If you’re watching a slew of ballet dancers alternate between explosive technical feats and highly nuanced “real people” movement, with iconic rock music blasting, there’s a good chance that Trey McIntyre is in the room. Most recently, this room happened to be at Houston Ballet, the very place that nurtured his early life as a […]

The closing months of the 2016–17 season brought a glut of extraordinary music and dance to Broadway’s stages, and the superabundance has left 2017–18 looking a bit anemic. Partly it’s real estate—there are only so many Broadway theaters; in June, nearly three dozen were occupied. The only musical scheduled to open this summer was Prince […]

Songwriter and heralded misfit David Bowie died on Sunday at age 69 after an 18-month battle with cancer. The world didn’t just lose a musician who transcended many genres, it lost a performer who transcended many stages and forms. Bowie helped make music a performance art, and carried that collaborative spirit through to much of […]