes a deliberate attempt to turn the gaze back on white culture. When Black Performers Use Their ‘White Voice’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

At this show, which celebrates Thanksgiving and the approaching holidays, the young performers will consider traditions and a few things they really aren’t grateful for, like smelly subways and Chipmunk movies. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Once the show started, however, patrons looking for exotic entertainment found young, mostly Chinese-American performers dancing the Charleston and the shim sham. East Meets West, Over Cocktails 2014-04-11T21:58:20Z

She came to share an apartment with Lander, who had also been a performer and appeared in several TV shows in the 1970s and ’80s. The Family of a Former Supreme Battles for Control of Her Life 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

Don't worry if you don't recognize the names of the performers. Capitol Hill Block Party 2012: break outs and sure things 2012-07-19T14:01:12Z

Previously announced performer Taylor Swift will receive the artist of the decade award at the AMAs, where she is nominated for five honors. Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Dua Lipa, Cabello to perform at AMAs 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Between stunt performers there is, he says, a healthy sense of one-upmanship. Stunt star turned Extraction director Sam Hargrave: 'Charlize Theron is the bravest actor I know' 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

The performers, whose graceful maneuvers evoke a human kaleidoscope, also fly across the stage like trapeze artists, except there’s no trapeze. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z

Coachella is the only music festival where you might get a chance to see Rihanna, not a scheduled performer, smoke a blunt while riding atop her security guard’s shoulders. The Appeal of the Coachella Way of Life 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

This year out in Spain we had 65 stunt performers, which is a massive call. How 'Game of Thrones' Sets Actors on Fire Without Killing Them 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

Among the other performers planned are Storm Gardner, Davell Crawford, the Abyssinian church choir and Mr. Scott’s band, the Jazz Expressions. Dr. John and Others to Pay Tribute at Jimmy Scott Memorial 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

These performers are having a quintessential New York moment. A critic's take: Why 'Hamilton's' Tony Award record ushers in a new era for theater 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

He’s hardly the only performer for whom “The Wiz” is personal. ‘The Wiz,’ With Added Street Cred, Heads for TV and Broadway 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Coulter is normally a canny performer, and she often seems to court, and even to revel in, a degree of abuse from her detractors. Please Kill the Celebrity Roast 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

It’s someone who is outwardly saying “I am a performer.” Some Like It Not: Are Men in Dresses Still Funny? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

And that combination of reality and fiction also aided them both as performers and directors. LAFF 2014: Jess Weixler, Jennifer Prediger make their 'Trouble Dolls' 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

Wood's talents are truly prodigious, as both a performer and a writer. Victoria Wood: 'I feel at the BBC I'm not trusted, not valued, not needed' 2010-09-27T06:59:00Z

A live D.J. pumps up the crowd while her performers — rightly called Action Heroes — embody an appealing mix of athletes, cheerleaders and artists. Elizabeth Streb’s Choreography, With Action Heroes 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Last year, Michael Douglas noted a disparity in technique between the performers of the two countries. Michael Sheen, Passengers and why Hollywood's hottest leads need a quirky Brit 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

In some instances, it is possible for performers who are not members of Equity to perform on Broadway. Patti LuPone Says She Resigned From Stage Actors’ Union 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

This interview has been edited for length and clarity — but not that much, because Rollins is a natural performer who never loses the thread. Henry Rollins calls U.S. men "the dumbest creatures" & Trump "wrongest possible" leader for pandemic 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

She also found some fulfillment that refuge of the aging performer, doing cartoon voiceovers for movie and television. Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher Had an Unbreakable Bond 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Taken too often as mere provocation, “4’33” ” presents a radical rethinking of the relationships among performer, composer, material, listener and environment. Music Review: ‘Peckinpah Trios’ Continues Music for Contemplation Series 2014-04-08T20:04:25Z

Acrid clouds drift across the stage, while the smoke of incense and the crematory, and the movements and speech of the performers, have a stylized symmetry seldom found in everyday life. Review: ‘Nirbhaya,’ a Lamentation and a Rallying Cry for Indian Women 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

After all, The Wiz, coming as it did at the end of a year tinged by racially-tinged violence, made a case for itself with black performers exulting in and celebrating one another’s excellence. NBC's 'Hairspray' Hit All the Expected Notes, to Diminished Effect 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

At a recent rehearsal, the performers — five men, five women — gripped slots in the cube to break the columns apart before pushing, pulling and twirling them in what occasionally resembled the teacup ride at Disneyland. Machines Of Movement, With Bruises 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z

Viewers arrayed by the Hudson near Dia:Beacon will see projected images — though not necessarily representative ones — of the performers and props that their counterparts are watching about 60 miles to the south. Two Points of View, Miles Apart 2011-04-14T22:15:13Z

Other upcoming PBS shows announced Tuesday include "Broadway or Bust," a documentary about top high school musical performers, and "American Masters" films on Carl Sandburg and David Geffen. PBS fall schedule offers U.K. hits, US history 2012-05-15T18:58:08Z

See more of Entertainment’s top stories on Facebook >> Director Dave Solomon keeps the tone low-key yet consistently dynamic, while his gifted young performers struggle — and often succeed — in making sense of their murky motivations. Making love, not war: 'The Dodgers' relives the drama of the Vietnam draft 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

They are part of the troupe of 24 Mongolian performers in the show, including acrobats, weight lifters and a throat singer. Ringling Circus Camels, One Hump or Two, Are Singular Attractions 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

At each show the game performer and the droll playwright forge a relationship of sorts, navigating barriers of language and life experience before a live audience. Please Welcome Tracy Letts to the Stage. Now, Say Goodbye. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

For him, "rock 'n' roll may be more than anything a continuum of associations, a drama of direct and spectral connections between songs and performers." Into the ether with Greil Marcus' ' History of Rock 'n' Roll' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

The performers labor through those emotional spotlights; Taylor and Lane are amiable but flat, and Trabolsi and Darrow are suitably obnoxious but wholly unsurprising. ‘Block Association’ Review: Yes, in Your Backyard 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

Among them: a requirement that a second person ensure the harnesses used by performers have been put on properly. With new precautions after accident, 'Spider-Man' swings back onto Broadway and lands smoothly 2010-12-24T10:50:00Z

But Tommy is a consummate performer, and he turned out and turned it up for his dapper routine and lived up to the “Tommy the Great” moniker. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Halloween night tricks and treats 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

When the three performers danced, the dynamics were sketchy, throwaway, stunted, as if they were doing the blah-blah-blah version of something they’d do properly later on. Dance Review: ?Smithsoniansmith,? in Denim, on Lower East Side 2010-07-30T21:20:00Z

They greeted the performers, especially a chirpy but mischievous Smith, as best friends. 2010-01-14T14:28:00Z

On land there was rain-forest hiking and ziplining — though none of us, fans or performers, were quite prepared for the intimacies that demanded. The Stage Door at Sea: A Broadway Star on Her First Fan Cruise 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

The songs are punctuated by interviews with admirers who have invested in the merchandise the series promotes and who cannot distinguish between the performers and the roles they play. Glee: The 3D Concert Movie ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:29Z

But they were more than performers; they were also activists who fought for civil rights, particularly for blacks. Daughter: Actress Ruby Dee dead at 91 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

After a show ends, the performers weave their way through the crowd, carrying on conversations with the children while in character. Marionettes at Play 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

You Me We festival of family fun: Kent youth and teen performers, art activities, sports competitions, bounce houses, games, raffles, food available, 6-9:30 p.m. Weekend Preview: family-fun fest, record and CD show 2012-02-22T22:48:10Z

That beguiling mix of vulnerability and bravado is Pope’s primary asset as a performer. Jeremy Pope Is Telling Himself ‘Yes’ 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

Then he became a more serious student of the clarinet, which led him to a career as a music teacher and a performer. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

He made films about performers he admired and some he came to enjoy, like Depeche Mode, whose dedicated fans warmed him to their music. Oscar-winning documentary maker D.A. Pennebaker dies at 94 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

Hotel staff at the Hard Rock Hotel in Chicago, where Berry was staying, also told Reuters they saw the performer on Sunday morning and that he looked good. Rock great Chuck Berry falls ill at New Year's show 2011-01-02T21:05:11Z

In the weeks and months leading up to the inauguration of Donald Trump, many of the president-elect’s most outspoken opponents have been artists, performers, writers, designers and entertainers. Artists Mobilize in the Face of Donald Trump's Presidency 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Fielding’s Jones is lucky to be played by a performer as skilled and subtle as Zellweger, thinks Beeban Kidron, who directed the second film in the series, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason. Renée Zellweger: there is so much more to her than Bridget Jones | Observer profile 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

In  a week of sloppy pasos and tortured tangos, it’s nice to see dance as it was meant to be done: By gorgeous, talented performers with genre appropriate music. Dancing with the Stars Watch, Rock Week Results 2012-04-11T12:33:48Z

“His jumps are so high, and his turns are so clean,” said Mr. Bergasse, who likes his performers to have a strong ballet foundation. David Alvarez on ‘Billy Elliot,’ the Army, and ‘On the Town’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Banks’s affection for the performers far surpasses the attention that she, as director, devotes to the characters they play. “Pitch Perfect 2,” and Two Other Movies About Money 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The day continues with a stadium show of tennis matches and live music — the performers include Hunter Hayes, Shawn Mendes and the Vamps — from 1 to 3 p.m. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 22-28 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

Carmignac sent out mystery invitations giving the date and location of what it called "the biggest secret event of the year" without identifying the performer. Rolling Stones play $20 surprise gig in Paris 2012-10-25T22:22:07Z

Let’s hope it wasn’t anything serious, because no further information was forthcoming from the performers or promoters. Concert review: Mary J. Blige and D'Angelo at the United Center 2012-09-14T07:07:00Z

The television star first became famous as a performer on the channel’s Saturday Night Live program. Tina Fey Moves New Show to Netflix 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

He was so colorful and biting in his criticism that it felt like a bracing slap in the face of the performers, viewers and social convention. Simon Cowell celebrated on `American Idol' finale 2010-05-27T08:56:00Z

Much as Lang valued being part of Tharp's creative process, the performer's life proved to have diminishing rewards. Choreographer Jessica Lang steps out with her own dance troupe 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z

And in April, several vegan-friendly performers gathered at the Schomburg Center in Harlem to formally introduce health and wellness as “the 10th element of hip-hop.” Black Vegans Step Out, for Their Health and Other Causes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

Some might even discover their inner performer, like the guys asked to play the stripper in The Boy With Tape's show. Go on, make an interactive idiot of yourself 2011-08-18T11:56:31Z

Yet the character will be a flamboyant, strutting performer, he said, rather than a somber representation of sorrow. Will ‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ Take Flight on the Stage? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Local talent is well represented, but performers hail from as far afield as Argentina, Australia, Europe and all across the U.S. A guide to this year’s ‘Moisture’ festivity 2013-03-15T18:55:54Z

In truth, it was never likely that a 164-minute film, which didn't benefit from the price premium of 3D tickets, would ever reach the stratosphere of the top Harry Potter performer. The Dark Knight Rises bats Spider-Man away at the UK box office 2012-07-24T15:33:17Z

Like contemporaries Little Richard and Chuck Berry, Domino was a black performer whose music crossed over to white audiences and helped shape early rock. Fats Domino, rock 'n' roll pioneer, dead at 89 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

The Times asked performers, producers and directors to talk about the perils and pleasures of acting under the sky. Surprises at the Delacorte Theater and Other Outdoor Spaces 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

Being a woman, wife and mother, as well as a performer. Petula Clark, singer – portrait of the artist 2013-01-29T16:00:01Z

Ms. Saunders is a magnetic live performer who stood out on Oxygen’s short-lived reality show about female stand-ups, “Funny Girls,” and she can do a lot with a little. 4 Comedy Specials to Watch: Seasoned Stand-Ups Making Debuts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

But that is only possible if gatekeepers and viewers can give the same kind of opportunities and attention to older performers that is bestowed on their younger counterparts. Rethinking celebrity and aging with "The Last Movie Stars" and Joni Mitchell at Newport Folk Fest 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

Many performers survive by touring, so they’re hoping that their work will tempt those visiting presenters. Theater Festivals Include Under the Radar and American Realness 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

It uses dance-moves as constricted and elaborate as calligraphy to create complex connections between the performers. zoe ǀ juniper’s ‘BeginAgain’ mixes movement, stage magic 2014-03-28T15:50:49Z

He took a fly-on-the-wall approach, shooting performers applying makeup in the bathroom, wigs in hand, and the book was nominated for an award at the prestigious Fotobook Festival in Kassel, Germany. Category Is … Filmmaker Realness 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

A razzle-dazzle sampler piece based on excerpts from Mr. Naharin’s previous dances, it features an extended social-dance romp between the performers and the audience members they select on the spot. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey?s Ohad Naharin Premiere at City Center - Review 2011-12-11T22:45:45Z

When she gets to do something else, Winslet reminds us of what a capable performer she is. Review: Kate Winslet Returns to HBO, Now as a Small-Town Cop 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z

In choreographing the solos, Mr. Ferver thought about creating a “psychic space” for his performers that incorporated who they were as children and who they are now. Who Made Them Feel Mighty Real? 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

The seven performers ​she chose​ were so eager to be associated with Ms. Dunham that they apparently did not mind that the gig was unpaid. Lena Dunham's About-Face: She'll Share the Wealth With Tour Acts 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Handel's operas were written for virtuoso performers, and students attempt them at their peril. Rodelinda ? review 2011-03-15T18:23:42Z

A performer playing the part of a Greek priestess used the sun’s rays and a mirror to light a torch during a dress rehearsal in Olympia, site of the Games in ancient times. Olympic flame to begin its journey to Rio 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

Ross kept the show on pace, and the audience responded to each performer with generous laughs and applause. Big comedy names get big laughs at Oddball Festival | Review 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

She said some performers “are even more courageous nowadays, if you think of Lady Gaga, for example.” Feel old yet? 40 years since ABBA’s ‘Waterloo’ 2014-04-08T18:51:49Z

Carmichael is an incredibly poised, even chilly performer, comfortable in silences, seemingly unflappable. Jerrod Carmichael Comes Out in a Riveting Special That’s About So Much More 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z

He could charm with the best of them, but unlike many performers, he didn’t come off as desperate for your approval. Richard Belzer Had a Ball With the Relationship Between Comic and Crowd 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

It seems to me that TV comedy studio recordings favour dead-eyed autocue gobbling monologists, indifferent to the reality of the room, and penalise proper live performers who are the best really. Farewell, BBC TV Centre. You were Britain's very own Disneyland 2013-03-31T00:05:37Z

Bach prospers brilliantly through this combination of performer and instrument. An All-but-Extinct Piano Plays Once More 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

“He radiated love to people and to the music, and it was unmistakable. That’s why he was so loved as a performer, because of the generosity of his music making.” André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

Audience members in those seats put their feet on the same surface the performers do, just like Jack Nicholson at a Lakers game. Frank Gehry's jewel-box new concert hall in the heart of Berlin 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

For many performers working in Southern California, getting one's own Star Waggon is as an indication that one has arrived. Singer Sturgill Simpson making noise as he straddles the country line 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

But dismissing the success of top performers as a result of culture alone is a “grave mistake”, writes Ms Crehan. Learning from the world’s swottiest countries 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Each of these performers would grow out of the gospel world and into soul, blues and pop music, a transition Pops Staples would long resist. Books of The Times: ‘I’ll Take You There,’ by Greg Kot 2014-02-20T13:00:01Z

As with the best performers, there is nothing to add to what Engel did up there. ‪The Year in Theatre and Farewell to a Friend 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z

It was Laura Dern, longtime performer in David Lynch’s work who here plays the hitherto unseen FBI woman to whom agent Cooper has been dictating his reports all these years. Twin Peaks recap: episode six – we've waited over 25 years for this moment 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

An unexpected consequence of the digital shift is that it has brought performers closer to historical sources, including composer manuscripts. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The burnished table remains bare, the performers’ insatiable mouths empty, and wretchedly so. Theater Review: ‘Feast’ Revisits Babylon, With Interactive Whoopee Cushions 2014-01-14T23:03:33Z

After the performers cross the stage as a pack, leaning deeply forward as soon as they reach its edges, they break apart, executing brisk triplet steps. Review: Seán Curran Company in a Cross-Cultural Exchange 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

There are many unanswerable questions every performer may ask themselves, and some that are particularly uncomfortable for Black artists: Was it racism? LaChanze, a Tony Nominee, Is Casting Herself in New Roles 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

Saying nothing, the performers just sat quietly, thumbing through the magazines, occasionally picking up and putting down some item from the table, which of course made sounds that became part of the piece. Music Review: John Cage Centennials at Symphony Space and the Stone 2012-09-06T22:01:20Z

Also named: Chance the Rapper, a young Chicago performer in his image; 2 Chainz, the Atlanta veteran; and Jaden Smith, the actor and musician. For a Little While, the MTV Video Music Awards Were Kanye West’s Show 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z

Storytelling also returns there each summer, as the city’s Parks and Recreation Department, the Central Park Conservancy and the Hans Christian Andersen Storytelling Center bring narrative performers to Andersen’s statue every Saturday through Sept. 26. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 21-27 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z

He admitted he was no great shakes as a dramatic performer — except a few times on the concert stage. Eddie Fisher: The Songs, the Sins, the Scandal 2010-09-24T22:35:00Z

A genre-bender and a prophetic force in music since the late 1960s, Peacock is one of the most riveting — though overlooked — vocal performers in jazz. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

The play takes the form of a series of linked fragments, some chilling, some uplifting, that tell the story of Ngwabeni's journey from football-loving tomboy to self-assured performer and gay activist. Ncasmisa! Kiss the Women calls shame on South Africa 2010-09-26T21:00:00Z

One performer, who moonlights as a sex educator, gives a brief tutorial on how to use different types of whips. Another JonBenét Ramsey movie? Yes, but this one is different. 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Sure, these performers started their careers a couple of rungs up the ladder. Review: At the Big Apple Circus, It’s a Family Affair 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

FRI-SUN Scottish pipe bands, Highland dancers, traditional Scottish athletic events, food and craft vendors, Scottish animals, clan tents, Celtic performers; 5:30-11 p.m. Community calendar 2012-07-25T17:48:06Z

The filing adds that “bathrobes are commonly worn by musical performers backstage in the theater, and there was nothing inappropriate or improper about Levine wearing one.” Met Opera Accuses James Levine of Decades of Sexual Misconduct 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

In paving the way for video innovation, he has produced challenging art works based on medical imaging technologies of the human body and animal behavior as well as scripted moving scenarios filmed with performers. My Bill Viola Video Marathon 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

When a performer dressed as the waitress Norma Jennings took off her clothes, she was wearing stickies with dangling cherries; her dance included splashing herself with coffee and rubbing her fingers in pie. Coffee, pie and nudity: “Twin Peaks” comes to life in New York 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Leaving off the race of the performers, Smith let the music speak for itself while also presenting a vision of America that might not be cleaved solely by skin color. The other side of America’s iconic folk anthology is entrancing — but also plenty disturbing 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

The judges then compete among themselves to see who will slam the buzzer first on a good prospect, and then they compete again by wooing a winning performer to their teams. The TV Watch: ‘American Idol,’ at 13, Is Trying to Stay Relevant 2014-01-29T22:14:53Z

Judges said Winkleman, who took a full-time role on Strictly Come Dancing when Sir Bruce Forsyth stepped down, was "a genuinely individual performer". Winkleman honoured for Strictly debut 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

That free-form, interactive piece saw visitors swept up in impromptu dances, races and conversations by choreographed performers. 'Giant wings' fill Tate Turbine Hall 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mantello is an actor whisperer, taking each aside to give specific, intimate and discreet notes, performer to performer. Director Joe Mantello, Broadway’s Invisible Wizard 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

This year's headliners include Arctic Monkeys and The Rolling Stones, who join more than 2,000 other performers at the sprawling, five-day event. Glastonbury preview: Part one 2013-06-25T06:12:44Z

This is true even though both genres draw on the same performers: Gerard Butler stars in both 300 and Beowulf & Grendel; Anthony Hopkins surfaces in both Alexander and Beowulf. Valhalla Rising v Clash of the Titans: there will be blood 2010-03-18T22:05:00Z

“I prefer dancing, or even just let me watch the performer on stage. When they’re doing lyrics, absolutely: interpret. But I know some deaf people like those aspects. They want to know what’s happening instrumentally.” New staging of ‘Tommy’ to include Russell Harvard and Monica Lijewski 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

The performers showcased are somewhat less well known than those four founders, and the result is what you get at any sketch comedy show: some hilarious bits, some flat ones. NBC’s Seeso Looks to Be Must-See TV 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The performers commissioned portraits of themselves seeming to sever heads and coax witches out of caldrons. Antiques: Black and Jewish Music, Kentucky Cabinets, Magician Posters 2012-12-06T22:01:49Z

Many of the campaigns are aimed at performers scheduled to play at the theme park. The Documentary Blackfish Is Still Creating Waves at SeaWorld 2013-12-11T10:45:01Z

Over 40 performers deliver a nonstop day of dancing across five stages at this 14th annual, electronic dance music-inclined shindig. Summer Stages 2012-05-17T19:59:09Z

Appearing on Sullivan’s show boosted the careers of many performers, from rock ‘n’ roll bands to country stars and Motown groups. Large trove of history-making 'Ed Sullivan Show' archives to stream online 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

By the middle 1960s, festivals had become as important as nightclubs and concert halls on the itinerary of virtually every major jazz performer, and Mr. Wein had come to dominate the festival landscape. George Wein, Jazz Festival Trailblazer, Is Dead at 95 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

These young performers are up to the task. Review: With ‘Stranger Things,’ Netflix Delivers an Eerie Nostalgia Fix 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

In “On the Nature of Things,” a New York premiere created by company leaders in collaboration with the dancers, three performers share a circular pedestal just over three feet in diameter. Pilobolus Packs a Lot Into 2 Hours at the Joyce Theater 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Horne, who died Sunday at 92, was one of the first black performers hired to sing with Charlie Barnet's white orchestra in the early 1940s, playing the Copacabana nightclub in New York City. Hundreds mourn jazz singer Lena Horne in NYC 2010-05-14T19:46:00Z

Projections designed by Robbie Hayes show images of famous performers — shots of Sammy Davis Jr. as a toddler in vaudeville; jazz greats; 1960s crossover stars. In MetroStage’s ‘Shake Loose,’ nothing’s left unsung 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

A virtual situation doesn’t necessarily appeal to me as a live performer and a stand-up. Cedric the Entertainer Wants to Make the Emmys More Accessible 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

The movie wound up being a tepid box-office performer as well. 'Let's be Cops' and the accidental timeliness problem 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

These works deliver a lot of one thing, with variation perhaps more perceptible to the performers than the audience. Review: A Choreographer Who Excavates Misalignment 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

The circus was open, the audience were here, and the performers were ready. Your stories: Circus Horse - Part 1 by HorseLover3000 2013-06-21T11:00:00Z

There are upsides to being a performer in Washington, of course. After quitting his day job, comic has a new role: Building a comedy scene 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Much painstaking rehearsal and synchronization of cues, for the tech crew as well as the performers, has gone into “Everybody.” Review: In ‘Everybody,’ Mortality Loves Company 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the true performers — the late night comedians — offered a different form of public response, one that felt considerably more sincere than those in the news media. One more lesson from Charlottesville: Our comedians are more ethical than our president 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

As much as there’s an ongoing rat-a-tat-tat competition between the two characters, there’s a sweetness to their relationship, which one can imagine is as true of the performers as it is the characters. My streaming gem: why you should watch Road to Bali 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

After leaving boarding school in England, and after a stint in New York City in the early 1980s, an undeterred Brook experienced a taste of her mother’s suffering as an out-of-work performer. Stepping Out of Her Family’s Shadow, and Laying Bare Family History 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

Because so many of their friends work in the entertainment industry, their guests included eight fire performers and a certified pyrotechnic. Adrenaline junkie brides light wedding dresses on fire after walking down the aisle 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Rather than hiring a stunt performer as well as a star, studios would rather save the cash and hire an actor with the guts to take the plunge. The silent-era film stars who risked life and limb doing their own film stunts 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

They start by hearing what seems at first to be an experimental rock band rehearsal — only to discover the true nature of the flying performers. On the Wings of an Unusual Exhibition 2010-03-16T11:00:00Z

That will give the performers a certain freedom. Music: Under Peskanov, Bargemusic Keeps Evolving 2010-05-20T22:17:00Z

"Mark is a good performer, the thing sounds slick and they are picking good stuff from around the country to talk about," said one corporation source. Mark Forrest Show does little to calm fears over BBC local radio cuts 2013-01-29T07:21:13Z

Mr. Sledge’s style was influenced as much by country music as it was by gospel and rhythm and blues, and he sometimes covered songs popularized by country performers such as Charlie Rich and Charlie Pride. Percy Sledge, soul balladeer of ‘When a Man Loves a Woman,’ dies at 74 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

All it lacks is being “live” — for the magic in an illusionist’s stage show depends on the audience existing in real time with the performer. Now You See Me: The Customer Is Always Fooled 2013-05-30T22:11:24Z

What: Parade of nations, performers, food, arts and crafts. Family visits to Cuba inspired girl to become a poet 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

The cool thing about Strictly Seattle," says Velocity executive director Kara O'Toole, "is it's this great bridge between your pre-professional life and your professional life as a performer. 'Amplify! ... Activate! ... Ignite!' ? Strictly Seattle shows happen this weekend 2010-07-29T19:11:00Z

Terry Jones is an underrated, understated performer, while Terry Gilliam - the sole American in the group - is a master of grotesques. Dead parrots and lumberjacks please Python fans 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

"I accept that comedy clubs are places where performers push boundaries and try to generate outrage," the judge said. TV executives stifling new comedy, says veteran producer 2013-06-25T13:38:37Z

I am not sure I will look at a performer in the same way again. "Body Parts" examines the labor of movie nudity – the good, the bad and the merkins 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z

At the same time, Cobb’s earnest, reasoned script slashes so precisely that you may not see Shakespeare — and a lot of roles played by black performers — quite the same way for a while. Review | After ‘American Moor,’ you may not see Shakespeare — and a lot of roles played by black actors — quite the same way 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

The potentially momentum-pushing event of one theater company member’s winning a million francs in a lottery dissipates when another performer makes off with the cash in the same scene. Review: Jacques Rivette’s 1971 Film, ‘Out 1: Noli Me Tangere’ 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

“I think appearance is important if you are a live performer,” he said. On the Runway Blog: In Milan, Never Dull 2012-01-16T13:54:53Z

Neither opening night nor Monday was an ideal rendition, but if you could pick and choose performers from each, it might be possible to come up with something memorable. ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ Returns to the Met 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

On Saturday nights between April’s Folk Festival and October’s BeanFest, performers assemble on a stage outside the courthouse. Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World

The singer Ryan O’Shaughnessy, representing Ireland, sang a sentimental breakup ballad, “Together,” which featured two male performers dancing and holding hands. China Is Banned From Airing Eurovision After Censoring Performance With Gay Theme 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

The host of the Fox show is the everyman performer Nick Cannon, whose dazed emceeing is complemented by his gigantic ruby slippers, crimson pin-striped suit, and pretty pink boutonniere. Our Masked Singers, Ourselves 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

At this show, which celebrates Thanksgiving and the approaching holiday season, the young performers will consider traditions and a few things they really aren’t grateful for, like interminable family dinners and overbearing relatives. Spare Times for Children Listings for Nov. 18-24 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

How do you get that quiet dignity and pride in being Black men who are protecting their families and communities out of the performers? "Passion and anger without a strategy is called frustration": Bill Duke on positive systemic change 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z

I always wonder for non-white performers whether that's one of those things you accept as a part of getting out there and achieving fame. Joel Kim Booster on his radically transparent comedy, critiques and "the Bechdel test of it all" 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z

The app responds to the performer, and thus the effects change as the pianist plays. Review: Dan Trueman’s ‘Nostalgic Synchronic’ Takes Cage Into the 21st Century 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

The director Ross Katz, making his feature directing debut, does occasionally move the camera around, but for the most part he just points and shoots his performers talking, joking, whining, sharing and caring. Review: In ‘Adult Beginners,’ With Rose Byrne, Siblings Meet Stress 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

"He's right there, so there's no getting away from it," performer Jaquan "Tipsy" Hardaway, said of the mural as he walked into the studio last week. Slaying of Run-DMC Star Remains Unsolved After 15 Years 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z

“He is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – a writer, creator and performer who is loved and respected in every medium he touches, including theater, comedy, music, film and television.” James Corden is New Host of The Late Late Show 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

And the new, evidently final, season of “Fleabag,” arriving Friday, demonstrates that Waller-Bridge, as a writer, observer and nimble performer, is flipping terrific at this — even better than the last time. Review: As She Was Saying, Brilliantly, in a New ‘Fleabag’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

In a fast reading, just over 50 minutes, the performers make each tiny change in rhythm and instrumentation land both musically and emotionally. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

In the 1940s, she was one of the first black performers hired to sing with a major white band, the first to play the Copacabana nightclub and among a handful with a Hollywood contract. Legendary singer Lena Horne dies 2010-05-10T05:35:00Z

The performer strives to be easily understood by both vocal projection and acting talent, to convey a tender thread of fragility, or stormy soul, confusion in dilemma, or broken-hearted revenge. Cardiff Singer of the World: is a beautiful voice enough? 2013-06-19T20:00:02Z

The second gallery space will house videos and archives; two performers will be on hand. Xavier Le Roy’s ‘Retrospective’ at MoMA PS1 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

While still a budding teenage performer, Mr. Cocker had kept his day job as a gas fitter for the East Midlands Gas Board. Joe Cocker, Raspy-Voiced Rock Star With Distinctive Moves, Is Dead at 70 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

But what a ripe time to be among the few performers with a live outlet for social commentary. Provincetown: Go for the Mask Compliance, Stay for a Show 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

And besides, several concertgoers said, if celebrity performers didn’t support Mr. Trump, there was no need for them to be here. Trump Concert Draws Excited Fans to Lower-Wattage Lineup 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

Oscar Isaac is as forceful a performer, and Jason Schwartzman as imaginative and surprising an actor, as Hollywood has seen in quite a while. Free Yourself from the Cult of Marlon Brando 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Mario Montez, one of Smith’s regular performers, will initiate the proceedings with a screening of Smith’s best-known film, “Flaming Creatures,” on Nov. 13. Critic?s Notebook: ?To Save and Project,? MoMA?S Film Preservation Festival 2011-10-13T22:30:49Z

The ceremony honoring them, held last month in Cleveland, brought together an equally impressive range of performers to speak — and sometimes sing. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Simple as Water’ and the American Music Awards 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

Soon the performers converge in a huddle in near darkness; their low hums build into shouts and then — boys will be boys — a free-for-all as they pull and push one another. Review: Men Will Be Boys and Sometimes Infants 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

The animators themselves are cast like performers, with some specializing in comedy and others in emotional moments, Mr. Podesta said. The Carpetbagger: Animation Advocacy, Pixar Style 2011-02-09T23:54:28Z

With exquisite production values — dramatic apartments and severe color palettes — these two segments showcase the technical prowess of contemporary Indian cinema and the acting talents of a new wave of performers. ‘Ghost Stories’ Review: Bollywood Aims for Frights 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Marietta is the stunt performer with a particular set of skills. The Charming Star With Soulful Eyes Happens to Be a Donkey 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

The band eventually "imploded" because they were awful performers. "WHAM!": The 6 biggest revelations from Netflix's documentary about the '80s pop duo 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

In his later years, Reiner was an elder statesman of comedy, revered and respected for his versatility as a performer and multi-hyphenate. Carl Reiner, comedy legend and "Dick Van Dyke Show" creator, dies at 98 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

A superior performer would certainly have been under-stretched by the vacuous script and the long sections where nothing happens of any consequence. I've never seen … Top Gun 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Suddenly, the performers, so vivid and individual in “Decadance,” became interchangeable. Hubbard Street Dance Gets a Lift From Ohad Naharin 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

Freaks were how older movie stars were regarded in Hollywood after their careers dried up; television was the sideshow where aging performers sought work when studio bosses stopped calling. It’s Jessica Lange’s Show on ‘American Horror Story’ 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Stand-up is an art form full of control freaks, and most reliably funny stand-ups are poised performers who orchestrate laughs from the surprise and insight of their premises and punchlines. Jokes + Exasperation + Subtext = a New York Club Comic on the Rise 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

You’ve no doubt seen characters grow old onstage before, but it’s rare that a performer ages as instantly or fluidly as Ms. Lavin does. Review: ‘Our Mother’s Brief Affair,’ a Play About Unmoored Lives 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Sally Field, who you're working with again now in a new film, was known as a very lighthearted figure, was not necessarily thought of as a very "serious" performer. Michael Showalter on American con artists: "We really are screwed if there's no such thing as truth" 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

Their work in indie films enabled us to view their range to inoculate them from being locked into comedies forever, even if comedy is where their hearts may be as performers and producers. The problem with Mike Myers 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z

They actually have a lot more in common with contemporary arena performers, especially the post-Garth Brooks wave of country artists. Album review: Mumford & Sons, 'Babel' 2012-09-28T00:26:00Z

The two companies represent a mix of young performers still in training and journeymen. Summer Shakespeare: A critic's take on the secret to theatrical success 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the only sane performer to appear on this year’s MTV Video Awards, this young rapper produced a gold debut “good kid, m.A.A.d city” and made just about everyone’s year-end best-of lists. Bumbershoot daily highlights 2013-08-29T20:39:56Z

Developmental labs generally last four weeks and involve performers and creators in a rehearsal room, working on dialogue, scenes, songs and dances. Broadway Actors to Refuse Development Work Over Profit-Sharing Impasse 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

A problem with this argument, though, is that lengthy test periods for productions – a habit that developed on Broadway – were not driven by courtesy towards performers, but by the neurosis of producers. The theatre preview system may have passed its use-by date 2012-06-04T13:18:02Z

This highly popular weekly show, now at its new location, features a rotating cast of veteran U.C.B. performers as well as special guests from TV and movies who deliver monologues that inspire the ensuing improv. 6 Comedy Shows to Catch in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Live dancers echo projected images of the original performers, like shadows or ghosts, in a film by Sol LeWitt. Dance Listings for Dec. 2-8 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Rosenfeldt calls it “a clear statement that the focus in this work is above all on texts, whether by visual artists, filmmakers, writers, performers or architects — and on the poetry of these texts.” “Manifesto”: A manifesto on manifestos starring 12 Cate Blanchetts 2017-05-14T04:00:00Z

And now there’s Carole J. Bufford, a sizzling cabaret performer who in her show “Speak Easy” at the Metropolitan Room offers the fullest realization I can remember of a 1920s girl gone wild. Music Review: Carole J. Bufford in ‘Speak Easy’ 2012-05-22T22:02:59Z

How does that kind of energy change things for you as a performer? Craig Finn keeps the faith: “We live in divided times, but I do believe that people are inherently good” 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

“Opera takes place in a room with energy moving back and forth between performers and audience, and this is not it.” HD broadcasts, once the future of opera, are now seen by some as its demise 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Two performers, helped by a box with movable panels that looks as if it may really take flight in the final magical sequence, offer a series of playful and sometimes surreal encounters. Parachutists Or On the Art of Falling ? review 2010-10-22T21:17:00Z

The annual extravaganza featured marching bands, performers and floats, but it's the huge inflatables that always steal the show. In pictures: Thanksgiving Day parade 2012-11-22T20:24:52Z

Early on, the performers didn’t work with professional stylists; they wore their own clothes in the photos. Perspective | Nicki Minaj and a stack of pancakes? These rare images capture another side to hip-hop. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

It also explains why some celebrated performers find it difficult to stay out of the public arena. Why do musicians like Elton John find retirement so tough? A music psychology expert explains 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Benjamin remained associated with the center as a teacher and performer until it closed in the 1980s. Fred Benjamin, Teacher of Jazz Dance, Dies at 69 2013-12-19T23:46:23Z

It's hard to characterise it as dance, since the performers barely move. Ea Sola: 'I'm not an intellectual, I come from the forest' 2011-08-25T21:15:02Z

There are two stories told here, Khan's and the queen's, and the trouble with this 25-minute work is that, for all the performers' remarkable intensity, they do little more than scratch the narrative surface. Gnosis 2010-04-26T23:32:00Z

And the sound is on such a scale that it encloses listeners and performer together. Paul Jacobs brings thundering drama in a calm package 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

But this time around, the secret performer is veteran soul singer Charles Bradley, fresh off an appearance at Timber! Your week in Seattle music: Santana, Sara Bareilles and more 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

“Grace Action” uses 12 performers; I find it a dance of pretty surface rather than of human depth — but the prettiness is exceptional. Review: For Pennsylvania Ballet, Transitions Onstage and Off 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Six other performers had succeeded Mostel as Tevye on Broadway, and the show had played 32 countries from Spain to Rhodesia. 'Fiddler on the Roof's' universal themes still resonate after 50 years 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z

Four of his technically secure and theatrically assertive performers were elegantly dressed in high-necked, sleeveless dancewear that allowed them to lie on the floor. Dance Review: Take Unusual Music, Mix Contrasting Movements, Stir Well 2011-03-01T22:40:58Z

A few performers tear it up within reduced circumstances. Review: ‘Motown Gospel Presents 1 Mic 1 Take’ Sells Simplicity 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

I just popped back down to our studio theatre, where a solo performer is taking the first steps towards a new dance theatre piece. For theatres, experimentation is a necessity, not a luxury 2011-01-21T11:47:02Z

LUCERNE, Switzerland — The remarkable lineup of musical events and performers at the Lucerne Easter Festival this week has lived up to every realistic expectation. ArtsBeat: When Expectations Mix With Reality 2011-04-16T11:50:33Z

Similarly, Mike is at home, spending the sort of time with his wife and children that a multi-decade life as a traveling hip-hop performer so often doesn’t allow for. Run the Jewels return, right on time 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

Shows usually have three or four performers who take turns, with amusing banter in between. 36 Hours in Nashville 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

“Magic Mike XXL,” conceived as a blatantly commercial follow-up, indeed flings itself vigorously into the act, casting aside all doubts and exalting the emotional merits of fantasy—for performer and spectator alike. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

Dances that keep going around in circles or in which the performers endlessly spin are usually joyful or ecstatic or in pursuit of a mystical transcendence. Dance Review: Donna Uchizono Company at New York Live Arts 2013-12-06T22:22:10Z

And many of the performers at Sunday’s GlobalFest also brought grievances with them along with their costumes and instruments: against occupation, the erasure of indigenous voices, walls. At GlobalFest, a World of Music, Costumes and Messages 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

He gets out of the way, he gives it to you and he allows the performer to shine.” Ten Years Later, Adam Gwon Is Looking to Kill 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z

Titano, who is 44 and lives in West Philadelphia, said that performer friends had talked him into his current profession about seven years ago. A Toothy Strongman Gets a Role at the Met Opera 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

The performers, famous for their quick-witted spontaneity and mold-breaking audacity, occasionally read quotations from pieces of paper taped to the church’s pillars — potential buoys in an improvisational ocean with few breezes of inspiration. Review: Three Dance Legends Walk Into a Church … 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Correction: An earlier version of this article quoted Julie Taymor as saying that 24 “Lion King” performers had 20 years of service, but she meant that 20 people had 24 years of service. Perspective | ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Wicked’ return to Broadway — and it’s the heart that sings 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

There are 20,000 performers here, all desperate to be discovered. The Edinburgh fringe: why did I do it? 2010-08-13T08:00:00Z

After all, the same Academy members who vote to nominate performers for Oscars vote to nominate the members of the Board to represent their branches. The Diversity Problem at the Oscars Starts at the Top 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

Barry Cryer, the veteran writer and performer, said Vicious had fallen into the trap of trying to be funny all the time rather than developing characters people could identify with. ITV sitcom Vicious is cliched and outdated, says Barry Cryer 2013-06-17T23:05:02Z

An early beneficiary of the restoration programme is a film of circus performers, which Williams began when he was just 20, later put to music composed by a young Richard Rodney Bennett. Richard Williams: the master animator 2013-04-19T17:59:00Z

Dances occur not in groups every hour, which would suit the energy and attention of performers and audiences, but with pauses of several minutes between each. Critic’s Notebook: Former Merce Cunningham Dancers at Philadelphia Museum 2012-12-23T22:53:57Z

Guests and performers also put cash into the local economy. Summer festivals highlight Lebanese resilience in shadow of war 2013-08-30T15:43:55Z

The painter’s main model for them was Carmen Lahens, a Haitian performer who settled in Nice; several photographs show her posing for the artist. A Long Overdue Light on Black Models of Early Modernism 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

But we need a performer who could do the emotions. "Indemnity" director on his unique South African action film: "What if trauma can be weaponized?" 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

In the 1930s or 1940s it was hard to imagine that a musical performer, although vastly popular, could fashion himself or herself into this kind of cultural and political personality. What "Yesterday" — and everyone else — forgets about the Beatles 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

SAT-SUN Music, performers, craft vendors, food trucks, kids’ activities, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

Still running — deadline Monday night: Our contest to change the name of a music performer slightly and describe the new act. Style Invitational Week 1083: Good thing there’s no app for that

That’s echoed by the sense of the movie as something spontaneously but smartly thrown together by born performers. Pitch Perfect: Back to School Isn't Usually This Much Fun 2012-09-27T14:00:21Z

A “Rocky Horror Show” revival in 2001 scheduled one to raise money for the Actors Fund, a charity that assists performers. Broadway at Midnight: ‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ at an Unusual Hour 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Just so you know, this company’s performers have always been adept at assessing just how far they can push the boundaries between you and them. Review: ‘Behind the City’ Immerses You in New York and Yourself 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

Cannes Film Festival: The Actor as Literal Shape-Shifter CANNES, France — In its purest form, cinema is an art of motion, and no contemporary performer better expresses that truth than the French actor Denis Lavant. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: The Actor as Literal Shape-Shifter 2012-05-25T20:23:25Z

The title of its new work, “Up and Away,” refers to a large mobile, designed by the actor and sculptor Kevin Reese, which the company’s performers assemble and launch by the dance’s end. Dance Listings for Oct. 9-15 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

It’s a study in the politics of 21st-century Nashville stardom, the delicate maneuvering that a performer like Mr. Paisley must do to keep his pews filled. Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

Add to that a double high-wire act on bicycles and a swinging trapeze with triple twists, and there's no doubt you are watching some of the most skilled performers in the world. Kooza – review 2013-01-09T14:18:11Z

The English performer prefers the other parts of his job, writing songs and playing live. Ed Sheeran stretches into radio-friendly territory 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Although the actors are not on skates, when the derby matches are being depicted, the performers vigorously swipe the floor with their feet, giving a reasonable suggestion of careering around a track on eight wheels. Theater Review: ‘The Jammer’ by Rolin Jones at Atlantic Theater Company 2013-01-23T23:19:07Z

“The Music of Paul Simon,” with about two dozen performers playing a song each, was the 10th annual all-star songwriter tribute at Carnegie Hall produced by Michael Dorf of City Winery. Music Review: Tuneful Paul Simon Tribute Bridges Decades 2014-04-01T22:19:25Z

Although you do miss the amplitude of a large-scale musical, this puts a nice spotlight on the performers, who seize their chances with lively ingenuity. Review: ‘Dames at Sea’ Skips Onto Broadway 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

The puppets and the settings are manipulated by the performers in front of video cameras while at the same time you see the projected image up on a massive screen. Something Very Far Away – review 2012-06-10T14:11:57Z

He said he chose not to renew 12 dancers’ contracts, a decision based partly on the performers’ physiques, technical abilities and versatility. Ángel Corella of Pennsylvania Ballet Upends Troupe, Reflecting New Vision 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Flowers and her band, first-time performers at the festival, opened Sunday at the Congo Square stage where the closing day's headliner, Al Green, would perform. Fledgling artist Erika Flowers plays NO Jazz Fest 2012-04-29T21:31:04Z

All the performers but Mr. Meehan bear a notable resemblance to the figures they represent — or at least are made to do so through costuming and makeup. Critic’s Notebook: At the Live Arts Festival, ‘Bang,’ ‘27’ and ‘Zero Cost House’ 2012-09-21T23:02:38Z

"Some characters, like Cookie Monster, require two performers with two practical hands." 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

I never wanted to be a performer, but I enjoyed being part of that world, because it was still creating something on a big, live stage. 'Mortal Kombat' Reloaded: A Director's Quest to Remake a Game-to-Movie Franchise 2010-06-15T13:58:00Z

Allegra owns 45 horses on a farm in Connecticut, many of whom are frequent performers. Enter Stage Left: A Donkey Debuts at the Met Opera 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

Growing up in Brooklyn, Clay was a natural performer. With old dirty nursery rhymes and a new series, Andrew Dice Clay returns 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

"They needed someone to hold a dance class for the performers and help rehearse them, during a run in Hartford." Former PNB dancer at home under Cirque du Soleil's grand chapiteau 2010-06-02T00:03:00Z

So, too, did the rousing Sinead O’Connor performance, “The Gospel Sessions,” which featured this idiosyncratic Irish performer backed by veteran gospel performers for a concert of classic spirituals and hymns. Summing Up the Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-31T12:30:54Z

And the composer Christian Frederickson, playing a stew of ominous hums and buzzes, viola melodies and rock backbeats, is an outsider with greater influence than any other performer. Dance Review: Pavel Zustiak’s ‘Painted Bird’ Blurs Insiders and Outsiders 2013-07-02T21:27:31Z

Sam is a talented performer for whom not a lot went right. Echoes of that "Ted Lasso" Midwest niceness in "Somebody Somewhere" 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z

The Las Vegas performer Fay McKay is the increasingly intoxicated-sounding singer of “The Twelve Daze of Christmas,” in which the gifts bestowed by her true love are all liquid. John Epperson Returns, in ‘Lypsinka! The Trilogy’ 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

The show featured a series of performers, most of them amateurs, and a panel of three celebrity judges. Chuck Barris, Eclectic Entertainer of ‘Gong Show’ Fame, Dies at 87 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

With high-definition video now part of the equation, the temptation for the Los Angeles Philharmonic to entice the most attractive young performers must be greater than ever. Balsom, Karadaglic a cool match at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences marked the milestone anniversary by presenting special awards honoring a producer and performer who had groundbreaking shows on TV in 1972 when the International Emmys were first presented. Alda, Lear honored at 40th International Emmys 2012-11-20T03:18:08Z

However, the most gushing person to take the stage arguably wasn't a performer at all, but the Russian organizer of the competition, Alexander Shamaev. Karaoke champs vie for fame, dumplings in Russia 2010-09-23T19:47:00Z

Besides writing hits for the Drifters, the Shirelles and other performers, King sang her own material on the classic "Tapestry" album. Singer-songwriter Carole King writing memoir 2011-06-13T23:01:23Z

"Bob Dylan is probably the most studied rock performer of the last 40 years," said Austin. Bob Dylan manuscripts seen top items in NY rock and roll auction 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

I cannot fundamentally agree with the policy of universally demanding performers’ condemnation of the invasion or of Putin himself in order to be invited to perform. A Conductor on Why He Stayed in Russia After the Invasion Began 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Male performers — and hip-hop acts in particular — were prominent in the nominations for the next Grammy ceremony, to be held in Los Angeles on Jan. 26. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Dominate Grammy Nominations 2013-12-07T04:23:10Z

A 1998 profile in the Guardian called him "a polymath performer with a nice line in self-directed irony". Dancer Charnock dies of cancer 2012-08-02T16:03:04Z

In 1992, she moved to New York and became active in helping to bring Egyptian performers to the United States. Magda Saleh, Influential Egyptian Ballerina, Is Dead at 79 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z

You can’t ask these questions of a drawing, and yet Ms. Cool isn’t in a way fully realized as a performer. Dance Review: Mechanics and Grace Found in Small Tasks 2011-01-20T22:01:58Z

Ms. Achugar is joined by eight other performers — and willing spectators — to create what she calls a “utopian collective body.” Dance Listings for Jan. 15-21 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

She occasionally projected the live performers into the video illustrations. 'Alice in Wonderland' at Disney Hall proves exhilarating 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

They mimic scenes from “Some Like It Hot,” “A Clockwork Orange” and “The Misfits,” among others, making the point, to paraphrase Ellie, that it is impossible for any one performer to truly be another. Review: In ‘My Art,’ the Artist Laurie Simmons Plays an Artist 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

Foreign filmmakers — including the first female director — and performers were among the marquee nominees, while one of cinema's most influential directors failed to receive a nomination for what is now considered a landmark film. 49th Academy Awards in '77: 'Rocky,' posthumous honor and Scorsese snub 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

But "Orphan Black" is much more than a platform for a talented performer; it's a smartly written, carefully constructed exploration of identity, of the shifting tension between our differences and our similarities. 'Orphan Black,' Emmy snubs and questions of identity 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

Each symphony takes a physical and psychic toll on performers — and listeners. Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic power through Mahler's potent Sixth 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Afterward, Ms. Smith laments that in contemporary dance, a performer can create a great work but few people will see it. Review: The Documentary ‘Bobbi Jene’ Finds a Dancer in Flux 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

“We wanted to create a three-way conversation between composer, performer and producer.” Rob Moose: Breathing New Life Into Classical Music 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

You hear the performers before you see them, doing highly audible mic checks in the wings. ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Review: Hip-Hop Saves the World 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes brought together many of the leading progressive composers, performers, artists and designers of those times, and the impact of this milieu on Wood’s work is revealed in the second room, “Theatrical Parallels.” Christopher Wood’s Brief Life, Richly Expressed 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

That student, Roberta Flack, used to be a regular performer at Mr. Henry’s Restaurant on Capitol Hill. Actor. Lawyer. Lover of the arts. Her uncle defied category. 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rashad, a notable actor herself, has naturally been most successful with the performers, several of whom are new to me. Review: A Raucous Wake for ‘Our Lady of 121st Street’ 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Whether you call it acting or channeling, though, a piece like “Polylogues” requires the performer to disappear into the characters, to slip in and out of them, to embody them vocally and physically. Review: In ‘Polylogues,’ Dispatches From Non-Monogamy 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Retirement for the performer, known in civilian life as Mark William Calaway, was never explicitly stated by the announcers on the broadcast or posted to the throbbing oversized screens in the stadium. WrestleMania Stories Collide in the Ring 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

The rest of the cast doesn’t always meet the same high standards, although all are creditable performers within the limits of their roles. Theater Review: ‘Les Misérables’ Returns to Broadway 2014-03-24T02:00:01Z

Listen up, Hulkamaniacs: Are you an aspiring young actor or journeyman performer looking for advice, inspiration and insider anecdotes from a seasoned show-business veteran? ArtsBeat: Hulkamania Really Is Coming For You: Hulk Hogan Plans Live Tour 2011-06-08T14:28:34Z

This interactive show will feature puppets, colorful props — and the performers’ inimitable and well-known antics — as well as catchy pop tunes. Spare Times for Children Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Single mothers, grandmas with Alzheimer's, homeless street performers, bad teeth, and fathers that miss the birth of their children. "American Idol" recap: The dreamboats have landed 2010-02-25T15:26:00Z

The Patagonia Music Collective kicks off Tuesday with more than 20 tunes by various performers. Retailer links with musicians for green causes 2011-03-01T13:31:05Z

The performers threw play money into the crowd while singing, “I like big bucks and I cannot lie / You mortgage brothers can’t deny.” Pop culture remix: Key moments in ‘Baby Got Back’ history 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

In any case, a number of performers are currently making big impressions with relatively minuscule amounts of screen time. Standouts on ‘Grimm,’ ‘Legit,’ ‘Blue Bloods’ and Other Shows 2014-03-21T20:16:42Z

The sisters Lewisohn had, together and separately, truly remarkable careers as performers and impresarios. Review: In ‘Sisters’ Follies,’ Basil Twist Conjures Two Avant-Garde 1915 Benefactors 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

In circus, you see performers doing things that you think are not possible to do. An Acrobat and a Dancer Walk Into a Circus (and Do Ballet in the Air) 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

At a group-therapy session, the performers introduce themselves as Paris Opera Ballet dancers, and there are allusions to the company’s hierarchy, and a foray into the ornate foyer de la danse behind the stage. Love and Death in Paris, With an Assist From Star-Crossed Verona 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

"Deadpool 2" was her first role as a stunt performer in a film, according to Deadline Hollywood. 'Deadpool 2' stuntwoman who died is motorcycle racer S.J. Harris 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z

Stage directions are “how” the performer is to perform actions. How designers compress ideas to their essence 2012-07-17T00:00:00Z

Seen as Britain's first international jazz musician, he influenced generations of British performers. 2010-02-07T10:53:00Z

To further distinguish each performer, we are also given a separate audio track, in which the story of that dancer’s birth is recounted by members of his or her family. Review: A Home Delivery, Shiny and Bright 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Another reason the revival has managed to last is the decision to cast celebrity replacements in lead spots - basically asking famous performers to join a show about the venality of celebrities. 'Chicago' is Broadway's 4th longest-running show 2011-08-27T09:31:05Z

I Speak Because I Can sounds like an intimate conversation between performer and listener. McGee on music 2010-03-30T14:51:00Z

In many cases, the performer making such a statement will allow the music to demonstrate that he’s right. Barry Manilow bids farewell (for now) at Staples Center 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

There's an interesting piece from one of the performers, Stella Duffy, here. What to see? 2010-07-02T15:56:00Z

By 1959 he was the most highly paid Black performer in history, with fat contracts for appearances in Las Vegas, at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles and at the Palace in New York. Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Some of that has to do with each performer's star power, but much more of their success can be attributed to their deeper dives into relevant issues that the typical news cycle tends to skim. Why women really don’t get to host late-night TV 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

The truth, however, is that Waters and his fellow-musicians enjoyed a singular moment, roughly parallel to the American century, when performers could get rich off of recorded music. Joan Jonas, Roger Waters, and Mother’s Day Theatre Picks 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

She initially envisioned a career as a performer, studying violin and attending the Royal College of Music in London for graduate studies, and working as a freelance musician in New York. A Pioneering Orchestra Boss Had ‘Unfinished Business,’ So She Returned 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

And you might argue that the only way for any performer to protest Israeli policies is to avoid the country completely. When musicians boycott countries there are no clear winners 2010-05-26T15:09:00Z

Her bulky figure and deep voice made her a striking live performer. Ljiljana Buttler obituary 2010-05-12T17:43:00Z

For any overweight performer, Mr. Farley said, laughter can be as habit-forming as food. Fat?s No Longer a Punch Line 2010-02-18T01:32:00Z

He has a traveling spirit inspired in part by his father’s mother — a tumbler, fiddler and vaudeville performer — and, at age 18, Solivan moved to Alaska in a GMC pickup on a friend’s invitation. The bluegrass is now being served 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

If he were a fan, he wouldn’t want to look up and see the performer drinking water. The 373-Hit Wonder 2011-01-07T15:27:23Z

Though still a box-office magnet, he seemed to be growing ever more fatigued as a performer, finally brought low in 1986 when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Book review: ‘Becoming Richard Pryor,’ by Scott Saul 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Instead, his big idea is for the members of the group to render their routines personal, to replace their generic stage personae with ones that reflect each performer’s personality, taste, and ambition. “Magic Mike XXL” Grabs Our Convoluted Fantasies of Pleasure 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

The excitement of the fight was continually interrupted by the performers stopping to limber up or drink from water bottles. Dance Review: ‘Dance Taipei,’ at New York Live Arts 2013-05-06T20:20:17Z

Witherspoon, fresh from the costly Christmas flop "How Do You Know," stars as Depression-era circus performer who does stunts on an elephant. "Rio" still No. 1 at world box office 2011-04-24T17:47:44Z

At this show the young performers will explore a topic always worthy of a laugh: Mom and Dad, and their embarrassing habits, tastes and displays of affection. Spare Times for Children for May 17-23 2013-05-16T22:17:51Z

As both a writer and a performer, Ms. Peterson knows how to wield tenderness to leaven despair. Review: ‘The Peculiar Patriot’ Puts Iron Bars Between Best Friends 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z

But for many music historians, composers and performers, it's Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde" that deserves the title. Preview: Seattle Opera stages Wagner's influential 'Tristan und Isolde' 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

The versatile Smith, an improv master teacher and performer, will play all the roles in his story. Nuns, swordplay in theater offerings | Bumbershoot 2013 2013-08-29T05:26:24Z

But the silence and hostility with which African-American performers have often been greeted by the country establishment needs even greater emphasis. Ken Burns’s Delightful “Country Music” Gets the Big Things Mostly Right 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z

“It means that Broadway is right there,” he said in 1982, “but for new, young performers it is inaccessible.” Nora Mae Lyng, Actress at the Heart of ‘Forbidden Broadway,’ Dies at 66 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

The performers, 12 Chinese acrobats and martial artists, display more or less familiar circus skills — contortion, gymnastics, hula-hooping — as well as kung fu abilities. Review: Chen Shi-Zheng’s ‘Double It,’ Feats of Derring-Do, With Vignettes 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

One of the performers stands very close to the women and, raising his voice, repeats all this business about things of lesser and greater consequence, just for their benefit and in their own language. A piece of performance art set in darkness made me see the light 2012-06-14T16:16:32Z

None of this is to diminish the talents of Paulson or Farrell, who are actually two of my favorite performers on the big and small screens. Why Does Hollywood Keep Using Fat Suits? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Cosson, who says he is not a performer, at times doesn’t seem to know where to stand or what to say next. ‘Artificial Flavors’ Review: Blame ChatGPT for This Musical 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

You don’t mind the wayward vowels, however, since all the performers are so funny and affecting. Review: ‘The Herd,’ Rory Kinnear’s Drama About Family Friction 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

As she speaks, male performers cover her body with ink and then press her onto a long swath of paper on the floor. Theater Review: Belarus Free Theater’s ‘Minsk, 2011’ at the Public Theater 2013-01-17T22:04:19Z

It’s true that the show I saw featured performers as committed as any improv comic I had seen. You Are Getting Sleepy. When You Wake Up, You Will Be an Improv Star. 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

Both performers dance a great deal; Mr. Wheeldon has created a ballet to Gershwin’s “Second Rhapsody” at the end of Act I, as well as retaining the 16-minute “American in Paris” ballet toward the end. Christopher Wheeldon Directs ‘An American in Paris’ for Broadway 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

It’s an approach that demands a lot of its performers. Review: ‘Venus’ Recalls a Woman’s Fortune, and Her Ruin 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

By contrast, Devine is a one-note performer, but it’s a strong and distinctive note that he gives a tone of his own, that of a teddy bear on the verge of crocodile tears. “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” and the Death of the Hollywood Comedy 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Swinton and Díaz are subtle, charismatic performers, and their scenes together, which make up most of the film’s last section, bring it to a new level of intensity. ‘Memoria’ Review: In Search of Lost Time 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

She really wanted to talk to performers, and talk about the roles, and the music and the characters. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Loved Opera, and Opera Loved Her Back 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

A dreamlike semistaged version of Verdi’s “Requiem,” featuring masked performers, a giant liturgical incense bottle that swings from the ceiling, and a cast member who floats above the stage will appear in late January. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

There is no greater gift a performer can give. Nichelle Nichols Helped Show America a Different Future 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

Last season we had six women magicians who were on, as not part of a team, but were on as solo performers. Penn Jillette does the math: America's next big magic star will be a woman 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

After that, it’s up to the performers to hold our attention with an artfully told tale. Theater Review: ‘I Remember Mama’ Reminisces at the Gym at Judson 2014-03-31T02:00:01Z

It’s also a reflection of the increasingly fuzzy line, in the age of YouTube, between performer and audience. Has Theater Lost Its Mind? Queen of the Night and Other Immersions 2014-02-13T18:55:19Z

Martín was a dancer at the Royal Ballet who, while not preternaturally technically skilled, was a performer of great wit and elan who knew exactly how to play an audience. The Nutcracker – review 2012-12-23T00:06:43Z

She lights into eco-tourism: “Animals are not performers, and their behavior is not a spectacle.” In ‘White Beech,’ Germaine Greer Takes an Ecological Journey 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

The buildings, like the performers, express a kind of identity in flux — edifices emerging from carceral or related uses, if not yet stably dedicated to something else. Silence Speaking Volumes: Artists Confront the Culture of Incarceration 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

“She’s a great performer, but she is also the author of the play.” Anna Piaggi, Italian Fashion Editor, Dies at 81 2012-08-07T21:27:03Z

Mr. Curbelo’s influence on Latin music grew after his orchestra disbanded in 1959 and he founded Alpha Artists, a booking agency for Latin music performers. José Curbelo, Manager for Leading Latin Music Acts, Dies at 96 2012-09-22T02:27:40Z

The performers are already risking life and limb, so to increase the degree of difficulty by making them deal with slippery surfaces seems almost absurd. Part circus, part technology trade show, Cirque du Soleil's Mexico-themed 'Luzia' opens in L.A. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

“Artists are not necessarily the performers,” he says. Gus Van Sant’s Next Picture Will Be a Watercolor 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

The performers are skilled enough that we don’t hear the sound of gears stripping. Theater Review: ‘Mothers and Sons,’ an AIDS Tale Starring Tyne Daly 2014-03-25T02:00:01Z

The four performers in this modest but engaging collage of reminiscences portray their own parents — mostly their mothers — in conversations about their marriages, all past history, as the title makes clear. Theater Review: ?You Better Sit Down,? by the Civilians, at Flea Theater 2012-04-13T02:00:01Z

Kelly was born in Boise, Idaho, and got her big break in her teens when she was hired to fill in for Jean Shepard during a touring show of performers from the Grand Ole Opry. Country singer Judy Lynn dies in Indiana 2010-05-28T20:38:00Z

"I've always struggled with live music, both as a spectator and performer," he tells me. Keaton Henson: fame, stage fright and the discomfort of strangers 2012-10-03T13:46:03Z

Aside from the small matter, that is, of having performers sing what was originally spoken. ArtsBeat: Nothing Rings True Like Authenticity 2011-07-26T18:21:23Z

To improve matters even further Mr. Morris, a fabulous performer, will be onstage nightly in one guise or another. The Week Ahead: Dec. 5-11 2010-12-03T15:15:00Z

Fittingly, audience members are invited to follow the performers as they progress or even to create their own movement experiences. At Rockaway, Dancing for the Sea, the Sky, the Sand and the Birds 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The lyrics double-down on the obvious, and a few numbers seem shoehorned in just to give a performer a turn in the spotlight. 'Breaking Through' falls into cliched musical traps at Pasadena Playhouse 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Facebook Twitter Pinterest On this evidence, you would not immediately guess that Burgess cut his teeth as a performer in church. All hail Tituss, breakout star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tyson isn’t nearly a skilled enough performer to pull off those kinds of transitions. Theater Review: ‘Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth’ at Longacre Theater 2012-08-03T02:00:00Z

His impassioned, at times almost frenzied, acting style added to his reputation as an exciting performer. Big ovation as Villazon returns to opera in Vienna 2010-03-23T00:50:00Z

Queer theory was all the rage when the 43-year-old performer from Stockton, Calif., was coming of age in the 1990s, and Mac translates this theory into performance practice. Taylor Mac offers a glorious sneak peek of his '24-Decade History of Popular Music' at Royce Hall 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

It was in my mind that if I was going to be successful in this business, it was because I was a good performer, not because people felt sorry for me.” Ed Walker, WAMU personality who burnished radio’s golden age, dies at 83 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

The royalty, the performance right for sound recordings, pays performers and record companies when their songs are played on digital streams like satellite radio and Pandora. Sirius?s Move to Bypass Royalty Agency Causes Uproar 2011-11-06T22:52:04Z

The lid was padlocked shut, which did not help this valiant performer compete with the surrounding noise. ArtsBeat: A Musical Impromptu 2011-07-05T17:23:56Z

Mr. Pierce, a tightly wound yo-yo of a performer, unspools in this operatic lament about cultural decline. Critic’s Notebook: Broadway’s Laughs, From Nathan Lane to Bette Midler 2013-05-29T16:05:07Z

He was instead a sophisticated modernist; a young, ambitious and supremely gifted performer who listened to a wide variety of popular music and synthesized it into an original style. Greg Kot: Music behind myths of Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson 2011-05-03T18:47:25Z

Moments like this are a reminder of how great Wold is at dismantling the barrier between performer and audience, a difficult feat as the Royal Festival Hall is hardly conducive to backporch singalongs. Seasick Steve 2010-06-16T11:47:00Z

A curtsy, meanwhile, “demonstrates the flexibility and balance required of a performer, but it takes longer to execute, indirectly asking the audience to applaud longer,” Ms. Kubik said. The Curtain Call: Dip, Kiss or Curtsy? 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

In May, the National Gallery of Art in Washington announced it had acquired one of his garments, which draws on Native American designs and inspiration from queer performers like the nightclub fixture Leigh Bowery. Jeffrey Gibson Will Be First Indigenous U.S. Artist at Venice Biennale 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

Satisfaction levels among performers might be generally high, but there are whispers from old-school theatre folk that they're not best pleased about Hollywood coming in and stealing the limelight. Tony awards: Hollywood invasion provokes Broadway stage whispers 2010-06-14T10:13:00Z

An ebullient performer, Mr. Asmussen was known for his onstage singing and clowning as well as his playing. Svend Asmussen, an Early Master of Jazz Violin, Dies at 100 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The performers, presenters and winners of Sunday's American Music Awards got their chance, kind of, when they partied post-show at the magazine's only namesake nightclub. AMA stars party at new Rolling Stone nightclub 2010-11-22T10:16:00Z

This year, it’s all women — a sea change, though it leaves no room, alas, for Bob Dylan as a performer or songwriter for his 2020 album “Rough and Rowdy Ways.” Grammys Snubs and Surprises: The Weeknd, Luke Combs and BTS 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

In “Winterize,” the piece’s journey was made literal as performer and audience walked through a chilly Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Review: A Conceptual ‘Winterreise’ Puts a Spin on Schubert 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

Vaudeville reveled in variety, grouping performers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines. Happenstance’s gleeful hat tip to vaudeville with a wink to the present-day 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Yet “Blacktop Highway” is at its intoxicating best when it’s simplest, depending on little more than Mr. Fleck’s rapid-fire ingenuity as a live performer. Review: Stranded. And Don’t Expect Help From Those Animals. 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

He became a solo performer, and styled himself as "a one-man punk revival". Billy Bragg: Barking's Woody Guthrie on 30 years of songs and activism 2013-03-26T17:00:32Z

As is true in any area of music, audiences are drawn to the magnetism of great performers. Perspective | A beginner’s guide to enjoying classic music. No snobs allowed 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Not every work of fiction featuring a transgender performer is necessarily a story about transness. Netflix's superhero series shows what's to be gained from embracing one's true self, even if others 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

For performers, this year is a welcome relief. Onstage, It’s Finally Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas Again 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

"Some of the artists are so controlled by their labels and management and are so lost that I can't work with them," said Perry, who insists on meeting every performer before she works with them. Producer gives performing 2nd try with new band 2011-04-07T13:05:15Z

In the 80s, in Edinburgh, I saw a magic show where the performer was outnumbered by critics. Theatre of the absurd: share your embarrassing audience stories 2013-06-12T09:00:32Z

Instead, dishearteningly, this violence is woven into the choreographic phrases on a structural level — and these phrases are seductive, slinky and muscular and executed by powerfully sleek performers. Dance Review: Mimulus Dance Company Opens Jacob’s Pillow Season 2012-06-22T22:43:21Z

Never a kinetic performer, Mr. Chappelle, who has always had an intimate, even offhanded style, has become even more static and low-energy onstage. Dave Chappelle at Radio City Music Hall 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

Traditional notions of "audience" and "performer" were confused. Calling on the audience to live the dream 2010-08-21T06:00:00Z

For minorities, the numbers are lower: African-American performers, for example, got 11 percent of the principal roles in Broadway and touring plays, and 9 percent in musicals. Theater Jobs Skew White and Male, Study Finds 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z

She tells her performers — if they are questioned — to make eye contact and to be open. At Rockaway, Dancing for the Sea, the Sky, the Sand and the Birds 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

The performers included several former Scott/Powell dancers who are now choreographers in their own right. 'Spotlight on Seattle': performers go to town in dance city 2012-06-07T19:12:13Z

“We want performers to be persuasive, so that their virtuosity is delivered with panache, and fluency and ease,” he said. At Juilliard, Can You Hear the Sprezzatura? 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

I knew something was up with those mascot performers after my daughter had a similar experience, but foolishly, I continued to give Sesame Park the benefit of doubt. Sesame Place falls short of "Sesame Street" — and after my own child's visit, I should have known 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z

As theaters and concerts halls reopen, arts groups have struggled with how to handle young performers and audience members. ‘The Nutcracker’ Returns, With New Rules for Children 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Nor does he care that other brand-name performers seem to be absent for the proceedings. Prophets of Rage Bring Their Anger to the Republican Convention 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

These performers were after a taste of home. Books of The Times: ‘I’ll Take You There,’ by Greg Kot 2014-02-20T13:00:01Z

Long before "grunge" became a household word, spawning its own fashion trend complete with wispy models flaunting designer lumberjack shirts on runways, a palpable rebelliousness and nonconformity energized post-punk fans and performers. What the "Nevermind" celebrations get wrong about Nirvana 2011-09-24T17:01:00Z

But in the early ’90s, country radio stonewalled her album “Cowgirl’s Prayer,” Ms. Harris said, relegating her to the limbo of older performers. A LifeDigging For Veins Of Gold 2011-04-24T00:49:06Z

A unique performer who utterly inhabits her role. The Wire re-up: season five, episode 10 - Baltimore's Academy Awards 2010-04-19T23:15:00Z

Mr. Armisen is much more seasoned as a sketch performer and actor than a stand-up and it often shows. Comics Select Their Audiences as Carefully as Their Jokes 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

There is something sacred in the human connection between the performers and the audience. David Mitchell: 'In a libretto you just write "storm"' 2013-03-25T20:40:00Z

The death of Matthew Perry was sad for all the reasons it is sad when a gifted, nimble, charming performer who has shared his struggles dies too young. The First of Our Friends to Go 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

Long strings hang from bells hidden in the ceiling, rung by the performers as if in a church tower. ‘On Behalf of Nature,’ Meredith Monk’s Wild Side 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Unlike his compatriot Louis Andriessen, Beirens added, “he did not have steady relationships with certain performers, with orchestras or with the music business until a later point in his career.” The Minimalist Composer Who Keeps Getting Left Out 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

And, most of all, the film collects a cast of performers who know how to be funny. | 'Dinner for Schmucks': Steve Carell Stars in ?Dinner Game? Remake 2010-07-29T16:26:00Z

I became conscious that the performers and I were in motion together, the distance between us extending and contracting. Review: Walking in Light on the High Line 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z

The flutist Eugenia Zukerman, who referred to herself and other veteran performers as “antique Y.C.A. artists,” hosted the opening segment of the marathon, devoted to Bach. Music Review: Celebrating 50 Years? Worth of Promising Talent 2011-02-21T23:03:25Z

The performers sing parts of it — a marvelous effect. Dance Review: ‘A Rite’ Riffs on Stravinsky at Chapel Hill, N.C. 2013-01-27T23:15:40Z

This led to intense competition, falling prices and profits, and, as documented by Theroux, lower pay for the performers. Porn is in rude health 2012-06-07T16:30:15Z

In March 1967, he expanded “Piano Phase” into “Four Pianos,” in which four performers played electric pianos while listening to a “guide” player over headphones. Steve Reich at 80: Still Plugged In, Still Plugging Away 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Its peculiar rhythms, in which certain characters conduct nearly uninterrupted monologues of over 10 minutes, seem entirely deliberate, as does the sometimes plain affect of the performers. ‘The Last’ Review: A Revelation Leaves a Family Shattered 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

The New Statesman's critic wrote: "Tonight is about watching a talented person labouring under levels of fame and physical pressure so severe they turn you from a performer into a panting automaton." 'We were all Justin Bieber fans and now we hate him' 2013-03-05T19:03:37Z

Many of the pieces are couture items, built on the bodies of individual performers and retired when those actors leave a show. Velvet, Organza and Vipers: Stage Costumes Dazzle 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

With a few textual trims, Mr. Sullivan and his performers bring off this feat with an ease that, by this point, hardly surprises. Theater Review: A ‘Comedy of Errors’ Unfolds in the ’40s, With Fedoras 2013-06-19T02:00:01Z

He was aided in this by the choreography, which moved from basic blocking and gentle patterns by Chase Brock, for those performers without much stage experience, to more complicated sequences for trained performers. Theater Review: ‘The Tempest,’ at the Delacorte, Enlists 200 New Yorkers 2013-09-09T20:15:13Z

Several of this year’s performers will explore violence. Under the Radar Festival to Feature Global Looks at Violence and Identity 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

Public performers in all walks of life – including Fleet Street columnists – suffer the same temptations and the same risks. When politicians go pop – the perils of trying to appear 'in touch' 2012-12-18T14:30:01Z

As in the best puppet theater, the performers who give voice to their characters and manipulate the puppets do so with such seamless grace that we absorb the story with minimal distraction. Review: ‘Made in China,’ With Romance, Polemics and Puppets 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

There are plenty of examples of great performers not being able to cope with the rigours of performance. Melvyn Tan turns guinea pig: are musicians like athletes? 2012-07-03T17:01:01Z

He held charity concerts in Japan after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami while many other performers canceled shows, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported, and played a violin made from wooden debris from the disaster. Ivry Gitlis, a violinist who spanned genres, dies at 98 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

Many in the crowd at the packed family-friendly show at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center gasped and screamed when the performers came tumbling down in a loud thud. 9 Circus Performers Injured in Fall in Rhode Island 2014-05-04T21:56:16Z

One critic described the unidentified preview pooch as an "endlessly endearing" performer who "didn't put a paw wrong". Pass notes No 2,937: Toto 2011-03-02T19:59:00Z

From the Cotton Club to her legacy at MGM, I think she is far underappreciated as a performer and part of entertainment history. Movie Stars Have Heroines, Too 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

“The role is really a Sophie Tucker role,” Ms. Neuwirth continued, referring to the performer known as “The Last of the Red Hot Mamas, “and there is nothing about me that resembles Sophie Tucker. ArtsBeat: Bebe Neuwirth to Play a Third Role in ‘Chicago’ on Broadway 2013-12-17T18:11:42Z

Onstage, George Carlin was a rebellious performer who delighted in reminding audiences that as much as we try to keep our lives organized, the universe is ultimately a chaotic place. George Carlin’s Belongings Find New Home at National Comedy Center 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

The few steps he gives to the 16 children in the opening garden scene’s waltz are among the freshest moments here; the School of American Ballet performers were all bloom and grace. Review: ‘Swan Lake’ Features an Authoritative Sara Mearns 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

In “Accidental #5” her 13 performers arrive gradually in silence, each one spotlighted in a pose. Dance in Review: Mariangela Lopez and Arturo Vidich 2011-03-06T22:54:31Z

Eighteen SoCal ensembles, most made up of the least daunted young performers you are likely to encounter anywhere, held court. Noon to Midnight, L.A. Phil delivers new music (and free ice cream) 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

“Now it’s a global movement,” she said, citing the popularity of performers like the Velvet Hammer Burlesque and the Pussycat Dolls. Liz Goldwyn, Hollywood Royal Family Member, Takes to Filmmaking 2014-01-12T02:48:43Z

With a performer and character so clearly in tune, it’s no wonder Hedwig’s forlorn voice still pierces with poignancy. Review | Mason Alexander Park brings star power to Olney’s ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Some performers sing in heavily accented English; and now and then everyone breaks into African languages for stretches of spoken dialogue. Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ in Isango Ensemble’s South African Setting 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

A drag performer, the receptionist suggests that Lolita should prepare for her task by pretending to shoot a drag version of each of the seven board members. ‘Notes on Killing’ Review: For These Puerto Ricans, Promises Never Kept 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z

Each of the four performers has memorable moments. Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and Shaw's 'Saint Joan': A marathon for four actors, and the audience 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

Rarely, though, is a performer called upon to develop the same recurring character in two similar worlds. In the end, `Fringe' was all about identity 2013-01-17T17:16:04Z

Even as embodied by performers as skilled as Ms. Taylor and Mr. O’Keefe, they emerge as brainwashed products of a corrupt society. Theater Review: Steven Soderbergh Directs ‘The Library,’ at the Public 2014-04-16T02:00:01Z

The long-in-the-tooth series, despite losing steam, is still a strong performer. CBS hopes viewers are ready for some football and drama this fall 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

The vivacious soprano Measha Brueggergosman, making her company debut, found more pith in the small part of Sister Rose than had any performer heard previously. Houston Grand Opera Holds to Its Promise of Excellence 2011-02-09T16:15:56Z

Star performers are a staple of new plays and revivals on Broadway, but the six actors in “Next Fall” are all from the Off Broadway run: a mix of veteran theater actors and newcomers. ?Next Fall? Tries to Do Broadway on a Budget 2010-03-21T21:41:00Z

All these styles come together in “The Percussionist’s Art,” his 2006 book that is a kind of memoir in music: poetic and thoughtful, but without stinting on detailed measure-by-measure advice for his fellow performers. The ‘Philosopher King’ of Percussion Starts His Next Chapter 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

A World Cup song recorded by Rik Mayall is set to enter the official singles chart this week as fans seek to pay tribute to the performer following his death on Monday. Rik Mayall's World Cup anthem set to move up music charts 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

“And that takes time. That takes up a lot of energy. And I think that’s what separates her from so many other performers, is just her insane work ethic.” AP Breakthrough Entertainer: Sydney Sweeney is taking charge 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Her whole bearing as a performer — judicious, confiding, theatrical, skeptical — suggests a watchful distance from the persona she so persuasively embodies. Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant Wields Her Power, Drawing From Her Album ‘For One to Love’ 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

“Its lively frequency,” he added, “is embedded in the writing, bolstered by Carlos López Estrada’s direction, and kept buoyant by the performers.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Expecting Amy’ and ‘Palm Springs’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

“Going forward, we need to constantly look to both performers, producers and health care professionals to find ways to improve our protocols,” said Diane Duke, CEO of the Canoga Park-based Free Speech Coalition. With Increased Testing, Porn Filming Starts Anew 2013-09-18T09:38:50Z

Coward’s patter songs revel so unabashedly in their own preening turns of phrase that they invite a performer to adopt a brittle, supercilious tone. Music Review: Channeling the Smart Set, but Hold the Snobbishness 2010-03-01T22:52:00Z

It also allows Mr. Joel, a fellow Long Islander, to reconnect with his working-class roots and honor his hometown fans while providing an opportunity for a diligent performer who sometimes reminds him of himself. From Billy Joel Tribute Band to the Real Thing 2013-12-30T22:29:29Z

The multiplatinum performer thanked her fans for being there and joked: "Catch me at my real show next time." Mariah Carey returns to stage since giving birth 2012-03-02T16:16:12Z

Together they composed a catalog of pop standards so diverse and irresistible that they were recorded by performers as unalike as the Drifters, Steve Lawrence, Aretha Franklin and the Beatles. Gerry Goffin, Hitmaking Songwriter With Carole King, Dies at 75 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

The journals offer inside details of Walker's work, family, and lovers, including her relationship with songwriter and performer Tracy Chapman, which Walker has been reticent to discuss until now. Alice Walker's "Gathering Blossoms Under Fire" and the rare gift of Black women's published journals 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

“George and Anahid’s collections not only tell the stories of their incredible careers, but also shed light on the important relationship between producer and artist, and performer and composer.” ArtsBeat: Columbia Records Executive’s Archive Headed to New York Public Library 2014-03-31T15:12:32Z

That position places him on a collision course with the organ-playing establishment that, Carpenter contends, places the interests and preservation of the instrument ahead of the needs of either performer or performance. Cameron Carpenter: rhinestone cowboy 2010-05-20T22:30:00Z

Two performers in Leigh Bowery-esque inflatable costumes bounced through the crowd, like a debauched Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Not Going Gentle Into That Good Night 2013-07-10T21:41:08Z

“When a performer would walk upon that stage, you had to bring all of you — all of your spirit, all of your soul, all of your God-given talent, all of your authenticity.” The Week in Arts: Clairo, John Cage and Shia LaBeouf’s ‘Honey Boy’ 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z

There could be grave repercussions for the cultural sector if it became harder for performers and creative artists to enter Britain, it said. As Brexit Looms, Musicians Brace for the Worst 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

A fragmented, incantatory immersion in clinical depression, filled with descriptions of psychotropic drugs, sets of numbers, angry rants and stark wordplay, the script specifies neither characters nor precise plot, nor even the number of performers. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

It took place on white carpet and included an extended group relevé in which performers, ranging from untrained dancers to those from Merce Cunningham’s company, fought for their balance. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Eventually, the library cleared the families and performers from where we had hidden them in the staff room in the back. Drag queen story hour doesn't traumatize my kids — but the anti-LGBTQ protesters certainly could 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z

No details about the performers or ticket information were announced. Coachella Promoters Announce Panorama, a New Music Festival in New York 1453-08-24T05:00:00Z

One thing's for sure: He's as much a performer as an athlete -- more so, post-boxing. What Charlie Sheen can learn from Mike Tyson 2011-03-03T15:40:00Z

Performing into her eighties, she remained a beacon for black performers, a divinity to audiences of all colors and a lingering, stinging reproach to the attitudes that had robbed her of her Hollywood prime. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

I’ve been a live performer since I was six years old. Jewel on Coping With Heartache: ‘I Peel Off Every Scab and Stick My Finger in Them’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

It’s impossible not to be impressed by the troupe’s balancing acts or its teeterboard, which springs the performers far higher than you’d think possible. Theater Review: ‘Urban,’ at the New Victory Theater 2012-10-15T22:02:33Z

Leaving the home circle, the performers splintered into a duo and threesome, after which Adriene Barber began a long solo that was the work’s beating heart. Garth Fagan Dance delivers new spirit-lifting work 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

The interview drew strong criticism, including from some Black performers and writers. For Broadway’s ‘1776’ Revival, the Drama Is Offstage 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

And the chorus, monochromatically costumed and often moving in unison, sang with as much richly defined character as any single performer onstage. Review: Opera Stars Take On an Omicron-Battered Vienna 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z

A sort of Simon Cowell in reverse, Peer realised early on that performers could make more money for themselves – and for their publishers – if they wrote their own material. Pop's undersung heroes: artists with big influence but small reputation 2010-07-15T21:00:00Z

Bella is looked at, but she also looks: at herself, other performers, the landscape and her place in it. ‘Pleasure’ Review: She’s a Go-Getter 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

If it hadn’t tried something new, SNL never would have found these vital and invigorating performers. Leslie Jones: brash, outrageous and great for SNL 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

In a radio interview last month, he argued that neither hip-hop acts nor dance music performers like Donna Summer and Madonna should be in the Hall. Hall of Fame Decides Who Rocks, Officially 2014-04-09T21:44:44Z

For many in the fashion world, the film and album “Purple Rain” became their gateway to a lifelong connection to Prince, as both a performer and role model. Prince Is Mourned by Fashion World, Which Counted Him as One of Its Own 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Sheppard-Skaerved pointed out that the advent of the mass-produced graphite pencil in the second half of the 19th century coincided with profound changes in the way a performer engaged with a musical text. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

Beginning on Tuesday, viewers will start to vote for the performers by phone or at NBC.com. New TV Hit Hums Along Online, Too 2011-06-06T22:17:07Z

He praises “the pared-down simplicity of Marty’s costumes, the amazing elegance he always achieved with people of all shapes and sizes, and how he made performers feel in the clothes he made for them.” Director of Seattle ‘Ring’ operas: Go, ponder, enjoy 2013-08-02T22:06:32Z

A panel of critics and performers will select one winner from each field. Performers Nominated for Clive Barnes Award 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z

“There are many artists and organizations that need support and we are continuing to curate in order to provide opportunities for a wide range of performers,” she said in an email. Bang on a Can Marathon Loses Its Home 1462-06-05T05:00:00Z

With preparations for Sunday's Academy Awards show under way across the street, about 100 passers-by gathered with anticipation as the performers swallowed steel. Steel on the menu at sword swallowers' Hollywood sideshow 2013-02-24T16:26:20Z

In this quiet, unique setting, the performers will move with a focus on circles, spheres, spirals and loops. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The show, which was broadcast live, featured a roster of regular performers including, at one point, Ms. Watanabe, who did impersonations. Popular Japanese Comedian Wants to Bring Her Plus-Size Fashion to the U.S. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Like Silverman, I know that great performers of any religion can and have brilliantly played Jews, and it’s easier to pass as Jewish than, say, African American. Is It Funny for the Jews? 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Kerr is a cult folk performer herself, and someone still influencing new folk musicians. Papa's got a brand new Bagpuss 2010-07-29T22:30:00Z

One of the dancers asks this for us, holding a microphone up for the performer who has taken on the role of Dora. Review | Bill T. Jones reveals the power of the human spirit in dance, music and text 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Seinfeld also spoke about his approach to stand-up in this anxious period, the performers who have transgressed and the artists he still admires. Jerry Seinfeld on Louis C.K., Roseanne and Tense Times in Comedy 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z

While watching street artists near the Arc de Triomphe, Rachel was invited to assist one of the performers. How to visit Paris on the cheap: dos and don’ts for budget-minded families 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Max Vernon — a young songwriter, performer and creator of musicals — happened upon that largely forgotten history and was developing the musical “The View UpStairs” when Orlando returned the New Orleans incident to the news. Celebration's 'The View UpStairs': Before the gay bar burned, there was music, friendship and family 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

“Evan was one of those adored New York performers,” Mr. Tear said. ‘Deliverance’ to Open 59E59’s New Season 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

Still, she doesn't strike me as a natural performer. There's a right way to deal with hecklers. Then there's Michelle Obama's… 2013-06-08T23:05:27Z

If you want to get new content, quality content that’s actually well made, somebody has to pay the performers. 7 surprising ways porn is changing 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

He is a newscaster as performer, and at times he plays a comedian, making folks laugh at the absurdity in the far-flung world. Tom Hanks' "News of the World" is a toothless throwback Western 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

Rather than writing for conventional performers, Mr. Lang enlisted four classically trained artists busy in alternative-pop circles, where the confessional spirit of Schubert’s lieder is found most readily, he asserted. Music Review: David Lang?s Music at Zankel Hall 2012-01-31T22:55:56Z

After receiving a dissertation grant, I had so much time on my hands that I began moonlighting as a performer at East Village open mics. After Losing My Sight, Struggling to Be Seen 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z

Every performer makes use of a camera or projector. Review: Who Am I? ‘Panorama’ Says There Is No Easy Answer 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Their definition of “artist” was reasonably broad: It included not only composers, musicians, dancers, and actors, but also journalists, clowns, magicians, and nightclub performers. Artists report high job satisfaction 2013-09-05T12:20:00Z

I genuinely appreciate the madcap workmanship of Travis Scott, who is not content as a performer unless he throws himself into a crowd, but his punk maximalism didn’t quite translate in his shoehorned Grammys set. It’s Too Late for the Grammys to Redeem Themselves 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

Perry's performance will be the NFL's fourth consecutive show to include younger acts after previous performers Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, the Rolling Stones, and The Who. Katy Perry to play Super Bowl show 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

True, one of the evening’s most winning performers, the frisky juggler and acrobat David Menes, occasionally comes larking onstage and announces, “Konstantin is dead!,” referring, presumably, to the doomed young playwright in “The Seagull.” Theater Review: ‘Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,’ by Daniele Finzi Pasca, at BAM 2012-11-16T22:50:08Z

At first I thought this second performer was engaged in a feline masquerade. Hotel Room Theater: Richard Maxwell's 'Showcase' at the Millennium Biltmore 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

“They kicked them out and said, let’s open the doors to ‘professionals’” — primarily white instructors who weren’t top-tier public performers. Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music. Can It Meet This Moment? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Clark died Sunday at Mercy Hospital in Joplin, where he had been receiving cancer treatment before he contracted the coronavirus, his publicist and fellow performer Johnny Vallis said Monday. Rockabilly performer Sanford Clark dead at 85 from COVID-19 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, last year the show was criticized for failing to recognize women, with no female performers included on the shortlist for album of the year. Dua Lipa, Arlo Parks, Celeste lead race for UK’s Brit Awards 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

“This movie is crazy, so the idea that I was like, ‘Can you get on these wires and fight a bear performer?’ In the Wild Tale of ‘Cocaine Bear,’ an Apex Predator Is the True Star 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

She is a performer with tremendous social power and absolutely zero political power, unless she starts funding political campaigns or runs for office herself. Celebrities are our new first responders 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

The change allowed rising acts to earn nominations over veteran performers like Eminem and Kanye West, who seemed to get nominated no matter what they released. Doubts loom over nominating process for Grammy Awards 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

“Black Swan” takes us into the ballet world and explores the huge physical and emotional demands it makes on a star performer. Review: Venice Festival Opens With Glimpses Into the Pitfalls of Passion 2010-09-02T12:34:00Z

His strategy as a performer of Feldman doubles as a strategy for novice listeners, as well as anyone weathering the pandemic. Perspective | As time loses its meaning, the music of Morton Feldman gains new resonance 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

The latent desire for self- humiliation lurks in the heart of every performer, but the 37-year-old Thicke is taking it into new terrain. Robin Thicke ignites discussion with ‘Paula,’ but these songs aren’t worth talking about

The most noticeable change was the performance configuration, in which performers faced each other but kept at a distance. Grammys 2021: Women Sweep Awards Shaped by Pandemic and Protest 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

The mutual warmth and respect these performers expressed to each other, and to a full-to-the-brim crowd that was often on its feet during both sets, felt completely genuine. Mavis and Bonnie show powerful musical sisterhood at the Chateau 2012-09-09T19:46:04Z

The play does not require much in the way of acting pyrotechnics, but establishing the nuances of relationships without the benefit of such opportunities makes the performers’ work all the more impressive. Review: ‘Dada Woof Papa Hot,’ About Gay Men and Parenthood 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The 71-year-old actor, who was hailed last week as a candidate for the title of greatest stage performer of all time, believes the decline is due to the dwindling tradition of amateur dramatics. Ian McKellen warns theatre is at risk from fall in acting standards 2010-09-25T23:07:00Z

An Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Golden Globe nominee, Reynolds has starred in more than 50 movies, two Broadway shows and two television series; the 82-year-old performer has made dozens of TV, cabaret and concert appearances. Debbie Reynolds to receive SAG Life Achievement Award 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Currently, just two performers have been publicly confirmed: the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, which was announced Thursday, and Jackie Evancho, a 16-year-old classically trained singer who rose to national fame on “America’s Got Talent.” Do it for the country? Or don’t do it at all? The dilemma facing artists at Trump’s inauguration. 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

It reminds me the performer you talk to in the book who says something like, "Anal is like a first date now." Tracy Clark-Flory: "Our culture is totally ignorant around the realm of sexual fantasy" 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z

Ms. Marie found jazz stardom late in her career, and her ambitions — as a composer and a performer — seem to multiply with each passing year. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The new documentary “Little Richard: I Am Everything” presents the early rock ’n’ roll performer as a man of many contradictions. Late Night Laughs at Elon Musk’s SpaceX Explosion 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

The production is strongly cast from top to bottom, with performers making distinctive impressions even in some of the smallest roles. | 'As You Like It': Love?s Hard, Comic Work, on a Stage Most Worldly 2011-07-08T23:04:48Z

In the work, three performers embody one woman at different stages of her life. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Chances of running into world-class musical talent in the lounges and elevators remain as high as ever--even if the performers themselves aren't. Where The Stars Stay 2010-10-29T16:00:00Z

Boyle is almost like a warm-up guy for mainstream British comedy, generating heat for other performers, but rarely seen onscreen himself. Vicky Pryce is not the villain of this piece 2013-03-10T00:06:19Z

The puppetry blends freely with dance and the six performers, drawn from both disciplines, channel the violence of Hughes's poetry. Crow – review 2012-06-23T23:05:49Z

Fringe goers shouldn't penalise performers for appearing at Edinburgh Comedy festival venues by boycotting them outright. Stewart Lee: the slow death of the Edinburgh Fringe 2012-07-30T19:00:00Z

Grist at least has experience as a performer on his side. Edinburgh fringe's amateur comedians turn headlines into punchlines 2012-07-23T14:26:47Z

“American Horror Story: Freak Show” followed the lives of a troupe of sideshow performers in 1950s Florida. Rose Siggins, Actress on ‘American Horror Story,’ Dies at 43 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

It's an extension of fanzine writing from back then: still naïve and brutal, but honest thoughts about sounds and songs, writers and performers – mixed with a touch of Scunthorpe soul and south London parenting. Blog jam: Listening Is Not Enough 2012-06-14T08:41:00Z

Ryan Schinman, the chief executive of Platinum Rye Entertainment, which matches performers to corporations for advertising, said the promotion’s unusual nature might help it get noticed. Catching a Flight, and a Show 2010-10-20T22:05:00Z

You basically use the same template, plug in different composers and performers, and let things play themselves out, right? Ozawa?s Illness Shadows Festival He Inspired 2010-12-10T16:53:00Z

“It’s really one of the least interesting things about me as a performer,” Haynes said. A Nonbinary Swan, on Pointe 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z

It is a bold theatrical experiment, with the performers lighted behind the movie screen as a way of making performance part of a screening, something that irks cineastes like my colleague Kenneth Turan. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

But diversity in Hollywood isn’t just about black artists and performers in Hollywood. “Yellow people with tiny dongs”?: The Oscars have more than one diversity problem — and it shows 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

Ms. Salonga is a performer whose formidable talent is matched by her unstoppable drive and keen intelligence. Music Review: Lea Salonga at the Café Carlyle 2013-05-24T20:50:52Z

And, despite his departure into unfamiliar and perhaps discomfiting territory, the audiences are still queuing round the block to see one of Edinburgh's favourite performers. Simon Callow leaves familiar territory behind in one-man Edinburgh show 2011-08-07T14:42:00Z

Largely advertised through word of mouth, the space became home to frequent performance parties, during which audience members would crowd into one of the three studios, drinks in hand, around a small clearing for performers. Up on the Roof, Flesh and Blood Dancers Move and Connect 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z

I'm still finding my feet in many ways as a performer. Hozier: 'I find the attention quite jarring at times' 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

Neither netted a statue at their respective awards ceremonies, but given the track record it was reasonable to expect the pop performer's third major TV feature to get at least a nomination for something. Anatomy of a shutout: Why the Emmys snub Beyoncé despite her continuing to innovate on TV 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

So it comes as a surprise - it shouldn't but it does - to hear the British performer renounce evil. Malfoy actors talk good, evil as Potter saga ends 2011-07-07T11:55:08Z

Even if that part of the sketch felt forced, it was nice to see the performers get some recognition. The Best and Worst Moments of the 2018 Emmys 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

The impersonator of Dalida, one of the most beloved of all French performers who killed herself at 54, by contrast, performed live. | The King of Gay Paree 2013-04-22T16:07:39Z

And her triple mastery of words, music and moves is unmatched by any performer on Broadway at the moment. | 'Anything Goes': A Glimpse of Stocking? Shocking! 2011-04-08T02:01:03Z

Five thousand people attend the Lunar New Year celebrations each year, and Chinatown Plaza’s parking lot is packed with performers and food vendors. Chinatown Revisited 2014-01-24T21:02:02Z

It is no longer a question whether young performers will be able to find a historically informed group to join, but rather which they will choose from among their many options. Music in Review 2011-05-09T22:30:48Z

The Music Center of Los Angeles has announced its 2015-16 dance season, a diverse lineup whose range can be conveyed by just one of the performers on the list: the Second City comedy troupe. Music Center dance lineup for 2015-16: Second City, hip-hop, Ratmansky 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

In concert, Mr. Russell also excelled at interpreting songs by other rock performers, including his medley of the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and the Coasters’ “Young Blood.” Leon Russell, musician and hit songwriter, dies at 74 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

The first performances in May brought together massed forces of over 350 performers. How Dorset's 1000-year-old Viking bones inspired my new oratorio 2012-07-11T17:41:33Z

Photograph: Tabatha Fireman/Redferns A classic image of a summer music festival is a grinning woman perched precariously on someone's shoulders, but rarely will there be a female performer looking back at her. Glastonbury is better than most – but it's still a sausage fest 2013-06-26T14:57:11Z

Increasingly, as a performer, whether on stage or in a press interview or on a TV show, you are just participating in a system that is essentially about entertaining, but never changing anything. Massive Attack meet Adam Curtis: the unlikely double act 2013-06-29T23:05:27Z

Employment contracts govern how they can be used in a particular film or commercial, while a performer's will can address broader issues. Actors seek posthumous protections after big-screen resurrections 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

The exhibition includes Edouard Manet’s depiction of commedia dell’arte characters, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s cabaret performers, and Marc Chagall’s sets and costumes for the Moscow State Yiddish Theater. From 12th Century B.C. to 2017, Art in Startling Variety 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Making the film was an emotional but necessary experience for Husari and his performers, who were witnesses to and victims of the attack, and not trained actors. Young filmmaker aims to tell besieged Syrians' story 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Each performer plays two songs, but other musicians often pile onto the stage as backup and added chaos. Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World

Ms. Lorring went on to a career as a stage, screen and television performer. Joan Lorring, Oscar-nominated actress from ‘The Corn Is Green’ and other films, dies at 88

She, along with more than 500 performers who have come out against the bill, says it will hurt the industry it is ostensibly meant to protect. “Performative sex is utterly different from private sex”: A porn star takes on the California State Capitol 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

But it’s a testament to the seductive hold of this production that even onstage, amid performers I’d been watching from a comfortable distance, I could forget my embarrassment and focus on them. Theater Review: ‘The Suit’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-21T23:45:57Z

Predictably, several of the previous weekend's weaker performers fell hard. Mr and Mr Smith: After Earth tops UK box office 2013-06-12T11:09:05Z

Both performers were represented by the same agent, he noted, adding,“if we can’t trust agents, who can we trust?” Kimmel leads Oscar celebration of gender equality, artistic diversity 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

The respect for traditional music that allows an artist to interpret it seems to connect old-time performers, no matter their age. Country Times: Young artists doing traditional country proud 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

He always lets the performer do the special effects in the camera. Keegan-Michael Key Reaches into the Past With ‘Midnight Run’ and ‘Electric Ladyland’ 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

Super Bowl performers have come to understand that the imperfections of their live performances will be online forever; they have calculated more and canned more of the music. Coldplay and Beyoncé Hope to Match Past Spectacles at Super Bowl Halftime Show 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

“It’s the quintessential listening room,” Monte King, a veteran Bluebird performer, told me before showtime. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

With hisses, murmurs and thumps resounding from French-horn players, trombonists and percussionists positioned throughout the theater, one performer, Matthew Gold, rolled a large metal wheel around the stage: slowly, deliberately and for aural effect. Music Review: Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Works at Columbia’s Miller Theater 2013-12-10T22:48:24Z

Without such formal structures, “Nirbhaya” would be close to unbearable for both the performers and their audience. Review: ‘Nirbhaya,’ a Lamentation and a Rallying Cry for Indian Women 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

His theater became one of the best-known in the Soviet Union and performers included the likes of musician and social commentator Vladimir Vysotsky. Russian theater director Lyubimov dies at 97 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Al Franken, the former Saturday Night Live writer and performer, is in the US Senate. No laughing matter: Comedians from Italy to the US are reforming politics 2013-03-04T16:09:27Z

The evening will benefit The Performing Arts Project, a non-profit that helps prepare the next generation of performers. Broadway stars to help The Performing Arts Project 2013-02-05T21:46:04Z

One piece, “Twin Cities,” which charted the stories of some Minnesota residents, was staged sporadically for a decade, outliving one of its performers; the man’s daughter stepped into the role to read her father’s words. Ping Chong Delivers a New Set of Undesirable Elements Plays 2012-10-14T01:30:01Z

In the London Daily Herald newspaper, in 1936, a columnist described a performer who “before she can go on set to play a scene has to have violin and guitar play mood music.” What Makes a Diva? 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

In fact, her spontaneous subtlety, the passing of emotions through her with a minimal outward display, is among the qualities that put her at the forefront of her generation’s performers. Review: “Personal Shopper” and the Misunderstood Art of Kristen Stewart 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Seventeen songs will be performed at each show, with one or two more depending on the guest performer. Beyond ‘Rent’: 4 Glimpses of the Unheard Jonathan Larson 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. van Hove and his team of ardent performers never step outside this current of tortured self-regard. Review: ‘The Fountainhead,’ High-Tech, Juicy and Full of Pulp 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

Fans shot portraits with performers playing in the background. Coachella 2015: Digital witnesses and the tyranny of the smartphone 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

A series of portraits of New York drag performers, men for whom surface appearances — the way they made up their faces — carried real personal and political weight, are searing. Summer Art Trek: Gallery Hopping in the Hudson Valley 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

In the film, Patel proves himself to be an affable singer and performer. A Beatles expert on "Yesterday": Is Danny Boyle's jukebox fantasy worthy of the Fab Four? 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z

The scholarship is being awarded by Off the Lane, a mentorship program for young performers moving to New York. Scholarship created to honor choreographer Ann Reinking 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

But given just how many talented musical theater performers there are out there—and in the cast!—it was perplexing to find the center of the story so bland. “Grease: Live”‘s technical triumph: A dazzling production almost makes up for lackluster leads 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

It’s ridiculous to think I, or any individual voter, is going to vote for a performer because he’s white or black or whatever. Readers Respond: Oscars So White? Or Oscars So Dumb? 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Kerry Brogan, an actress from Newton, Massachusetts, who plays the lead character's British girlfriend, is one of dozens of foreign performers on Chinese TV, recruited to appeal to increasingly worldly audiences. Chinese screen reaches out for more foreign actors 2010-06-16T06:46:00Z

For years he played a late-night set on Saturday nights at Smoke; this weekend he returns to the club as the featured performer, leading a quintet in a tribute to Thelonious Monk. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

Motion-capture performer Terry Notary trained the stars and stuntmen playing primates in “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” opening Friday. Go ape: Find your inner primate in 4 easy steps 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

That was such big emotional revelation for me as a performer to get that honest. Margaret Cho on How to Make a Responsible Caitlyn Jenner Joke 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z

Yet losing Mack, an electrifying performer, is not a good sign. Review | Questions swirl around Washington Ballet with guest artists and loss of Brooklyn Mack 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

This “Salesman” is noteworthy because the four members of the Loman family are all played by black actors, while the other key roles are played by white performers. Wendell Pierce: ‘I Still Have Fear, But Now I Have Courage’ 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The audience, in other words, had to pay attention because Professor Sandel, one of Harvard’s star performers, had a raft of questions ready to lob from the stage. Money and Morals Sharing the Stage With Shakespeare 2013-06-18T21:31:46Z

As you'd expect from a performer who started in theatre, with the clownish outfit Population 3, Montgomery appears as a collection of broadly drawn characters. Lucy Montgomery 2010-09-21T21:01:00Z

Given the demographics of theater audiences — even for a genre-bending and gender-obliterating performer like Mr. Mac — much squeezing is necessary; the suburbs are more crowded than the shantytowns. Taylor Mac’s ‘A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,’ 1930s-1950s 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Offscreen, African-American dancers trained white performers; onscreen, the blues and jazz filled soundtracks and white stars like Astaire and Shirley Temple appeared in blackface. Escape With Me Into the Delirious World of 1940s Musicals 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Everyone is encouraged to dress casually — even the performers. No tuxes, just relaxing classical music in Quilcene 2011-06-23T22:06:07Z

While some of the performers stuck to the simple on-the-couch aesthetic — including Dave Matthews, whose delicate falsetto over the acoustic “Mercy” felt like tiptoeing across a frozen lake — others were more intricate. Review: All In WA makes virtual concerts fun again, raising $48 million and counting for coronavirus relief 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

But Leonardo DiCaprio, who has starred in five of Scorsese’s features, said that the director’s cinephilia never causes him to lose sight of what his performers need. Martin Scorsese Is Letting Go 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Liza Minnelli called the veteran performer "a magnificent woman in every sense of the word... her talent and spunk will be greatly missed". Tributes paid to stage star Stritch 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

There was a circus performer in a feathered bird costume, hidden in the church ceiling. Experience: I’m a world-class whistler 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

But the truth is this singular performer is really better at strafing our unsatisfactory world with rage than at pushing self-empowerment. Review: Too Many Cupcake Shops, Says Penny Arcade 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Not normally an on-stage performer, Michaels recalls the Mark Twain evening as “mostly nerve-wracking” because he spent the evening dreading the traditional end-of-night speech he had to deliver. Bette Midler, Berry Gordy among new Kennedy Center honorees 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

She graduated with a degree in English in the early 90s, and spent most of her 20s trying unsuccessfully to get back to the happiness of being a student performer. Rachel Weisz: 'My parents were refugees. Brexit feels like a death' 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

They felt comfortably challenged by his methods, and inspired by his way of breaking down cosmically difficult matters of interpretion into a series of winnable wars for the performer, and satisfaction for the audience. Mike Nichols, directorial superstar with an eye for the 'real thing' 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The two performers will blend dance, show tunes and more. Spare Times Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Lisa Goldberg, a publicist who represents actors in Broadway, television and film, said of the discussions she has when a performer is asked to appear nude. With Cameras on Every Phone, Will Broadway’s Nude Scenes Survive? 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

It's cheap, but it's always cheerful – both for the giggling performers, and an audience giddied into willing submission. Jigsaw ? review 2011-08-22T17:00:08Z

The musical world has lost a great performer whose skill in the flamenco style will probably never be matched. Guitar great Paco de Lucia dies 2014-02-26T17:48:04Z

"The web is really important to me as a performer," says Kudrow. Lisa Kudrow forges diverse post "Friends" career 2010-04-22T19:25:00Z

The performer offered to introduce Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to members of the gay community earlier this year to show the impact of "deeply divisive" legislation. Sir Elton John: Jesus would have supported gay marriage 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

As Riley realises, the performers once seen by a rapt public as "nature's marvels" are now viewed as "nature's aberrations". Futureproof - review 2011-08-18T16:47:24Z

Under the direction of Davis McCallum, who also staged the premiere production in 2011 at Hartford Stage, the play’s fine performers breathe richly felt life into their roles. Theater Review: ‘Water by the Spoonful,’ at the Second Stage Theater 2013-01-09T03:00:00Z

Amy Clark’s costumes had sparkle, too, though they made a lot of the performers look like the villains in ’80s cartoons. Review: The Big Apple Circus Is Ripe for Another Bite 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

The performers, who are basically a singing duo, are a near unclassifiable act with their sharp fusion of stand-up comedy and naughty songs, which come layered with film projections and bizarre and wonderful costumes. This week's new dance 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

She’s an intense, intent performer, but not averse to small bursts of humor. Music Review: Glasser at Warm Up Series at MoMA P.S. 1 2010-07-04T21:49:00Z

The new vaccine eligibility rules allowed the Met Opera to welcome back some of its youngest performers: the members of its children’s chorus who are under 12. Arts Groups Bet Big on Holiday Programming. Will Children Come? 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

“If someone can say, ‘I see myself in you when you’re playing Little Red’ — when I’m standing on a Broadway stage — that’s exactly why I’m an actor and a performer.” Julia Lester on Her ‘More Knowing’ Little Red Riding Hood 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

We handicap our favorite composers and performers, we buy 20 recordings of the same piece just to be able to argue about interpretations. The Score: A Pitch for New Music 2011-05-11T22:38:37Z

Children get sure-footed guides to the world of dance at these programs, which always conclude with question-and-answer sessions with the performers. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Thousands of performers have come to the same conclusion in the nearly 40 years since that late-night epiphany. James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson Lay Their Cards on the Table 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

Others performers shared the image across social media. Reggaeton acts call out Latin Grammys for lack of noms 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

The Circus show featured the group along with 50 circus performers and dancers who flew from trapezes and made up a human Ferris Wheel. Profile: Kim Gavin 2012-08-10T07:09:19Z

She has the most wins of any performer for the same role in the same series. Julia Louis-Dreyfus accepts the Twain Prize: ‘Anybody would be lucky to be part of a night like this honoring someone like me’ 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

Gottsagen has been acting in amateur plays since he was a child, inspired by Grease and Hairspray, with a striking gift as a performer. 'It was like lighting yourself on fire': how Shia LaBeouf's co-star changed his life 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

"Geek" arrived in English from Low German, in which a geck denoted a crazy person; in travelling circuses, the geek show traditionally involved a performer biting off the heads of live chickens. The 10 best words the internet has given English 2013-04-17T09:19:32Z

Girl power of a different kind, as actors' union Equity expressed their concerns over the lack of roles for female performers in the current main stage season at Hampstead Theatre. Seven days on stage: Spice Girls go west and Pudsey trains for panto 2012-06-29T13:11:14Z

With "Super Night Shot," the performers carefully synchronize their 60 minutes of filming to end with their grand entrance initiating "the show." Gob Squad jesters reel in REDCAT audience with mixed results 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z

Despite this emphasis on history, critics are not satisfied with Mr. Bailey’s explanation that he is exposing racism, particularly because he is white, and the black performers remain mute. ‘Exhibit B,’ a Work About Human Zoos, Stirs Protests 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Poehler knew early on she wanted to be a performer, and she worked hard to become one. Amy Poehler memoir 'Yes Please' is smart, funny, a little messy 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

It never manages to impress in quite the way performers think it will. RuPaul’s Drag Race: 10 best moments of TV’s most fabulous reality show 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

To be a Black performer in country, especially in the throes of the civil rights era, when Pride was getting his footing, was to put yourself on the line. What Country Music Asked of Charley Pride 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

Known as “the glorious Gertie,” and considered by many to be the first international superstar, she was a great performer rather than a great singer. Mark Morris, taking a lyrical turn​ 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

The question is: do readers expect their writers to be performers too? The public role of the private writer 2010-08-11T09:31:00Z