Wednesday, December 6, 2023
The great-grandnephew of Bram Stoker has written a comic version of “Dracula” that is appearing Off Broadway.
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Ebenezer Stevens was among those who boarded three British ships in a symbolic act that helped jump-start the American Revolution.
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Naomi Pierre will appear in Shakespeare in the Park this weekend and thinks of the character she plays as a teenager like herself.
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John Rubinstein rides his bike to the theater where he plays the president he met years ago. And, an unwitting homeowner at an epic toxic waste site.
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When the Stephen Sondheim musical opened in 1987, a huge boot hung over the theater’s facade. The producers of the current revival would love to get it back.
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The longtime announcer for “Live From Lincoln Center,” he said he wanted his audience “to become involved, to love what they’re hearing.”
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Scott Siegel, who stages the “Broadway by the Year” series at Town Hall, was hurt in a bicycle accident last year. But the show must go on.
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Ishmael Reed, who became a MacArthur fellow 17 years before Lin-Manuel Miranda, questions why Native Americans were left out of the show, for one thing.
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For more than 270 performances in 1961 and 1962, the face that Henry Higgins grew accustomed to was Margot Moser’s. She was the first American to play Eliza Doolittle regularly on Broadway.
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The Hudson Theater, home to a stage adaptation of “1984,” serves drinks in real glasses, not the plastic ones used by most other Broadway theaters.
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At 89, after a lifetime of soaring high notes and a few low ones, it was time for her to leave the stage, her son says.
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A museum researcher has unearthed a performance of “The Glass Menagerie” starring Shirley Booth, that will be broadcast on Turner Classic Movies.
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At the Players club in Manhattan, a producer of the musical “Cagney” and the show’s star swap stories about the pugnacious actor and his surprising hobbies.
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Mr. Sieber, a veteran of the Broadway stage, had never done what many New York actors do, namely appear on the show ‘Law & Order’ or one of its spinoffs. Until now.
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Ed Schmidt, a playwright and performer known for staging productions inside his home, is using the former site of La Salle Academy in the East Village for his latest one-man show.
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After making his mark backstage on shows like “My Fair Lady,” Mr. Liff became an agent whose clients included Julie Andrews, Angela Lansbury and Chita Rivera.
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At the Schuyler-Hamilton House in New Jersey, the docent turns a historic site into a current treasure, highlighting three sisters whom she called the Kardashians of 1780.
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Tom Santopietro has made a near-career filling in for other people on Broadway, not as an understudy, but as a substitute for house managers and company managers.
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Usually when someone dies, there are encomiums about how kind, generous and loving the person was. This is not going to be like that.
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The Broadway star Elaine Stritch is irascible and indomitable and, to theatergoers of a certain age or mind-set, irresistible. And now, at 88, she is leaving the city she loves.
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The restaurant moved closer to interior landmark designation when the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission agreed to schedule a review hearing.
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Something got twisted about a minute after Seth Cotterman turned on a machine that was no longer new when he was born in 1989.
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The composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was enlisted to devise a treasure hunt at the American Museum of Natural History for a charity. Later, he managed to hide himself, too.
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Monday, February 28, 2011
For a fire safety video, the Flying Karamazov Brothers juggled torches inches from the face of the city's fire chief.
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Tom Santopietro has made a near-career filling in for other people on Broadway, not as an understudy, but as a substitute for house managers and company managers.
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