Goings On About Town: This Week

By night, Lauren Worsham is a silver-voiced soprano who has sung with the Philharmonic and on Broadway. (She was nominated for a Tony for “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.”) By late night, she fronts an impish indie band called Sky-Pony with her husband, Kyle Jarrow—who also has another career, as a writer for stage and screen. At Ars Nova, they perform “The Wildness” (in previews; opening Feb. 29), a “rock fairy tale” that channels the couple’s penchant for dragons, ritual, and geeky-glam style. THE THEATRE Estate Value Discovering a Russian master. IT WAS THE late actress Kim Stanley who alerted me to Chekhov’s greatness. Years ago, I was trying to write a piece, for this magazine, about the fabled performer, a process that led to a number of late-night calls. Stanley had…

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The New Yorker (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 22, 2016

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