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A High-Seas Show With Gay Family Values

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 4:51am GMT by By ARIEL KAMINER

Rosie O’Donnell and friends take a trip on the good ship Mom and Pop.

Arts, Briefly: Couric to Stay at CBS, for Now

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 4:51am GMT by By BILL CARTER

CBS News and Katie Couric have “no plans to part company anytime soon,” Ms. Couric, the “CBS Evening News” anchor, said on Friday.

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Theater Review | 'Eh Joe': Words Fail Him, but Memories Can’t Be Silenced

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 4:27am GMT by By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Although it lasts just half an hour, this staging of a Beckett piece is one of the most wholly satisfying nights I’ve spent at the theater this year.

Wistful Singer, Jo Stafford, Is Dead at 90

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 4:19am GMT by By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Jo Stafford was the wistful singing voice of the American home front during World War II and the Korean War.

Bridge: A Player Much Too Alert for the Psychological Coup

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:56am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER

The Summer North American Bridge Championships of the American Contract Bridge League started on Thursday in the Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas.

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Music Review | La Traviata: Verdi’s Violetta Amplified for a Picnic in the Park

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:42am GMT by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER

If part of the aim of free concerts is to lure new listeners, the New York Grand Opera Company’s performance on Wednesday surely won a few new devotees.

Television Review | 'Avatar: The Last Airbender': Though Raised by Pacifists, Destined to Battle for Peace

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:35am GMT by By SUSAN STEWART

In “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” a bald adolescent with a lisp strives to save the world from the evil Firelord.

Music Review | Jeffrey Swann: A Time to Play and a Time to Talk

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:31am GMT by By ALLAN KOZINN

Jeffrey Swann’s program on Thursday was called “Music of Ghost Stories, the Fantastic, the Bizarre.”

Dance Review | Dance Out!: Art Amid Sprinklers and Seals

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:28am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

Dance Out! showcased three artists on Wednesday night who took setting into careful consideration.

Music Review | Yaz: Return of a Precursor, Still Fast and Chilly

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:23am GMT by By JON CARAMANICA

The short-lived British electro-pop duo Yaz made its way back into the spotlight during a concert Thursday night at Terminal 5.

Dance Review | Royal Ballet of Flanders: Dizzying History, With Many Schoolgirls

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:16am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS

“Impressing the Czar” smells like teen spirit: it’s neither earth-shattering nor horrid, but it is a bit like being caught in a time warp.

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Art Review | ‘After Nature’: Sometimes the Darkest Visions Boast the Blackest Humor

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:11am GMT by By KEN JOHNSON

“After Nature,” the big new show at the New Museum, is a strange, lugubrious, wildly uneven dream of an exhibition.

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Theater Review | 'Scenes From an Execution,' 'Crave' and 'Somewhere in the Pacific': Hearts and Minds at War in a Triple Bill of Plays

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 3:10am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER

The Potomac Theater Project puts on three plays during its summer residency at Atlantic Stage 2.

Music Review | DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist: Sound-Collage Partners, Mixing Stunts and Spirit

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 2:52am GMT by By NATE CHINEN

DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist have carved out an unusual niche together over the last decade, as sound collagists strictly devoted to the spinning of original-pressing 45s.

Arts, Briefly: A Record Sale for Beatrix Potter

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 2:47am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

An original watercolor illustration by the children’s author Beatrix Potter has set an auction record for a book illustration, BBC News reported.

Arts, Briefly: Footnotes

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 2:47am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

The Japanese avant-rock group the Boredoms plans a kind of reprise of “77BoaDrum,” a composition for 77 drummers that it performed in Brooklyn last July 7 (that is, 7/7/07). This time it’s all about the eights: At 8:08 p.m., Pacific time, on Aug. 8 (8/8/08), the band will play — what else — “88BoaDrum” with 88 drummers at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. The same day, the band Gang Gang Dance will lead a version of the piece on the Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn at 8:08 p.m., Eastern time ... The New York Festival of Song has announced its 2008-09 season. The program opens Sept. 23 with a celebration of Leonard Bernstein and William Bolcom at the newly renovated Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center ... Stockard Channing and Martha Plimpton have joined the cast of the Roundabout Theater Company’s production of “Pal Joey” ... Gwen Stewart will return to “Rent.” The actress, who played several roles in the original musical, will reprise those roles starting on July 21 and through the show’s Broadway closing on Sept. 7.

Arts, Briefly: The Sound of Musical

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 2:46am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

“Musical,” a 48-minute film of New Yorkers bursting into song by Dara Friedman, will be screened outdoors for one night only on Tuesday at 8:30 at Riverside Park South.

Arts, Briefly: Yusuf Islam Wins Libel Damages

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 2:45am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

Yusuf Islam, the folk singer once known as Cat Stevens, has won unspecified libel damages and an apology from the World Entertainment News Network.

Arts, Briefly: The Dark Knight Owns Midnight

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 2:45am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

“The Dark Knight” earned an estimated $18.5 million in gross revenue at its 12 a.m. opening screenings early Friday morning at 3,040 screens.

Arts, Briefly: Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed Onstage

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 2:44am GMT by Compiled by JULIE BLOOM

The performance artist Laurie Anderson and her husband, the rocker Lou Reed, will perform together on Tuesday night for the first time in New York as husband and wife.

Arts, Briefly: Dance Helps Fox Lead

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 2:44am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF

An hourlong results episode of “So You Think You Can Dance” drew 8.2 million viewers on Thursday to help push Fox into first place for the night’s ratings, according to Nielsen’s estimates.