The Cultural Scene
A Night at Norwood: 'NY Export: Opus Jazz'
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.
A Digitally Enhanced 'Sunday in the Park with George'
"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.
Theater as a Forum for Intellectual Debate? How British.
"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.
Divas on Divans Celebrate a New Novel Set in the Seraglio
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.
