Contributed by Susan Chen (Yale, 2020)
Midtown NY Election Party Hell
“The Crossroads of the World will be turned into the Seventh Circle of Hell on election night when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump host dueling ‘victory’ parties about 20 blocks from each other.
“He’ll spend the last night of this ugly campaign at the Hilton on Sixth Ave. She’ll be at the Javits Center. You’ll be stuck at the corner of W. 46th and Deliverance.
“Even under the best circumstances, Midtown Manhattan is New York’s no-fly zone, the place where no real person goes unless he has tickets to a play or somehow ended up leading out-of-town relatives through the biggest tourist trap this side of Patpong Road.” [. . .] –Gersh Kuntzman, New York Daily News, November 4, 2016
Michael Counts, Paradiso: Chapter I, immersive theater (2016)
[…] “Illusion is a staple in all kinds of theater, but it is doubly vital to Paradiso, a suspense thriller that is also a game. Using a structure that borrows from Dante’s Divine Comedy, it has a vibe that, in Mr. Counts’s telling, owes something to Ridley Scott’s futuristic classic Blade Runner and the TV drama Mr. Robot.
“With a plot that involves a conspiracy, it’s a narrative-driven twist on the increasingly popular escape-room genre of participatory entertainment. According to convention, a group of people is closed in a room, or sequence of rooms, with a single collective aim: to solve a series of puzzles in under an hour. Their prize is liberty — which, it’s true, will come at the end of the hour either way.” […] –Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times, July 7, 2016
“PARADISO: Chapter 1 drops audience members (10 at a time) into a noir-ish nightmare that combines the surreal mystery of Stanley Kubrik with the stylized futuristic terror of Blade Runner into a one hour immersive theatrical Escape Room experience set in and inspired by the heart of New York’s Korea Town. Featuring a cast of dozens, highly designed sets with state-of-the-art special effects and the next generation of puzzles and mind-bending challenges, this immersive attraction is unlike anything audiences have ever seen or experienced.” –from the Paradiso: Chapter I FAQs
Contributed by Emma Pyle (Bowdoin, ’12)
Dante: Restaurant-Bar and Ice Cube
[…] “Preserved in ice. Gaze down at the huge ice cube floating in your old-fashioned at Dante, the Italian-style aperitif bar in Greenwich Village, and you’ll have no doubt about where you’re drinking. Cut into the side of the frozen block is the bar’s poetic name.” […] –Robert Simonson, New York Times, May 15, 2015
Read more about Dante’s award-winning success here.
Dante: 79-81 Macdougal Street, NY, NY 10012
Valentino Dress at the Met Gala 2016
Rachel McAdams in a gold-beaded Valentino dress with lines from Dante’s Divine Comedy. —US Magazine, May 2, 2016
Contributed by Donatella Stocchi-Perucchio
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