Fire and Air could not have looked more promising –a starry cast performing a new play by Terrence McNally about one of the most celebrated of dance companies, the Ballets Russes. Picasso, Matisse, and Coco Chanel designed their sets; Debussy, Stravinsky, and Richard Strauss composed their music. George Balanchine created nine of their ballets when in his twenties.
And at the center of the Ballets Russes was its impresario Sergei Diaghilev; its greatest dancer Vaslav Nijinksy; and the tempestuous relationship between the two.
Who better to dramatize all this than the playwright who won one of his four Tony Awards for Master Class, presenting the opera singer Maria Callas as impetuous, passionate, enlightening and inspiring?

Full review at DC Theatre Scene

James Cusati-Moyer as Nijinsky

Marin Mazzie, Douglas Hodge, Marsha Mason in Fire and Ice,

Douglas Hodge and James Cusati-Moyer as Diaghilev and Nijinsky in Fire and Ice

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Fire and Air CAST & CREATIVE for Fire and Air Cast Massine Jay Armstrong Johnson Misia Marin Mazzie Diaghilev Douglas Hodge Dima John Glover Dunya Marsha Mason Nijinsky James Cusati-Moyer Creative Written by Terrence McNally Director and Designer John Doyle Costume Designer Ann Hould-Ward Lighting Designer Jane Cox Sound Designer