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The candelabras were the tell. Before a single look walked The Georgia Room on September 11, the runway had been lined with tall gold candlesticks dripping ivory wax, dead black branches rising out of gilded urns and pale fringe hanging off the walls like moss off a tree that stopped growing years ago. White drapery everywhere. It read as a wedding and a funeral at the same t...

The elephant is the first thing everyone asks about, so start there. Rosie, the circus’s star attraction in Sara Gruen’s novel, walks onto the stage as a full-sized puppet on the stage of water for elephants, a patchwork-skinned animal the he...

Chekhov wrote Ivanov in 1887, at twenty-seven, working fast and it was his first full-length play, which means it carries everything the later masterpieces learned to hide. Nobody stages it. For every production of The Seagull or Uncle Vanya an American city sees, Ivanov gets maybe a footnote, because the play is about a man whose defining quality is that he cannot make himse...

Review of Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo reached for Sweeney Todd, and one pan ran under the headline that she’s no Sweeney Todd, and I think that comparison was lazy the first time and got lazier with repetition. Sweeney is a revenge tragedy about one man curdling into a monster. The Giulia Tofana story, whatever else

Randhawa Brands shows on Saturday, September 12 at 7:00 PM at Sony Hall in Midtown. The category is eveningwear and gowns. The show is part of Runway 7’s September season, which runs September 8 to 13 with 138 designers from 20 countries. Nothing about the new collection has been released yet, no theme, no lookbook, so what follows is the confirmed details plus a look at what...