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Past reviews:

A Beast at Avery Fisher Hall by:

Danny Ovryn

Read Danny's article!

Soorya Deepak reviews:

The River Crosses Rivers Festival

Read Soorya's review!

Meagan Rose Rodriguez reviews:

The American Folk Art Museum

Read Meagan's review!

Esther Whang reviews:

Genesius: The Musical

Read Esther's review!

Gavi Nelson reviews:

MoMA/Guggenheim

Read Gavi's review!

Esther Whang reviews:

Fashion and Politics @ F.I.T.

Read Esther's review!

Abigail Lee reviews:

The Toxic Avenger

Read Abigail's review!

Tin Pan Alley Rag reviewed by:

Suzy Berkowitz

Kayla Ferguson

George Rosa

Carol Szwei


Pop-Up Party Under the Highline by:

Maria Gindler

Read Maria's article!

Luther Cherry reviews:

MARS: Population One

Read Luther's review!

My Monstrosity by:

Tina Kuo

Read Tina's article!

Meagan Rose Rodriguez reviews:

The High Line

Read Meagan's review!

Max Balton reviews:

Lincoln Center Out Of Doors Festival

Read Max's review!

Daniel Ovryn reviews:

Paul Zunno

Read Daniel's review!

Julia Kiesersman reviews:

Bargemusic

Read Julia's review!

Julia Lo reviews:

I Write The Songs

Read Julia's review!

Valerie Wang reviews:

Song Dong's Waste Not

Read Valerie's review!

The Odd Couple:
NY Neo-Futurists V.The National Comedy Theatre

By Ben Ellentuck

Read Ben's article!
Meagan Rose Rodriguez reviews:

The Toxic Avenger

Read Meagan's review!

Julia Kieserman reviews:

The Wiz

Read Julia's review!

Emily Rogers reviews:

In The Heights

Read Emiily's review!

Julia Lo reviews:

Bargemusic

Read Julia's review!

Soorya Deepak reviews:

Yayoi Kusama @ The Gagosian Gallery

Read Soorya's review!

George Rosa:

Revisiting A Classic: The Godfather

Read George's review!

Soorya Deepak reviews:

Pure Confidence

Read Soorya's review!

Gavi Nelson reviews:

Next To Normal

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Maria Gindler reviews:

The Pink Floyd Laser Light Show

Read Maria's review!

Jallicia Jolly reviews:

Things of Dry Hours

Read Jallicia's review!

Dalia Wolfson reviews:

Waiting for Godot

Read Dalia's review!

Ben Ellentuck reviews:

The Wiz

Read Ben's review!

Kat Brannan-Williams reviews:

The Wiz

Read Kat's review!

Sahil Goswami reviews:

KILLA

Read Sahil's review!

Soorya Deepak reviews:

Marathon (Series B)

Read Soorya's review!

Julia Lo reviews:

Orbits

Read Julia's review!

Kat Brannan-Williams reviews:

Twelfth Night

Read Kat's review!

Thalia Bloom reviews:

Orbits

Read Thalia's review!

Dalia Wolfson reviews:

Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective

Read Dalia's review!

Gavriel Nelson reviews:

HAIR

Read Gavreil's review!

Abigail Lee reviews:

Pure Confidence

Read Abigail's review!

Daniel Ovryn reviews:

Veron Reid @ The Stone

Read Daniel's review!

Victoria Williams reviews:

Living Outside the...

Read Victoria's review!

Julia Lisa reviews:

Dance Outside the Box

Read Julia's review!

Daphne Rustow reviews:

Jon Kessler @ Dietch Projects

Read Daphne's review!

Rachael Xerri reviews:

Reality Check @ The Met

Read Rachael's review!

Nikki Dodd reviews:

Taking Over

Read Nikki's review!

Daniel Ovryn reviews:

Ramblin' Jack Elliot

Read Daniel's review!

Nikki Dodd reviews:

A More Perfect Union

Read Nikki's review!

Kat Brannan-Williams reviews:

NYC Ballet

Read Kat's review!

Dalia Wolfson reviews:

Nagas: Hidden Hill People of India @ RMA

Read Dalia's review!

Elisabeth Wilson reviews:

STREB @ SLAM!

Read Elisabeth's review!

Brittany Williams & Jean Milligan reviews:

Rags' Riches @ Merkin Hall

Read Brittany and Jean's review!

Abigail Cohen reviews:

Pericles, Prince of Tyre

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Victoria Le reviews:

The Rubin Museum of Art

Read Victoria's review!

Dalia Wolfson reviews:

Intervals @ The Guggenheim

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Shayra Kamal reviews:

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

Read Shayra's review!

Bryce Leong reviews:

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage

Read Bryce's review!

Ariel Kay reviews:

End Days

Read Ariel's review!

Victoria Kam reviews:

reasons to be pretty

Read Victoria's review!

Dalia Wolfson reviews:

The Third Mind @ The Guggenheim

Read Dalia's review!

Ben Ellentuck reviews:

33 Variations

Read Ben's review!

Nikki Dodd reviews:

reasons to be pretty

Read Nikki's review!

Dinah Donacien reviews:

DanceBrazil

Read Dinah's review!

Francesca Altamura reviews:

Ryan McGinness Works

Read Francesca's review!

Jay Reist reviews:

Dance Brazil

Read Jay's review!

Jallicia Jolly reviews:

reasons to be pretty

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Dalia Wolfson reviews:

Late Interiors

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Bryce Jade reviews:

Journals and Elegies

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Dalia Wolfson reviews:

Perfumes and Toxins and Concerto for Orchestra

Read Dalia's review!

Abigail Cohen reviews:

Yevgeny Stubin, Piano

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Dalia Wolfson reviews:

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Read Dalia's review!

Rachel Kannak reviews:

Savion Glover: SoLo in TiMe

Read Rachel's review!

Alexa Blaise Sandberg reviews:

Paul Taylor Dance Company

Read Alexa's review!

Thalia Bloom reviews:

The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

Read Thalia's review!

Emily Tavcar reviews:

Douglas Dunn & Company

Read Emily's review!

Shana Aguilar reviews:

The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

Read Shana's review!

Shana Aguilar reviews:

Illyria

Read Shana's review!

Julia Lo reviews:

Excellence in Education

Read Julia's review!

Thalia Bloom reviews:

Excellence in Education

Read Thalia's review!

Ben Ellentuck reviews:

Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used To It)

Read Ben's review!

Nikki Dodd reviews:

Urinetown

Read Nikki's review!

Tiffany McAllister reviews:

The Impending Moustache @ The PIT

Read Tiffany's review!

Tina Kuo reviews:

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind

Read Tina's review!

Niki Dodd reviews:

Taking Over

Read Niki's review!

Thailia Bloom reviews:

Illyria

Read Thailia's review!

Urkhan Alakbarov reviews:

Robert Dick

Read Urkhan's review!

Julia Lo reviews:

Robert Dick

Read Julia's review!

Alexa Blaise Sandberg reviews:

Ballet Hispanico

Read Alexa's review!

Christina McGrath reviews:

Casey Ruble

Read Christina's review!

Christina McGrath reviews:

Matthew Jackson

Read Christina's review!

Mikhail Klochkov reviews:

Luciana Achuga

Read Mikhail's review!

Mikhail Klochkov reviews:

Gerald Casel Dance

Read Mikhail's review!

Tina Kuo reviews:

Andy Diaz Hope and Lauren Roth

Read Tina's review!

Claudia Balthazar reviews:

Pokemon

Read Claudia's review!

Theater and Multi TRaC review:

Passing Strange at the Belasco Theatre

Brinica's review!
Shana's review!
Amanda's review!

Sasha reviews:

Gauguin/Savage Light:
A Sketchbook Musical


There is a slight musty smell...Click for more!

Allegra reviews:

King Arthur

One look at the program...Click for more!

Allegra reviews:

The Gambler

Russian opera. What can I say?...Click for more!

Allegra reviews:

St. Matthew's Passion

It was Good Friday, a dark clear...Click for more!

Music TRaC reviews:

Han Bennink, Peter Brotzmann, Peter Evans and Tom Blancharte at Clemente Soto Velez Cutural Center - Vision/Rucma

Ivana's review!

Theater TRaC reviews:

The Little Flower of East Orange at the Public Theater

Eric's review!
Hannah's review!
Jasmin's review!
Jessica's review!
Tiffani's review!
Yana's review!
Zach's review!

Dance TRaC reviews:

Jonah Bokaer's The Invention of Minus One

Cathy's review!
Emily's review!
Jennifer's review!
Kesi's review!
Michelle's review!
Rachel's review!

Miriam reviews:

Paul Taylor's Dream Season

I have four words for you...Click for more!

Emily reviews:

Paul Taylor's Dream Season

Paul Taylor's Dream Season was an evening...Click for more!

Miriam Haier reviews:

Parsons Dance

Parsons Dance is renowned for presenting...Click for more!

MusicTRaC's Alex Dymovsky reviews:

Jazz Battles

Despite the wintry chill of the first day of December...Click for more!

Amanda Pickering reviews:

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

The people you admire the most are the people who do the impossible. Alvin Ailey's dancers...Click for more!

Amanda Pickering reviews:

Richard Prince: Spiritual America @ The Guggenheim

Richard Prince: Spiritual America, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, presents America as it is. ...Click for more!

Wintuck Snapshots!:

Selected Reviews from TRaC Students

Wintuk is a simple story that combines elegant circus acts and elaborate fairy tale stories...Click for more!




2007 REVIEWS:
Kesi Reviews
Till the Break of Dawn at The Culture Project

Nikki Reviews
Angst at The Fringe Festival

Allegra Reviews
Flavio at New York City Opera

Allegra Reviews
Gypsy at New York City Center

Allison Reviews
Talk Radio

Allegra Reviews
Pirates of Penzance at the New York City Opera

Kesi Reviews
Hamlet by Take wing and Soar Productions

Cleveland Reviews
A Very Common Procedure at MCC Theatre

Ivana Reviews
No Child at the Barrow Street Theatre

Joelle Reviews
No Child at the Barrow Street Theatre

Joelle Reviews
Ectopia at the International Center of Photography


REVIEW ARCHIVE

Madeleine Reviews
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by the New York Neo-Futurists

Allegra Reviews
Semele A Secular Oratorio by George Frideric Handel

Miriam Reviews
Dear America at the NYC Fringe Festival

Megan Reviews
The Burning Cities Project at the NYC Fringe Festival

Kesi Reviews
Understand to be Understood at the NYC Fringe Festival

Ivana Reviews
Ophelia at the NYC Fringe Festival

Megan Reviews
Fear Up: Stories from Baghdad and Guantanamo at the NYC Fringe Festival

Andrew Reviews
National Comedy Theater

Allegra Reviews
From Russia With Mozart by the American Symphony Orchestra

Ivana Reviews
Clarion Call: A New Orleans Trumpet Celebration

Andrew Reviews
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by the New York Neo-Futurists

Miriam Reviews
The Manhattan Monologue Slam

Miriam Reviews
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind by the New York Neo-Futurists

Andrew Reviews
Not a Genuine Black Man at DR2

Andrew Reviews
Godot Has Left the Building at the Culture Project

Paul Reviews
Guardians at the Culture Project

Paul Reviews
Wolfpit by the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

Kesi Reviews
Wolfpit by the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

Seferina Reviews
A Midsummer Night's Dream at New York City Ballet

Allegra Reviews
Camen at New York City Opera

Effie Reviews
Tere O'Connor's Baby at Dance Theater Workshop

Ivana (Music TRaC, Spring 06) Reviews
Wu Man & Friends at Carnegie Hall

Kesi (Multi-TRaC, Spring 06) Reviews
Stuff Happens at the Public Theater

Ivana (Music TRaC, Spring 06) Reviews
Stuff Happens at the Public Theater

Miriam Reviews
Heiner Müller: A Man Without A Behind at the All Stars Project

Paul Reviews
Heiner Müller: A Man Without A Behind at the All Stars Project

Karla (Music TRaC, Spring 06) Reviews
Cassandre at Carnegie Hall

Ivana (Music TRaC, Spring 06) Reviews
Cassandre at Carnegie Hall

Kevin Reviews
Skin Tight by Nicu's Spoon

Paul (Multi-TRaC, Spring 06) Reviews
Trojan Women at Stages of Learning

Jack Reviews
Gene Pool at Dance New Amsterdam

Miriam Reviews
Shortly After Takeoff by The Harbor Theatre

Ivana (Music TRaC, Spring 06) Reviews
the ICP Orchestra at Tonic

Miriam Reviews
Trojan Women at Stages of Learning

Kevin Reviews
The Merchant of Venice at the American Globe Theatre

Allegra Reviews
La Boheme by New York City Opera

Sonia Reviews
Andras Schiff in Cappella Andrea Barca at Carnegie Hall

Allegra Reviews
The Most Happy Fella by New York City Opera

Ida Reviews
House of Desires at the Storm Theatre

Ivana (Multi-TRaC, Fall 05) Reviews
Sound Insights: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

Izabella (Visual Arts TRaC, Fall 05) Reviews
Rope at Drama Dept.

Xiao (Multi-TRaC, Fall 05) Reviews
Rope at Drama Dept.

Miriam (Visual Arts, Fall 05) Reviews
Elizabeth Murray at The Museum of Modern Art

Maxine (Visual Arts, Fall 05) Reviews
Russia at the Guggenheim Museum

Ivana (Multi-TRaC, Fall 05) Reviews
Griot New York at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Tiffany (Dance TRaC, Fall 05) Reviews
The Clare Byrne Dance Company at The Joyce Soho

Maxine (Visual Arts, Fall 05) Reviews
Elizabeth Murray at The Museum of Modern Art

Ivana (Multi TRaC, Fall 05) Reviews
Sides: The Fear is Real at The Culture Project

Jack Reviews
The National Comedy Theater

Tiffany Reviews
Cookin at Minetta Lane Theater

Alexandra Reviews
Pascal Rioult Dance Theater

Tiffany Reviews
Night of 100 Stars at QCC PAC

Queen Reviews
Amateur Night at The Apollo

Alexandra Reviews
Pittsburgh Piano Trio at Carnegie Hall

Mariya Reviews
The Light in the Piazza at Lincoln Center Theater

Alexandra Reviews
Inky by the Women's Project

Mariya Reviews
Good Vibrations

Tiffany Reviews
Dance Improv Dame Show at The Kitchen

Mariya Reviews
Cookin'

Queen Reviews
National Comedy Theatre

Laurie Reviews
Gilding the Lily

Tiffany Reviews
Martha Graham Dance Company

Effie Reviews
Cul-de-sac at Performance Space 122

Nicole Reviews
Fiorello! by the St. Bart's Players

Nina Reviews
Apollo Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater

Alexandra Reviews
The Marriage of Figarro by New York City Opera

Nina Reviews
City Center Encores! Bash Concert

Tiffany Reviews
Pierre and Marie/Love and Chemistry by Break a Leg Productions

Ana Nicole Reviews
La Boheme at the New York City Opera

Ana Nicole Reviews
Casi Una Diosa at the Thalia Spanish Theater

Nicole Reviews
The Frogs at the Lincoln Center

Tiffany Reviews
The American Museum of the Moving Image

Laurie Reviews
Homebody/Kabul

Nicholas Reviews
The Summer They Stopped Making 'Ludes by Another Urban Riff

Julia Reviews
The Summer They Stopped Making 'Ludes by Another Urban Riff

Mariya Reviews
Comedy 101

Mariya Reviews
The Georgian Ballet at the New York City Ballet

Alexandra Reviews
Toxic Audio in Loudmouth by Toxic Audio

Alexandra Reviews
On The Brink by Dirty Feet Productions

Alexandra Reviews
The Georgian Ballet Company by The New York City Ballet Company

Nina Reviews
Mono by Another Urban Riff

Laurie Reviews
Light Raise the Roof at the New York Theatre Workshop

Ana Nicole Reviews
Keigwin Kabaret: Channel Surfing at Thalia Dance at Symphony Space

Nina Reviews
The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It by Oberon Theatre Ensemble

Ilya Reviews
Pardon My English at City Center Encores!

Mariya Reviews
The Chameleons by The Freestyle Rep

Alexandra Reviews
Mono by Another Urban Riff

Laurie Reviews
Chameleons at the The Freestyle Rep

Laruie Reviews
Off the Top of Our Heads at the Gotham City Improv

Saving Face: Lauren Reviews
Only Skin Deep at the International Center of Photography

Nicole Reviews
Sweeney Todd at the New York City Opera

Nina Reviews
Amateur Night at the Apollo Theatre

Ilya Reviews
Dona Rosita the Spinster at the Jean Cocteau Repertory

Ana Nicole Reviews
Pippin by the Debaun Auditorium

Alexandra Reviews
Nymph Errant by the Medicine Show Theatre

Alexandra Reviews
Sleeping Beauty by the New York City Ballet

Nicole Reviews
The Diary of Anne Frank by The St. Bart's Players

Mariya Reviews
Animal Farm by Synapse Productions


Bethania Aponte and Aracely Delgado's Review
of The Marriage of Bette and Boo by The Actors Company Theater

Lauren's Review
of The Bolingen Journey at the Isamu Noguchi Museum

Ebony's Review
of Richard III by Take Wing and Soar Productions

Nicole's Review
of Cookin' at the New Victory

Nicole's Review
of Madama Butterfly at NYC Opera

Lauren's Review
of DeluxeJoyPilot at Dance Theater Workshop

Bethania Aponte and Aracely Delgado's Review
of Big River at American Airlines Theatre

Bethania Aponte and Aracely Delgado's Review
of Don Juan at Theater for a New Audience

Bethania Aponte and Aracely Delgado's Review
of Carmen at New York City Opera

Ilya's Review
of Carmen at the New York City Opera

Nicole's Review
of Macbeth at BAM

Lauren's Review
of Macbeth at BAM

Lauren's Review
of Blast from Your Past at the Museum of Television and Radio

Lisette's Review
of Entertaining America at The Jewish Museum

Clarissa's Review
of Entertaining America at The Jewish Museum

Alex's Review
of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Wesley's Review
of Cynthia Oliver at Dance Theatre Workshop

Kazmira's Review
of Splitstream at Dance Theatre Workshop

Kristy's Review
of Splitstream at Dance Theatre Workshop

Jessica's Review
of Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater

Ethan's Review
of Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater