Ballet Rhode Island has named Alexandra Cook as its new Operations Director. A Rhode Island native with a distinguished ...

Like Baryshnikov, other dancers have invented steps that expanded the language of ballet (Irek Mukhamedov of the Bolshoi, for example). Others, too, have left classicism for indelible achievements ...

Because of a knee injury, Mikhail Baryshnikov has postponed his fall tour, including an Oct. 8-12 engagement at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. Baryshnikov postpones dates - Los Angeles Times ...

Who knew Baryshnikov was a theater kid? Growing up in Riga, Latvia, little Misha was introduced to the world of drama by his culture-vulture mom, Alexandra. "When I was 5 or 6, my mother used to ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov on "The Orchard" 07:59. In a new adaptation of "The Cherry Orchard," at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, the center's namesake is playing an old servant.

Baryshnikov, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 1977 and later became a cult hit for his hot-daddy role in “Sex and the City” as Sarah Jessica Parker’s love interest, ...

Baryshnikov's main character, a schoolteacher name Byelikov, is socially phobic to the point of paranoia. His refusal to join in life's dance and marry the woman who tries to pull him out of his ...

Baryshnikov came of age during the “Khrushchev Thaw,” a relaxation of Stalin-era rule that was welcomed in the West. Still, the party line, as Nikita Khrushchev wrote, ...

Baryshnikov, who has shifted from ballet into the avant-garde theater world, stars alongside Willem Dafoe in Russian writer Daniil Kharms’ bizarre 1930s tale of a writer, ...

Baryshnikov’s seven-member company rarely spends much time at White Oak anymore, although he remains a frequent visitor. A recent rehearsal, in late January and early February, is the longest ...

As the audience for “Brodsky/Baryshnikov” enters the black-box, 238-seat Jerome Robbins Theater at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, it finds the stage set with what in Kristine Jurjane’s ...