Performance News

Lana Del Rey's certainly got people talking! Her deer-on-Quaaludes performance this past Saturday has her up nominated for "Worst Saturday Night Live Performance." No less an authority than all-star rock critic NBC's Brian Williams declared her incompetence.

Same sensitive brand of badass, different jacket. If you liked Drive and that handsome lad of yore who died driving, behold: Posters for Movies From an Alternate Universe by Peter Stults.

The Argentine writer and director Mariano Pensotti sets multiple stories in motion in his smart and smartly staged play "El Pasado Es un Animal Grotesco" . And they really are in motion: the circular plywood stage, divided into four compartments, revolves constantly , as episodes from the lives of four characters are acted out.

Left to right, top to bottom: Julian Lage, Wynton Marsalis, Billy Childs, Lizz Wright, Angelique Kidjo and Dianne Reeves.