THEATER
TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY - SUNDAY, JULY 2 - 3 & 5 - 7, 2019 (continuing through JULY 27)
8:00 PM TUESDAY - WEDNESDAY & FRIDAY - SATURDAY
2:00 PM SATURDAY
3:00 PM SUNDAY

Chen Shi-Zheng/Jonathan Aibel & Glenn Berger: Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise
The Shed
545 West 30th Street, Hudson Yards, Manhattan

$40-$155
https://theshed.org/program/5-dragon-spring-phoenix-rise

What is becoming the usual Shed blend of the avant and banal pop. So the piece was conceived by Chen Shi-Zheng (of The Peony Pavilion fame) (but ofMonkey: Journey to the West infame) -- but along with the guys who wroteKung Fu Panda. Songs by Sia, a veritable mistress of pop banality -- but remixed by avant-pop electricians The Haxan Cloak and Arca. OK, choregraphy by Akram Khan can't be faulted. And on the strong plus side, the story involves a secret sect in Flushing with the magical power to extend life.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Momofuku Kāwi -- the most explicitly Korean of all the Momofukus (which is not to say it's anything like straight Korean) -- makes it impossible to say that there's nothing good about Hudson Yards.