Although artists and critics are hardly natural allies, a vigorous public discourse about theater — and that necessarily means an assessment of its quality — is vital to the health of the art form that supports them both.
In a program presented by his company, Nicholas Andre Dance Theater, at Ailey Citigroup Theater on Friday night, his attraction to athletic prowess was on vigorous display.
When I learned that the revived and vigorous company of the Dance Theater of Harlem was among the celebrated performances on the International anniversary program, I knew I had to be in the audience.
"The theater-going tradition remains vigorous throughout England," Mr. Panter said, "and we believe that Ambassador Theater Group now has a scale where we can create partnerships that would easily move shows from the best regional theaters in America to our best regional and West End theaters in Britain".
Accordingly, Karin Coonrod, the vigorous and imaginative director of this production for Theater for a New Audience, has provided an evening of energetic, stylized carnage and double-dealing kept at a cynical remove.
Now the multicultural city is more like a Milan beyond Europe, the art and design capital of Australia,with a vigorous cultural life, imaginative and prolific in architecture, theater, music and the visual arts.
By this last production, a huge commercial success, it was evident that he had become an exceptional theater director, and his manager, the vigorous, abrasive young agent Paul Gregory, determined that the time was ripe for Laughton to direct on film.
At the Ted Shawn Theater, Grupo Corpo will be putting its usual vigorous spin on dance that blends ballet and Latin rhythms.
Brawny flavors and seasonal ingredients mark the vigorous French country cooking of Scott Jacobson, formerly with René Pujol in the Theater District of Manhattan.
The Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's current production in Madison offers a vigorous rendition of the play adapted by Neil Bartlett in 2004 from Dickens's enduring 1838 novel about an orphaned boy.
