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Illinoise, Justin Peck’s narrative dance musical inspired by Sufjan Stevens’s concept album “Illinois,” opened in New York City on March 7, 2024 at the Park Avenue Armory. In making it a "Critic’s Pick," Jesse Green, theatre critic of The New York Times, called the production — with a story (without dialogue) by Jackie Sibblies Drury and Peck — “deeply moving.” Photos by Sara Krulwich
#illinoise#sufjan stevens#justin peck#jackie sibblies drury#new york park avenue armory#dance choreography#dancers
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TEFAF NEW YORK 2023
New York City offre l’ambiente ideale per una fiera TEFAF fuori Maastricht giunta alla sua ottava edizione.
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On Saturday, the show, which had a quiet staging last year at Bard College in New York, will officially open in Chicago, complete with a first exposure to press reviews, before heading to the Park Avenue Armory in New York and, the team hopes, other high-profile stages beyond that. In the tradition of music-musicals that honor a singular artist, it is built around “Illinois,” the album, part of Stevens’s ambitious 50 states project, which he abandoned after two records.
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THE FRIDAY PIC (admittedly a day late) is a tremendous 1946 photomontage by Lotte Jacobi — one of the so-called "photogenics" she started making in New York after World War II, a decade after her flight from Nazi Germany. I saw it in the Bruce Silverstein booth at the AIPAD "Photography Show" at the Park Avenue armory, where it filled a good chunk of a wall, and will through fair's end tomorrow. (Silverstein didn't know quite why Jacobi would have made the huge print or where she might have shown it.)
Unlike similar works that came out of prewar Germany, this one seems less interested in revealing its fractures than hiding them; it doesn't pull the world apart so much as rebuild it into a new and fantastical and quite photographic reality. If it was meant to represent a musical moment, it's less Schoenberg than Weill — or maybe it's all about Ellington, in one of the Carnegie Hall compositions he had just started writing. The soprano sax seems right for that.
Throughout the fair, I was struck by how its vintage images, from any of photography's first 150 years, seemed wildly more compelling than anything more recent. I think that's because the concept of "fine-art photography" that structures the fair only makes sense retrospectively. Bring it into the current era, and it simply falls apart. Today's most serious photography only makes sense set into the larger art conversation; if it can't sit there, I wonder how serious it really is.
It ends up looking backward toward a conversation that is basically over.
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Katharine McPhee attends the Hot Pink Party hosted by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation at Park Avenue Armory on May 15, 2019 in New York City.
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Happy birthday Scottish actor Jimmy Yuill, born March 6th 1956 in Golspie, Sutherland.
Yuill is another of those Scottish actors that has been in an abundance of shows, and will be known, but not as a household name.Fans of the Crime drama series Wycliffe will know him best as DI Doug Kersey, in almost every episode, I will come back to that later.
Known mainly as an actor on the stage Jimmy began in 1976 in The Jesuit at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. After, as he put it “some joyous years” working on new plays and classics countrywide he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in 1983, as Snug in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ended his time there, in 1987, as Young Wackford Squeers in Nicholas Nickleby on Broadway.
In 1988 he joined Kenneth Branagh’s Renaissance Theatre Company for Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Hamlet directed by Judi Dench, Geraldine McEwan and Derek Jacobi, respectively. Also for RTC, Sicinius (Coriolanus); Telygin (Uncle Vanya) and Kent in Richard Brier’s ‘King Lear’.
Other roles include Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and as Henry IV parts1&2 at the Bristol Old Vic; In 2013 Jimmy played Banquo in ‘Macbeth’ at the Manchester International Festival and the following year at the Park Avenue Armory, New York. Most recently Jimmy played the Old Shepherd in The Winters Tale at the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End – both productions directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh.
Jimmy Yuill, while always being busy treading the boards, has also found plenty time to appear in many TV shows, they include, in the 70’s The Mackinnons, The Omega Factor and the TV film A Sense of Freedom. in the 1980’s Eurocops and Boon and the 90’s mainly in Hamish Macbeth as Lachlan McCrae and the aforementioned Wycliffe. Into the new millennium he is a s busy as ever in the mini-series Monsignor Renard, A Touch of Frost and a recurring role in 14 episodes of Eastenders as Victor Brown an old frien of Ian Beales. Jimmy also appeared in several episodes of The Bill as D.S. Cottrell.
Yuill has had a longstanding friendship with Kenneth Branagh and has appeared in some of the Irish actor/directors films, including, Much Ado About Nothing, Frankenstien and As You Like It.
I said I would return to Wycliffe, where Jimmy starred in all but two episodes. The series was cancelled after that because Jack Shepherd, who played Wycliffe, refused to continue in the title role when the producers had sacked Yuill “for insurance reasons” after he contracted life-threatening meningitis during filming, and then would not reinstate him even though he made a full recovery. He says he owes his life to Shepherd with whom he was sharing a house while on location, and who rushed him to hospital in the middle of the night. Shepherd and the rest of the cast and crew felt so betrayed that they decided not to make any more episodes once filming of the current series had finished.
Along with Richard Briers he is one of only two actors other than Branagh himself, to appear in all five Shakespearean films that Branagh has directed: Yuill has worked as a performance consultant on a number of productions, and also as a producer.
More recently Jimmy has been in the movies Artemis Fowl , Kindred and my pick The Road Dance, which is set in The Outer Hebrides just before World War One. He also popped up in the Scottish dark comedy series Guilt, There are no pdates on his work in the past three years
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Mementos, memories, and musings on Mississippi.
Shelves lined with canned and pickled foods and the improvisational gospel music of his band, the Black Monks, are just two examples of the ways Theaster Gates Jr. shares his memories of childhood summers spent in Mississippi. The Double Wide (shown here), which the artist made using salvaged old materials from a barn in Indiana and pine flooring from New York’s Park Avenue Armory, represents an experience of dislocation while summoning the tastes, feelings, and sounds of the South.
Gates Jr.’s work in A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration creates a space for our physical and spiritual senses that preserves and summons the tastes, feelings, and sounds of the South.
See The Double Wide and more of the artist’s artwork in #GreatMigrationBkM through June 25.
📷 Theaster Gates Jr. (born Chicago, Illinois, 1973; based in Chicago, Illinois). The Double Wide, 2022. Spruce framing, armory flooring, metal roofing exterior, Mississippi reliquary, tar, pickled goods, bronze sculpture, two-channel video (color, sound): 6 min., 18 sec. and 2 min., 2 sec., dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Brooklyn Museum. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado) → Sara Pooley
#Brooklyn Museum#brooklyn#museum#art#exhibition#Theaster Gates Jr#GreatMigrationBkM#great migration#mississippi#artist
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Target 20th Anniversary Collection red carpet hosted by Livestream at Park Avenue Armory in New York City - September 5, 2019
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Marc Jacobs Spring 2020 Runway Show at Park Avenue Armory in New York City - September 11, 2019
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Marc Jacobs Spring 2020 Runway Show at Park Avenue Armory in New York City - September 11, 2019
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New York, Park Avenue Armory: TEFAF New York chiude tra fortissima affluenza, acquisizioni istituzionali e numerose vendite
TEFAF NEW YORK 2023
New York City, Park Avenue Armory
12–16 Maggio 2023
TEFAF New York offre ai propri visitatori un’esperienza fieristica unica grazie alla combinazione di opere moderne e contemporanee di qualità museale che dialogano con oggetti antichi, di gioielleria e di design. Considerata il principale evento per le belle arti, la Fiera ha attirato subito una nutrita folla a Park Avenue…
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Celebrity Sightings in New York City - September 13, 2017
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 13: Jessica Jung attends the Marc Jacobs fashion show at the Park Avenue Armory in the Upper East Side on September 13, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Gotham/GC Images)
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Photos from various concerts I've seen in New York City, not in chronological order. I'm just posting these bc I went back to a previous Photos app library on an external drive and saw a bunch that I haven't seen in a few years. Many / most of these were shot with first- or second-generation iPhone cameras, so they're blurry and hard to really see but I don't mind. From the top:
Patty Schemel, Eric Erlandson, and Melissa Auf Der Maur from Hole, standing outside a theater in the East Village that had just screened Patty's documentary about her life in the band. Not really a 'concert', but I'll allow it
Pavement in Central Park
Quasi, at the Bowery Ballroom
M. Ward show, Central Park
David Byrne, Radio City Music Hall
King Crimson, Madison Square Garden Theater (small venue adjacent to the bigger MSG)
Paul Simon, giving a free talk on songwriting at the Union Square Barnes & Noble
Line of fans along W16th Street to see an early Justin Bieber show at the Highland Ballroom (i did not attend that show but the very long line outside my apartment building surprised me in 2008 to snap that photo)
Foo Fighters at MSG
Waiting for Nick Lowe and Robyn Hitchcock at The Grand Ballroom
Waiting for Aimee Mann at the Town Hall
Outside St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn before the doors opened for a benefit concert featuring Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, Antony, Blonde Redhead, Scissor Sisters, Norah Jones, and Damien Rice
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, at the Park Avenue Armory during the Whitney Biennale
REM at MSG
Jackson Browne playing at a Borders Bookstore on the UES
Liz Phair at a club attached to the Maritime Hotel in Chelsea
Roxy Music at MSG
#pavement#quasi#m. ward#david byrne#king crimson#paul simon#foo fighters#nick low#robyn hitchcock#the voluptuous horror of karen black#kembra pfahler#rem#jackson browne#liz hair#roxy music
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Illinoise Opens on Broadway
“Illinoise,” a stage interpretation of Sufjan Stevens’ acclaimed 2005 album “Illinois,” is opening on Broadway today just six weeks after it opened at the Park Avenue Armory, and my reaction to it then counts as ironic now. I said that regular New York theatergoers might need to adjust their expectations, for two reasons: 1. It had already sold out its entire three-week run by the time my review…
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Katharine McPhee posing on the red carpet at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation's Hot Pink Party at the Park Avenue Armory I. New York on 15th May 2019
#katharine mcphee#kat mcphee#katherine mcphee#katharine foster#katharine mcphee foster#red carpet#breast cancer research#hot pink party#2019#celebrities#hot celebs#actress#singer
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‘ILLINOISE’ TO SQUEAK INTO 2023-24 SEASON
by Philip Boroff
Producers Orin Wolf and Greg Nobile are preparing to move the acclaimed dance piece Illinoise to the St. James Theater, packing another new musical into the busy 2023-24 season.
The transfer from the Park Avenue Armory — where Illinoise is scheduled to play its final, sold-out performance on March 26 — would be so quick that the show may not have time for previews on Broadway, industry sources said. To be eligible for Tony Awards this year, productions must open by April 25.
Based on its generally strong notices, Illinoise will be a formidable contender in a wide open awards season. According to a pitch prepared for prospective angels, it will be produced for $5 million — a bargain for a new musical — and capitalized for $6.5 million, which includes a $1.1 million financial reserve.
Should it achieve average weekly published box office grosses of about $1.1 million, it could recoup its production costs in ten weeks or less, assuming a $2.5 million tax credit from New York state, according to a preliminary recoupment table. (Recouping may vary from projections, of course, especially as the recoupment chart assumes a 1400-seat theater. The St. James has about 1700 seats.)
The piece was originally commissioned by the Fisher Center at Bard College and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, among others, and received nonprofit development funding from foundations and wealthy patrons. Directed and choreographed by Justin Peck, the resident choreographer of New York City Ballet, it’s inspired by and scored to the 2005 concept album Illinois by indie composer Sufjan Stevens. Peck was a teenager studying at the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center when the album was released and became deeply affected by it.
“It helped me understand the world and myself and my place in the world,” Peck said at a talkback March 14 at the Armory. He worked with playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury on the story, which doesn’t have spoken dialogue.
The reviews for the show at the Armory offer any number of positive quotes for ads. (Advertising will be handled by AKA, which like the St. James is part of Ambassador Theatre Group. Last year, ATG acquired control of the St. James and Jujamcyn’s four other theaters.) The New York Times’ Jesse Green called it “a mysterious and deeply moving dance-musical hybrid;” Vulture’s Sara Holdren wrote that its “extraordinary corps of dancers, musicians, and singers throws open a window to the cosmos, and we all turn like hungry wintering plants toward the sun.”
The St. James becomes available on April 7, thanks to the early closing of the revival of Spamalot after five months. The Illinoise transfer was earlier reported by Jonathan Lewis, otherwise known as Sweaty Oracle on TikTok. (Credit where credit is due.)
Illinoise would be the 15th new musical of the season, according to IBDB credits. (Only 14 of those will be competing for best musical, because the Tony administration committee ruled that Gutenberg! The Musical! will be eligible in the best revival category.)
Nobile’s ever-busy company Seaview is scheduled to open Lempicka, the long-gestating new musical about the artist Tamara de Lempicka, at the Longacre two weeks before Illinoise. He’s also a lead producer of Stereophonic, David Adjmi’s play with music that opens April 19 at the 805-seat John Golden.
Stereophonic appears to be selling well — a sign that a show without stars or a well-known brand, like Illinoise, still stands a chance of succeeding. By opening on Broadway this season, Illinoise producers are capitalizing on the buzz, but they’ll be under pressure to sell a lot of tickets fast.
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