I just loved the play The Rainmaker so much and I loved Audra as a performer so much so I thought I'd just go in.
The gesture can mean a great deal to performers -- so much so that they've been known to actively solicit it.
But all these cavils are nearly beside the point, because the performers are so much fun to watch and because Mathias, in particular, is a well-drawn, unexpected character.
It remains for the performers not so much to propel it as to make it glow, and that happened here, thanks to a careful attention to the dynamics, to a feeling of partnership within the ensemble, and to the players' maintaining their concentration right through to the closing section.
Still, Mr. Albán, energetic and intense, wins you over as a performer, never so much as when he's singing.
I'm not really interested in the "DJ as performer" as so much.
Aside from the antics of Justin Bieber, I can't recall the last time a male performer generated so much instant publicity for a passion project as Nick Jonas did last week for the new DirecTV series Kingdom (and his upcoming solo album) by stripping down and grabbing his junk.
How can the dogged optimism of the impoverished men and women in "Blues Suite" be understood, Mr. Chaya asked rhetorically, by performers who have so much more?
Dressed in silvery gray leggings and, for the women, tops (designed by Zhong Jiani) and lighted by Mr. Han's theatrical, steam-enhanced design, the performers resembled nothing so much as a gymnastics team at the Art Olympics.
But here, a campaign to create home-grown hip-hop performers is, like so much in China, the product of scientific planning, government intervention, expert input, and, of course, tests.
