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Having recently enjoyed the world premiere of Hermes his dazzling two-act play about dysfunctional behavior let loose on the world's global financial markets, Bennett Fisher's contribution to the tenth annual Bay One Acts Festival proved to be equally controversial.

George Heymont: The Best of BOA: Bay One Acts Festival Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary George Heymont 2011

Having recently enjoyed the world premiere of Hermes his dazzling two-act play about dysfunctional behavior let loose on the world's global financial markets, Bennett Fisher's contribution to the tenth annual Bay One Acts Festival proved to be equally controversial.

George Heymont: The Best of BOA: Bay One Acts Festival Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary George Heymont 2011

Helpfully, movie audiences spurred to see the actual ballet at the center of Mr. Aronofsky's overwrought film could have more than a few "Swan Lake" misconceptions corrected by attending American Ballet Theatre's two-act reworking of the onetime four-act work, which began a weeklong run on Monday.

These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers Robert Greskovic 2011

The now two-act tale, with fanciful twists and turns of plot and magic, got its Shchedrin music in 1960 along with a kiddie-cartoonish staging from Alexander Radunsky for Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet.

Forgoing the Classics, but Still Nothing New Robert Greskovic 2011

As audiences entered the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the U.S. premiere of Pina Bausch's "Vollmond (Full Moon)," a two-act production from 2006 with Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, it found, projected on a lobby wall, Twitter comments sent to BAM regarding the choreographer, who died in 2009 at age 68.

Tides of Memory Robert Greskovic 2010

Helpfully, movie audiences spurred to see the actual ballet at the center of Mr. Aronofsky's overwrought film could have more than a few "Swan Lake" misconceptions corrected by attending American Ballet Theatre's two-act reworking of the onetime four-act work, which began a weeklong run on Monday.

These Ladies of the Lake Sprout No Feathers Robert Greskovic 2011

As he did with Bizet's "Carmen" nearly 30 years ago, Brook has radically altered Mozart's work, turning it from a full-length two-act opera into one that lasts 90 minutes without intermission.

Howard Kissel: Peter Brook's "A Magic Flute" Howard Kissel 2011

The best production that I've seen in recent years was the small-scale staging directed by Charles Newell at Chicago's Court Theatre last spring, a passionate two-act chamber opera performed on a dirt-plain unit set reminiscent of a backwoods church.

A 'Porgy' For Prigs Terry Teachout 2012

As he did with Bizet's "Carmen" nearly 30 years ago, Brook has radically altered Mozart's work, turning it from a full-length two-act opera into one that lasts 90 minutes without intermission.

Howard Kissel: Peter Brook's "A Magic Flute" Howard Kissel 2011

Compared with the 1980 filmed recording of Ms. Plisetskaya's ballet, Mr. Ratmansky's two-act staging of the three-act score is graceful and good-looking, if ultimately weighed down by the music's churning but undistinguished emotionalism.

Forgoing the Classics, but Still Nothing New Robert Greskovic 2011