Topic: Diane Paulus

The “new” show on Broadway is officially labelled The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. It ain't necessarily so. In the first place, this also happens to...

'Porgy and Bess'

The immensely satisfying Porgy and Bess that opened in a Broadway revival Thursday night is not your grandma's P&B. In a controversial makeover...
If you were following Broadway news yesterday, you might have noticed two seemingly unrelated headlines. The producers of "On a Clear Day You Can...

Sincere, sassy and shaggy

0 . Hair: Musical. By Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Galt MacDermot. Directed by Diane Paulus. Through Nov. 20. $31-$95. Golden Gate Theatre, 1 Taylor...

'Hair' remains forever young

0 . When it opened 44 years ago, "Hair" meant to set the world's hair on fire. Its characters, as the ecstatic liner notes from the original...

The Odd Couple and Hair

J. Fred Shiffman's Felix Unger still bustles about maddeningly, once he's gotten the boot at home and moved into Oscar's eight-room Manhattan place. And Rick Foucheux's Oscar, now that the wife and kids have decamped to California, is ...

'The Capeman' gets a new hearing

A comeback for "The Capeman," Paul Simon's controversial 1998 Broadway flop, was about the last thing on pianist Oscar Hernández's mind, but his...

Il Mondo della Luna

Three years ago, TONY heralded the age of avant-nerdism. Devouring everything from Jean Baptiste Lully to John Adams, opsters have swelled in number thanks to another darling trend: The perennially promising Gotham Chamber Opera does just that starting on Tuesday 19 by ...

Hair

Thought they were safely quarantined in Central Park? Directed with tireless inventiveness and intensity by Diane Paulus and groovily choreographed by Karole Armitage, Hair speaks to a new generation faced with unpopular wars and a cynical society. The lovable Gavin Creel makes ...

It's an opera mash-up

When American director Diane Paulus flew in from the States last month, the passport official asked her what she was doing here. "I'm staging a new opera," Paulus began brightly. Paulus, 40, a warm, sparky, half-Japanese New Yorker, is here to ...