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Brooklyn photographer and writer Julia Sherman first established salad as a serious medium with her Salad for President blog. Now she's making salad with artists from around the country at t…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:34PMThursday, June 14, 2012
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) unveiled its new performing arts space on Thursday. The 40,000 square-foot Richard B. Fisher Building, or BAM Fisher, sits in the footprint of the old…
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:53PMTuesday, May 1, 2012
On Tuesday, Tony- and Emmy-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor Jim Parsons announced the nominees for the 66th annual Tony Awards.
The musical "Once" g…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:19AMMonday, April 23, 2012
Soul legend Bobby Womack, hip-hop artist Big Daddy Kane and improv troupe The Upright Citizens Brigade are among the artists who will be performing at this year's SummerStage.
The free outdo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:23PMMonday, April 16, 2012
The list of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winners is out. Among this year's winners were the late Manning Marable for his book on Malcolm X and Kevin Puts for his "Silent Night" opera. For the fir…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:30PMMonday, April 2, 2012
There are a number of happenings in the Tri-State area that mark the Titanic centennial. Among our favorites: meals recreating White Star Line menus, plays based on ship surviver testimo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMMonday, March 12, 2012
The creator of kids' versions of Broadway works, a production supervisor who has overseen more than 200 Broadway shows and a mentoring program that pairs up theater professionals with New Yo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 11:34AMFriday, March 9, 2012
To mark the one-year anniversary of Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami on Sunday, a play honoring the first responders who tended to victims of the natural disaster and nuclear mel…
SOURCE: WNYC at 01:38PMFriday, March 2, 2012
On Friday, the non-profit Obie-winning Off-Off Broadway theater company New Georges celebrates its 20th anniversary with performances, a dance party and cocktails.
Producing Artistic Directo…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMMonday, January 30, 2012
The non-profit, off Broadway Signature Theatre Company is set to open its new permanent 70,000-square-foot home on Manhattan's West Side Tuesday. Frank Gehry designed the $66-million Pershin…
SOURCE: WNYC at 11:30AMWednesday, January 4, 2012
The most expensive show on Broadway has set a new record.
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" raked in nearly $3 million last week — the highest weekly sales figure in the history of the Grea…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:52PMWednesday, December 28, 2011
The Alexander McQueen show at the Met, "Spider-Man" and "Book of Mormon" opening on Broadway, the kerfuffle around Tony Kushner's honorary degree at CUNY and an exhibit mapping out words New…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMMonday, October 31, 2011
The producers of the Broadway show "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" responded Monday to two television parodies of Spider-Man. In a sketch titled "The Diving Bell and the Butterball" that was…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:20PMTuesday, October 25, 2011
"Sleep No More," a play that's part-dance, part-art installation from the British theater group Punchdrunk, was supposed to have closed a number of times. But every time a closing date appro…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMFriday, October 14, 2011
Although the number of African American audience members has increased slightly on Broadway in the past decade, black ticketholders still make up the smallest percentage of the Great White W…
SOURCE: WNYC at 12:00AMFriday, September 30, 2011
The union for the former director of the most expensive show on Broadway, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," will head to the bargaining table with the musical's producers on Monday. The Stage…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:19PMThursday, September 29, 2011
Fifty years ago, the beat poet Allen Ginsberg published "Kaddish." The 1961 poem is about Ginsberg coming of age in Paterson, New Jersey and his troubled relationship with his mentally ill …
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:03PM 
