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ELEVATE YOUR SENSES AT THESE GLOBAL EVENTS
STAGE LIGHT
Two heralded productions are being remounted with celebrated actresses taking the lead.
Tony Award winner (and mother of A Gifted Man star Jennifer Ehle) Rosemary Harris stars in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Broadway premiere of South African playwright Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca. Marking a yearlong celebration of Fugard’s 80th birthday, Mecca opens Jan. 17 and runs through March 4. roundabouttheatre.org
Manhattan Theatre Club presents the Broadway premiere of Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, with Tony and Emmy Award winner Cynthia Nixon playing the brilliant poetry professor battling cancer. Previews begin Jan. 5, with opening night scheduled for Jan. 26. manhattantheaterclub.com
On Jan. 24, Nick Jonas takes the place of Daniel Radcliffe in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Jonas, in addition to being a teen idol thanks to the Jonas Brothers, also has Broadway cred, having appeared in Les Misérables, Annie Get Your Gun and Beauty and the Beast. howtosucceedbroadway.com
Also that month, Rosie Perez and David Hyde Pierce will team up in Manhattan Theatre Club’s limited engagement of the world premiere of Close Up Space.
RELATIONSHIPS ON THE SHELF
Matters of the heart are explored in three highly anticipated memoirs. In time for Valentine’s Day is the love story of Patrick Swayze and his wife. In her memoir Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward (Atria, $24), Lisa Niemi Swayze reflects on her late husband’s career and battle with pancreatic cancer.
The workings of a more fraught but ultimately no less committed relationship are explored in journalist George Gurley’s George and Hilly (Gallery Books, $15). Gurley brings us inside his head and heart as he struggles to commit to the woman who will ultimately be his wife, including the years they spend in couples counseling.
In Fairy Tale Interrupted: A Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss (Gallery Books, $25), author RoseMarie Terenzio recounts her working and personal relationship with John Kennedy Jr. during the five years she spent as his assistant and publicist.
CULINARY ARTS
Museums around the world are now feeding visitors’ literal hunger for satisfying new experiences. The days of a soggy sandwich in the dank basement have been replaced by serious chefs who are as creative about what’s on the plate as the artists whose work hangs on the walls.
• At New York City’s The Morgan Library & Museum, the intimate, 40-seat restaurant earned two stars from The New York Times, thanks to its lunch menu of seasonal fare, some of which is inspired by current exhibitions. themorgan.org
• Danny Meyer satiates visitors at the Museum of Modern Art with a café and two restaurants (one of which, The Modern, has garnered one star from Michelin and three from The New York Times), and has recently taken over brunch and lunch duty at the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well. moma.org, whitney.org
• In Paris, where museum dining has long been taken seriously, a favorite among locals is the restaurant at Palais de Tokyo, with its view out over the Seine and service until midnight. Its futuristic interior includes chairs inscribed with phrases such as “nervous breakdown” and “sex addict.” palaisdetokyo.com
• And in London, Level 7 at the Tate Modern is known not only for its vista of St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Thames and the city but also its award-winning wine list; the restaurant serves lunch, tea and dinner, with the bar remaining open all day. tate.org.uk
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