The New York Times - 08.10.2019

C4 N THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2019

AIN’T TOO PROUD

“PRETTY CLOSE TO PERFECTION!”

Ben Brantley, The New York Times

AIN'T TOO PROUD THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE TEMPTATIONS Book by DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU Music and Lyrics from THE LEGENDARY MOTOWN CATALOG Based on the Book Entitled THE TEMPTATIONS by OTIS WILLIAMS Music by Arrangement with SONY/ATV MUSIC PUBLISHING Choreographed by SERGIO TRUJILLO Directed by DES McANUFF Telecharge.com or 212-239-6200 AintTooProudMusical.com Sun3;T7;W2;Th7;F8;Sat2&8 Imperial Theatre (+), 249 W. 45th St.

“FABULOUS & EXTRAVAGANT!” The New York Times DISNEY presents ALADDIN The Hit Broadway Musical GREAT SEATS AVAILABLE NOW Tomorrow at 2 & 7 This Wk: W2&7;Th7;F8;Sa2&8;Su1&6:30 Nxt Wk: M7;W7;Th7;F8;Sa2&8;Su1&6:30 AladdinTheMusical.com 866-870-2717 New Amsterdam Theatre (+) 214 W. 42 St.

FINAL BROADWAY PERFORMANCE OCTOBER 27 Tonight at 7 BEAUTIFUL THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL Tu7; We 2; Th 7; Fr 8; Sa 2&8; Su 2&7 Telecharge.com/212-239-6200 Groups of 10+ 1-800- BROADWAY ext. 2 http://www.BeautifulOnBroadway.com Stephen Sondheim Theatre 124 W 43rd St

“ROWDY, CHEEKY AND GLEEFULLY IRREVERENT!”

New York Magazine
BEETLEJUICE
The Musical. The Musical. The Musical.
Telecharge.comor 212-239-6200
Groups (12+): 866-302-0995
Tu/Th 7, Wed/Sat 2 & 8, Fri 8, Sun 7:30
http://www.BeetlejuiceBroadway.com
Winter Garden Theatre - 50th St. & Bway

“YOU LEAVE THE THEATRE FULL OF HOPE!”

Daily Express
TODAY AT 7
COME FROM AWAY
The Hit Musical Based On
The Remarkable True Story
Telecharge.com or 212-239-6200
ComeFromAway.com
Special Holiday Perf Mon 10/28 at 7
Tu, Th, Su 7; We, Sa, Su 2; Fr, Sa 8
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (+)

DISNEY presents FROZEN The Hit Broadway Musical “AMAZING special effects EYE-POPPING costumes, and INCREDIBLE performances!” -Newsday Great Seats Available Now Tonight at 7 T7;W7;Th7;F8;Sa2&8;Su1&6:30 FrozenTheMusical.com 866-870-2717 St. James Theatre (+) 246 W 44th St.

Tonight at 7 8 TONY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST MUSICAL “THE HOTTEST TICKET IN TOWN” -Wall Street Journal HADESTOWN By ANAIS MITCHELL Directed by RACHEL CHAVKIN Hadestown.com Walter Kerr Theatre, 219 W. 48th St.

“HILARIOUS, SPLASHY AND UNMISTAKABLY BY TINA FEY!” -New York Magazine MEAN GIRLS Book by TINA FEY MusicbyJEFFRICHMOND Lyrics by NELL BENJAMIN Directed & Choreographed by CASEY NICHOLAW Groups: 1-800-BROADWAYx2 MeanGirlsOnBroadway.com August Wilson Theatre (+), 245 W. 52 St.

Tonight at 7pm “Spectacular. Extravagant. Its shine is dazzling.” - Time Out New York Baz Luhrmann's Revolutionary Film Comes to Life MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL Book by John Logan Directed by Alex Timbers Ticketmaster.com or 877-250-2929 Groups: 1-800-BROADWAY x2 MoulinRougeMusical.com Al Hirschfeld Theatre (+),302 W. 45TH ST.

WINNER! BEST MUSICAL TONY AWARD

WINNER! BEST MUSICAL OLIVIER AWARD

WINNER! BEST MUSICAL DRAMA DESK AWARD

WINNER! BEST MUSICAL OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

WINNER! BEST MUSICAL ALBUM GRAMMY AWARD

TONIGHT AT 7, TOMORROW AT 7 “THE BEST MUSICAL OF THIS CENTURY.”

Ben Brantley, The New York Times

THE BOOK OF MORMON 877-250-2929 or Ticketmaster.com Groups 10+: 866-302-0995 BookOfMormonBroadway.com Tue - Thu 7; Fri 8; Sat 2 & 8; Sun 2 & 7 Eugene O'Neill Theatre (+), 230 W 49th St

TOMORROW AT 1PM & 7PM Limited Engagement - Thru Nov 30th Only “AN ACTION-PACKED ROLLER-COASTER OF A DRAMA!”

amNY
BRIAN COX is LBJ
THE GREAT SOCIETY
Written by Robert Schenkkan
Directed by Bill Rauch
GreatSocietyBroadway.com
VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATER (+)
150 W. 65th St.

“HERE IS THE PLAY of this year and last year and quite possibly next year as well.”

Evening Standard
PART TWO FRIDAY AT 7:30PM
THE INHERITANCE
A New Play. Generations in the Making.
212-239-6200 / TheInheritancePlay.com
Ethel Barrymore Theatre (+), 243 W 47 St.

DISNEY presents THE LION KING The Award-Winning Best Musical Tonight at 7 T7;W7;Th8;F8;Sa2&8;Su1&6:30 lionking.com 866-870-2717 Minskoff Theatre (+), B'way & 45th Street

Tonight at 7 The Breathtaking Broadway Original Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA Mo 8; Tu 7; We 2 & 8; Fr 8; Sa 2 & 8; Su 7 Visit Telecharge.com; Call 212-239-6200 Grps: 800-BROADWAY or 866-302-0995 Majestic Theatre (+) 247 W. 44th St.

Tonight at 8 Marisa Tomei THE ROSE TATTOO By Tennessee Williams Directed by Trip Cullman RoundaboutTheatre.org/212.719.1300 Group Sales: 212.719.9393 American Airlines Theatre (+), 227 W. 42nd St.

TONIGHT AT 8PM “MARY-LOUISE PARKER IS SENSATIONAL.”

The New York Times
“A GRIPPING STUNNER.”

The Chicago Tribune
MARY-LOUISE PARKER in
THE SOUND INSIDE
with Will Hochman
Written by Adam Rapp
Directed by David Cromer
Tue, Thu-Fri at 8pm;
Wed, Sat at 2pm & 8pm; Sun at 3pm
SoundInsideBroadway.com
STUDIO 54, 254 West 54th St

TONIGHT AT 7, TOM'W AT 1 BEST AVAILABILITY DECEMBER

NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC'S PICK “ALL RISE FOR THIS GREAT PLAY. ONE OF THE BEST IN HISTORY.” David Richardson, NPR

JEFF DANIELS is ATTICUS FINCH in

HARPER LEE'S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD A NEW PLAY BY AARON SORKIN DIRECTED BY BARTLETT SHER Telecharge.com or 212-239-6200 Groups 12+: 866-302-0995 ToKillAMockingbirdBroadway.com Shubert Theatre (+), 225 W 44th St

Tonight at 7:30 NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC'S PICK “Far and away the funniest musical of the season!” -Daily News

TOOTSIE The Comedy Musical TootsieMusical.com or 877.250.2929 Marquis Theatre (+), 210 W. 46th St.

Starring Grammy Nominee Jordin Sparks WAITRESS Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles Tonight at 7 Book by Jessie Nelson Directedby Diane Paulus WaitressTheMusical.com Ticketmaster.com / 877-250-2929 Mon, Tue, Thu 7; Fri 8; Sat 2&8; Sun 2&7 Brooks Atkinson Theatre (+), 256 W 47 St

“A MAGICAL BROADWAY MUSICAL WITH BRAINS, HEART AND COURAGE.” -Time Magazine Tonight at 7 WICKED WickedtheMusical.com Tu-Th 7; Fr 8; Sa 2&8; Su 2&7 Ticketmaster.com or 877-250-2929 Groups: 646-289-6885/877-321-0020 Gershwin Theatre(+) 222 West 51st St.

WINNER! BEST MUSICAL REVIVAL 2019 Drama Desk Award 2019 Outer Critics Circle Award FIDDLER ON THE ROOF In Yiddish with English Supertitles Directedby JOEL GREY Thu 2&7; Fri 8; Sat 2&8, Sun 1&6 FiddlerNYC.com or 212-239-6200 Groups (12+): 866-302-0995 Stage 42 (+), 422 W. 42nd Street

Back in NY! All New! All Hilarious! Tonight at 7pm LIMITED ENGAGEMENT thru 11/30 FORBIDDEN BROADWAY THE NEXT GENERATION Thisweek: Tues 7, Wed 9:30, Fri 7, Sat 2:30, Sun 3:30 & 7 Forbiddenbroadway.com - 212.279.4200 THE TRIAD THEATRE - 158 W. 72nd St.

Thursday at 7:30pm “A Kiss and Tell-All!” - Citi Tour L.O.V.E.R. Written & Performed by Lois Robbins Directed by Karen Carpenter Thu-Fri7:30; Sat 8; Sun 2 LoverThePlay.com / 212-279-4200 The Pershing Square Signature Center 480 W. 42nd St.

“Hilarious! Nonstop pandemonium!” - EW THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG TOMORROW AT 7 Telecharge.com or 212-239-6200 BroadwayGoesWrong.com Mo 7; We 7; Th 7; Fr 8; Sa 2 & 8; Su 2 & 7 New World Stages (+), 340 W. 50th St.

BROADWAY

OFF−BROADWAY

MARGATE, ENGLAND — Women’s hosiery
isn’t something you would necessarily ex-
pect to find hanging in an art gallery. Nor
would you usually think of tights as
thought-provoking.
But “Gossamer,” an exhibition that
opened recently at Carl Freedman Gallery
in this seaside town about 75 miles from
London, shows that nylon pantyhose and
garter-held stockings can be a rich source
for artists.
“Gossamer” brings together work by 22
artists — including Louise Bourgeois, Sarah
Lucas and Man Ray — who have made art
using stockings as subject matter or as a
material instead of, say, paint or steel. The
show touches on themes of race, gender,
femininity and subversion.
Zoe Bedeaux, the show’s curator, is a per-
formance artist and poet and a former styl-
ist for photographers like Juergen Teller.
She has had little experience curating exhi-
bitions, but in her other work, Ms. Bedeaux
frequently explores the semiotics of fash-
ion. She was interested in “the conversation
of clothes,” she said in an interview.
Carl Freedman, the gallery’s founder, ac-
knowledged, “It’s not like we’ve hired some-
body from the Tate.” Last fall, he said, he ap-
proached Ms. Bedeaux, whom he had
known for years, about the possibility of
putting together a show; she had already
conceived a theme for an exhibition, and
even had the name ready, Mr. Freedman
said.
The show’s artists come from countries
around the world, including Belgium,
China, Japan, Mexico and Poland, as well as
Britain and the United States. The works
range from an elegant 1945 Man Ray photo-
graph that depicts a woman’s head covered
in gauzy, veil-like nylon, to the Iranian artist
Shirin Fakhim’s jarring full-size sculpture

of prostitutes in Tehran made partly from stuffed tights. “I love that disparity and that breadth,” Ms. Bedeaux said. “You’re looking at these things and you’re always back to, ‘Oh my God, these are tights; these are stockings.’ And then you’ve got all these other dia- logues going on.” “Tights are the base material,” she added, “but this show is not about tights.” “Nude” pantyhose, for example, can be seen as a symbol of racism, since, until recently, their shades bore little resemblance to the complexions of women of color. Ms. Bedeaux, who is of Caribbean descent, said she remembered an aunt whose legs seemed to be a different hue from her body when covered in tights in a “nude” shade called American Tan. “They looked pros- thetic,” she said. “It was a totally artificial color.” “Gossamer” includes a print from a se- ries called “American Tan” by the British artist Gary Hume: It is an image of a head- less woman with splayed legs in that neu- tral shade, but the figure seems hardly hu- man. Another work, Enam Gbewonyo’s “The Oculus-The Third Eye,” is an installa- tion of intertwined swatches of nude pantyhose arranged in a circle on the floor; they are mostly quite fair, with the few dark op- tions in a flat brown that excludes the many nuanced hues of skin color. Women’s hosiery is, of course, an emblem of femininity. Its physical qualities — stretchy until it inevitably rips apart — un- derline the notion of women as both strong and fragile. It’s used in that context in several pieces in the show, such as “Not One More,” in which the artist María Ezcurra has hung several dozen pairs of faded and worn tights on a circular rack to represent women who were violently murdered in Mexico in the late 1990s.

The association with femininity makes images of men wearing hosiery all the more transgressive. There are pieces along those lines in the show as well, like a stark image of a male cross-dresser in back-seamed stockings by the artist Ulay, who Ms. Be- deaux said was “a gender pioneer.” Ms. Bedeaux said her decision to include works by male artists in the show had ini- tially surprised Mr. Freedman. “He thought it was going to be about women,” Ms. Be- deaux said. “That’s my interest, to see how men would use the material or interpret what’s their vision, and what’s behind their association with tights and stockings.” Some of those associations are sexy, erotic and, occasionally, fetishistic. There’s a suggestive intimacy to images of sheer stockings that makes some of the show’s pieces — like a pair of Pierre Molinier photographs with multiple pairs of stockinged legs in copulating poses — seem voyeuris- tic. Tights can be worn subversively, too. The performance artist Leigh Bowery did that, for example, in two photographs by Fergus Greer, included in “Gossamer,” in which his head is covered in a stocking, like a nylon balaclava, and exaggerated facial features drawn on in makeup. The inclusion of provocative images in the show was deliberate, Mr. Freedman said. Others include Elmer Batters’s 1969 photograph of a woman lying on a park bench, her stocking-clad legs in the air, panties exposed, suggesting behavior con- ventionally reserved for the bedroom rather than a public place. Ms. Bedeaux said she wanted people to think about the depth of what is otherwise just an everyday item. “This has been a be- nign object, and everyone’s wearing it,” she said. “But when you break it down,” she added, “it’s not.”

MAN RAY 2015 TRUST/ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NY/ADAGP, PARIS MARÍA EZCURRA

This Idea Has Legs: Pantyhose as Art

An exhibition in Britain featuring stockings and tights takes on issues like race and subversion.

By RACHEL FELDER

“Juliet” (1945) by Man Ray, left, shows a woman’s head covered by nylon. “Not One More” (2003) by María Ezcurra, right, represents women murdered in Mexico in the 1990s.

Gossamer Through Dec. 15 at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate, England; carlfreedman.com.

Cora Cahan, a longtime New York arts administrator, will join the Baryshnikov Arts Center as its new president and chief executive, the organization has an- nounced. Ms. Cahan will begin her tenure in mid-October. Ms. Cahan, who had a career as a dancer before becoming the executive director of the Eliot Feld Ballet, has spent much of her career transforming neglected theaters into revitalized cultural spaces. After she and the choreo- grapher Eliot Feld helped to trans- form a 1941 movie house into the Joyce Theater, she became the founding president of the New 42nd Street nonprofit organization where she spent 29 years re- shaping a stretch of dilapidated Times Square theaters into a cultural hub. Under her tenure, the organization opened the family-oriented New Victory theater, the black- box theater the Duke and New 42nd Street Studios, which offers rehearsal and theater space for emerging artists. She stepped down as the organization’s chief in June. Now Ms. Cahan will use her administrative expertise and her dance background to help Mikhail Baryshnikov, whom she’s known for 45 years and calls Misha, bring his multidisciplinary arts center into its next chapter. “Of great interest to me is to go some- place created by somebody that I trust and admire beyond meas- ure, which is Misha, and help him move it for- ward into not only the second half of the 21st century but beyond,” Ms. Cahan said in a phone interview. Mr. Baryshnikov opened his 20,000-square-foot arts center in Manhattan back in 2005. The nonprofit offers dance, music and theater performances, as well as resi- dencies, fellowships and rehearsal space for emerging artists. In her new role, Ms. Cahan says she plans to help enhance the center’s potential by finding ways to serve artists outside of the New York area, expanding its board, raising funds and possibly secur- ing more space. “For me to be in a place that’s a creative laboratory for a multitude of artists doing a multitude of works, for me to be closer to them and help them in the spirit of the Baryshnikov Arts Center, is deeply touching to me,” she said. Ms. Cahan succeeds Georgiana Pickett, who previously served as the center’s executive director and stepped down in April.

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