Latest Twyla Tharp News

Twyla Tharp dance will open 700-seat amphitheater at New York's Little Island park in June

May. 06, 2024 13:18 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The 700-seat amphitheater at Little Island, a park in Manhattan built above the Hudson River on a series of tulip-shaped concrete columns, will open June 6 with Twyla Tharp’s “How Long Blues” in the choreographer’s first full-length work in a decade. ...

Choreographer Lorin Latarro, rock's whisperer on Broadway, gives flight to the Who and Huey Lewis

Apr. 09, 2024 10:25 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The quintessential rock musical "The Who’s Tommy" is thrillingly alive again on Broadway. And just a few blocks away is a new rock show featuring music by Huey Lewis and the News. The connecting tissue between them is the in-demand choreographer Lorin Latarro,...