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A man lunges downward hovering over his female dance partner as she arches back toward his face.

News of Note: What You Might Have Missed in May 2023

Here are the latest promotions, appointments, and departures, as well as notable awards and accomplishments, from May 2023.

Courtney Escoyne June 2nd, 2023

New York, New York cast members Clyde Alves, Akina Kitazawa and Ashley Blair Fitzgerald pose together against a white backdrop. Alves raises one foot to parallel passé, arms curling across his chest and overhead as he smirks over his shoulder. Fitzgerald stands with a beveled foot, smiling over her shoulder in his direction as she sits into her hip. Between them, Kitazawa gives a close-mouthed smile to the camera, bent knees knocking together in an exaggeratedly cutesy pose, one hand at her chin and the other stretching down toward her knees. All three wear varied black outfits that wouldn't be out of place in a jazz class.

Susan Stroman and Her Team Put the “New” in New York, New York, Reimagining the Movie for Broadway Today

With Susan Stroman in charge of the new stage musical, opening this month at the St. James Theatre, the dancing will be front and center. Like Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse before her, she’s a director-choreographer who should really be called a choreographer-director.

Sylviane Gold March 16th, 2023