A flat cake of yellowfin tuna tartare, draped with a necklace of thinly sliced cucumber, is theatrically presented on a huge plate scattered with confettilike bits of bright yellow and red bell pepper.
That's what we're always being told by the French, anyhow, and it's the biggest problem with this new venture from the Torrisi team, who are referred to as "boys" in the food press and have built an empire on theatrically presented and audaciously priced red-sauce favorites, at Carbone and Parm.
Soba-Ya, which specializes in noodles, is a few steps from Robataya, where meat and vegetables are theatrically grilled and presented to customers on long wooden oars.
Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
The film features the voices of William Squire, John Hurt, Michael Graham Cox, and Anthony Daniels of Star Wars fame, and was one of the first animated films to be presented theatrically in the Dolby Stereo sound system.
DOWNSTAIRS from the Main Stage at Theater Three in Port Jefferson is a smaller, cabaret-style open space in which shows geared to a more theatrically sophisticated audience are presented.
This Belgian doyenne of the theatrically abstract will present "Drumming," set to the Steve Reich score, performed live by the Ictus percussion ensemble.
Mr. Glass and Mr. Fain will play a recital of Mr. Glass's music, with the composer at the piano (June 20 to 21), and the theatrically inclined Ethel will present two programs — "Documerica," a multimedia work that explores Americans' relationship with the earth, from an urban and rural perspective (April 11) and Ethel+, in which the ensemble will collaborate with Nashville musicians (April 12).
The two pieces these Tokyo-based performers presented at the American Dance Festival on Thursday night at Page Auditorium here were theatrically big and bold and filled not only with the requisite angst but with dark, teasing humor.
"Approaching a City," a new solo to be repeated on Thursday through Sunday as part of a Sean Curran Company season presented by Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, shows him in a theatrically sly mode.
These touring works can be best understood through theatrically defined cultural locations (e.g., a French Japanese Richard II in Paris and on tour, a "culturally neutral" Richard III made in Beijing but presented in Berlin) rather than through political boundaries (e.g., when "Shakespeare in India" is used as unproductive shorthand for literary universalism).
