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The construction of One World Trade Center, formerly Freedom Tower, as it was constructed from 2004 to 2013. Tagged: Freedom Tower, One World Trade Center
They have their new Rocky They have their new (19th?) Sally Bowles. Michelle Williams and Il Divo are making their debuts; Neil Patrick Harris has set the date; Harvey Fierstein has a new pl…
Ticket Giveaway: Win tickets to any two shows on the list of 20at20. The 20at20 program is a bi-annual celebration of Off-Broadway.  From now until September 22, 2013, some 4…
New plays by both August Wilson and Horton Foote, both of whom have been dead for years? The return of Sarah Jessica Parker and Betty Buckley — and Mandy Patinkin — to the stage?…
The director of "Amelie,"Â Jean-Pierre Jeunet said he was "disgusted" by the plans to turn his film into a Broadway musical, selling his rights only because he wanted to give the money to…
Test how well you were paying attention to the New York theater news in August with these ten questions, culled from New York Theater blog's weekly summaries.
Broadway Week, which runs September 2 to 15, and http://20at20.com/ 20 At 20, September 22 to 22, both offer theatergoers steep discounts. Also offering discounted tickets: Season of…
Seventeen of the most popular shows from the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival will be presented in two separate Encore series this year. Solo in the City at the Baruch Performing …
“After tallying more than 27,000 public votes, The Humane Society of the United States is pleased to announce the winners of our Chimpanzee Art Contest. “ …”Brent is …
Architect Pam Campbell, who was in charge of the renovation of the Stephen Sondheim Theater, where The Trip to Bountiful is currently showing, takes us on a tour to point out the environment…
The news that both Justin Bieber and the boy band One Direction have launched their own lines of perfumes  is not just odd, embarrassing and baffling. It’s also inspiring. If these …
On 28 August, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the following speech at the March on Washington: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demons…
In his twenties, Ruben Santiago-Hudson saw "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," the first play by August Wilson that appeared on Broadway, and "I was smitten, captured, put in a spell,” he says…
Waiting for Waiting for Godot, a comedy about life on stage, was one of the three winners of the New York International Fringe Overall Play Excellence Awards, and Gertrude Stein Saints!, …
“God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other…”~Julie Harris (1925-2013), often called the first lady of the American theater, who died on Saturday …
Julie Harris has died at the age of 87. She was a veteran of film and television, and some three dozen plays on Broadway, for which she won an unprecedented five Tony Awards. “Joan of …
In Motown the Musical, his fifth Broadway show, Eric LaJuan Summers , plays six roles: a member of the Four Tops a member of the Contours songwriter Brian Holland a member of The Jackson 5, …
A day after Sardi’s restaurant unveiled the portrait of Cuba Gooding Jr., who made his Broadway debut in “The Trip To Bountiful,” the show announced he will give his final …
Many pick "Once" or "Phantom of the Opera" as their most romantic theatrical experience, but Lourdes Pagan picks Pippin and, after hearing her story, most would surely agree. She went to the…
Zachary Quinto, who is about to make his Broadway debut in the 7th Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” offers a one-minute discourse on the di…
None of the cast of the new Broadway production of "The Glass Menageries" was impressed with Tennessee Williams' play when they first read it in school — not Zachary Quinto, not Ch…
Few would dispute how important the right cast is to a show. Would “The Nance” worked as well with Nathan Lane, or “Assembled Parties” without Judith Light and Jessic…
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time ~ Thomas Merton Spider-Man was back in the news this past week several times, and not, on balance, in a good way. “…
Mae West was born on August 17, 1893, and while she’s now known primarily as a movie star, she debuted on Broadway shortly after her 18th birthday, which was long before her Hollywood …
Nearly every show I saw during the first week of the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival gave me a measure of satisfaction — unusual for the Fringe. In other words, I lucked ou…
