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17 stories by "Abbie Fentress Swanson"

Salad-Making Is Performance Art At The Getty In Los Angeles by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 9:34pm on November 9, 2015

New Arts Space to Open in Fort Greene, Brooklyn by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 1:53pm on June 14, 2012

Musical 'Once' Leads 2012 Tony Award Nominations by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 8:19am on May 1, 2012

Bobby Womack, Big Daddy Kane and UCB to Perform at SummerStage by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 12:23pm on April 23, 2012

2012 Pulitzer Prize Winners by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 3:30pm on April 16, 2012

12 Ways to Commemorate the Titanic Centennial by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 12:00am on April 2, 2012

Theater Excellence Tony Award Winners Announced by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 11:34am on March 12, 2012

Play About Japan Tsunami First Responders Staged for Anniversary by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 meltd…

SOURCE: WNYC at 1:38pm on March 9, 2012

Theater Groups Beat Recessions, 20 Years in Business Off-Off Broadway by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 12:00am on March 2, 2012

Signature Theatre to Open Permanent New Home on West Side by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 11:30am on January 30, 2012

'Spider-Man' Sets New Weekly Sales Record on Broadway by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 Great …

SOURCE: WNYC at 3:52pm on January 4, 2012

2011 Year in Review: The Year in Arts and Culture by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 12:00am on December 28, 2011

'Spider-Man' Producers Respond to Spidey Halloween Spoofs by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 3:20pm on October 31, 2011

The Insatiable Appetite for 'Sleep No More' by Abbie Fentress Swanson

"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 12:00am on October 25, 2011

'The Mountaintop' Attracts a More Diverse Audience to Broadway by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 12:00am on October 14, 2011

Julie Taymor's Union Enters Arbitrations with the Producers of 'Spider-Man' by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 3:19pm on September 30, 2011

Allen Ginsberg's 'Kaddish' Gets the One-Man Show Treatment by Abbie Fentress Swanson

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 4:03pm on September 29, 2011
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