Copyright 2008 The New York Sun Thu, 7 Feb 2008 01:53:37 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.nysun.com/blogs/the-cultural-scene webmaster@nysun.com en-us Kate Taylor http://www.nysun.com/blogs/the-cultural-scene/2008/02/a-night-at-norwood-ny-export-opus.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/the-cultural-scene/2008/02/a-night-at-norwood-ny-export-opus.html Thu, 7 Feb 2008 01:53:37 EST Musicians, filmmakers, and dancers descended last evening on Norwood, a new social club on West 14th Street, for a sneak preview of "NY Export: Opus Jazz," a film of Jerome Robbins's 1958 urban ballet. Erica Orden wrote in the Sun last year about the film, which was the brainchild of two New York City Ballet dancers, Sean Suozzi and Ellen Bar. The evening was hosted by the pop singer and pianist Vanessa Carlton. The small crowd at the 7 o'clock screening included the actress Julia Stiles, as Kate Taylor http://www.nysun.com/blogs/the-cultural-scene/2008/02/a-digitally-enhanced-sunday-in-the.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/the-cultural-scene/2008/02/a-digitally-enhanced-sunday-in-the.html Thu, 7 Feb 2008 01:44:16 EST "Sunday in the Park with George" contains some of Stephen Sondheim's most heart-wrenchingly beautiful music. But audiences at the new revival of "Sunday," an import from London that opens February 21, will likely leave marveling at the beauty of the digitally animated set design. The first act of "Sunday" revolves around the creation of George Seurat's masterpiece, "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte." The designers of the original 1984 production conjured the progress from blank canvas to fully Kate Taylor http://www.nysun.com/blogs/the-cultural-scene/2008/01/theater-as-a-forum-for.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/the-cultural-scene/2008/01/theater-as-a-forum-for.html Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:56:00 EST "A serious house on serious earth." This is how Philip Larkin describes a place of worship in his poem "Church Going," which plays a pivotal role in "Grace," the new play by Mick Gordon and A.C. Grayling that is in previews at MCC Theater. To Mr. Gordon, a wunderkind of the London stage world, it is the theater that is — or should be — this "serious house." Mr. Gordon was previously an associate director at London's National Theatre and the artistic director of the Gate Theatre. Now he runs a Kate Taylor http://www.nysun.com/blogs/the-cultural-scene/2008/01/divas-on-divans-celebrate-a-new.html http://www.nysun.com/blogs/the-cultural-scene/2008/01/divas-on-divans-celebrate-a-new.html Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:52:00 EST The British novelist Katie Hickman was in town last night to promote her historical novel, "The Aviary Gate," which Bloomsbury is hoping will be one of the summer's bestsellers. The novel is set in 16th-century Constantinople, where a visiting British merchant learns that the woman he once loved, and believed had died in a shipwreck, was in fact captured by pirates and sold into the sultan's harem. Style and strong drinks being more important than precise geography, the party was held in a