THE REHEARSAL
New York magazine|August 26 - September 08, 2024
Ten performers days before their big fall shows.
DINA LITOVSKY
THE REHEARSAL

10 DAYS UNTIL The Marriage of Figaro AT Little Island

ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO

Countertenor

COSTANZO IS A RARITY in multiple ways. A star countertenor who sings at the Metropolitan Opera and a sometime cabaret performer, he's also the general director and president of Opera Philadelphia. And from September 5 through 22, he'll sing all the leading roles-male and females in an abridged, rearranged, and kaleidoscopic version of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.

"I've never done anything this hard," he says. "It's not as if I have one line and then I pause for someone else's response: I have every line. The saving grace is that when I switch from head voice to chest voice, they're different muscles so each one gives the other a break.

I'm starting to be able to get through it, but the question is, Can I get through 18 performances, five days a week? There's a frenetic, ecstatic quality to a one-person execution." JUSTIN DAVIDSON

90 DAYS UNTIL This Is My Favorite Song AT THE Peter Jay Sharp Theater

FRANCESCA D'UVA, Comedian

SHE'S THE ONE-MAN BAND of Brooklyn comedy, if one-man bands had sneakily powerful emotional through-lines and killer stand-up instincts. On November 24, D'Uva will take her show, This Is My Favorite Song, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. She started writing the show after her father died of COVID-19 in June 2020. "That was kind of the first very bad thing that had ever happened to me in my life," she says. "I came back to the city to try to get back into performing, and I was hating performing. But then I wrote this song, 'I Don't Want to Do This Show, and it sparked something new. My 'rehearsing' is a lot of me writing last minute. I rarely have things solidly written before I'm rehearsing because if it's solid, then I've gotten to that place by doing it over and over already." REBECCA ALTER

Esta historia es de la edición August 26 - September 08, 2024 de New York magazine.

Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 9,000 revistas y periódicos.

Esta historia es de la edición August 26 - September 08, 2024 de New York magazine.

Comience su prueba gratuita de Magzter GOLD de 7 días para acceder a miles de historias premium seleccionadas y a más de 9,000 revistas y periódicos.

MÁS HISTORIAS DE NEW YORK MAGAZINEVer todo
Trapped in Time
New York magazine

Trapped in Time

A woman relives the same day in a stunning Danish novel.

time-read
6 minutos  |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
Polyphonic City
New York magazine

Polyphonic City

A SOFT, SHIMMERING beauty permeates the images of Mumbai that open Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light. For all the nighttime bustle on display-the heave of people, the constant activity and chaos-Kapadia shoots with a flair for the illusory.

time-read
3 minutos  |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
Lear at the Fountain of Youth
New York magazine

Lear at the Fountain of Youth

Kenneth Branagh's production is nipped, tucked, and facile.

time-read
5 minutos  |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
A Belfast Lad Goes Home
New York magazine

A Belfast Lad Goes Home

After playing some iconic Americans, Anthony Boyle is a beloved IRA commander in a riveting new series about the Troubles.

time-read
5 minutos  |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
The Pluck of the Irish
New York magazine

The Pluck of the Irish

Artists from the Indiana-size island continue to dominate popular culture. Online, they've gained a rep as the \"good Europeans.\"

time-read
8 minutos  |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
Houston's on Houston
New York magazine

Houston's on Houston

The Corner Store is like an upscale chain for downtown scene-chasers.

time-read
3 minutos  |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
A Brownstone That's Pink Inside
New York magazine

A Brownstone That's Pink Inside

Artist Vivian Reiss's Murray Hill house of whimsy.

time-read
3 minutos  |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
These Jeans Made Me Gay
New York magazine

These Jeans Made Me Gay

The Citizens of Humanity Horseshoe pants complete my queer style.

time-read
2 minutos  |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
Manic, STONED, Throttle, No Brakes
New York magazine

Manic, STONED, Throttle, No Brakes

Less than six months after her Gagosian sölu show, the artist JAMIAN JULIANO-VILLAND lost her gallery and all her money and was preparing for an exhibition with two the biggest living American artists.

time-read
10+ minutos  |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024
WHO EVER THOUGHT THAT BRIGHT PINK MEAT THAT LASTS FOR WEEKS WAS A GOOD IDEA?
New York magazine

WHO EVER THOUGHT THAT BRIGHT PINK MEAT THAT LASTS FOR WEEKS WAS A GOOD IDEA?

Deli Meat Is Rotten

time-read
10+ minutos  |
Nov 18-Dec 1, 2024