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The Drama League Theater Center is to be located at 32 Avenue of the Americas, on the lobby level of the former AT&T building, and is scheduled to open toward the end of the year.
An ordered end to the institute's international focus sparks concerns that its collaborations with American arts institutions could be in jeopardy.
"Viva Forever!" is the idea of Judy Craymer, who produced "Mamma Mia," the musical based on the music of ABBA which opened in London in 1999 and is still running there.
Europe's economic problems, and the austerity programs meant to address them, are forcing arts institutions there to curtail programs, tours and grants.
He will succeed Michael Boyd, who announced in September that he would step down this fall.
The rising Spanish flamenco-soul singer Pitingo was to have made his U.S. debut Friday night at the Manhattan Center, and the avant-garde Czech theater troupe known as Tantehorse had a run a…
The Pershing Square Foundation has given $25 million to the Signature Theater, whose new home will now be renamed the Pershing Square Signature Center. The gift will also allow Signature to …
Shakespeare in the Park 2012 will feature the Stephen Sondheim musical "Into the Woods" as well as Shakespeare's "As You Like It," starring Lily Rabe.
It will end its run on Jan. 28.
The Times Square International Theater Festival will run Jan. 16-22 and will feature works from three continents.
Jennifer Lim, the Hong Kong-born, Yale-trained star of David Henry Hwang's "Chinglish," relishes the role of her dreams.
Nathan Englander play "The Twenty Seventh Man' postponed till November at Public Theater
The program will be offered next fall.
The Freedom Theater students of Juliano Mer Khamis, who was assassinated this year on the West Bank, are bringing an adaptation in Arabic of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" to the Mille…
The Eagles frontman discusses changes in copyright law that allows artists to reclaim ownership of recordings issued after Jan. 1, 1878.
Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic, has vowed to restore free concerts in the city's parks next year after the orchestra's decision to suspend the series this summer.
Mr. Marable was the author of a long-awaited new biography of Malcolm X to be published Monday and director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University.
Esperanza Spalding, who last month won the Grammy for best new artist, will perform on two of the festival's three days of shows in August.
His album sells 204,000 copies its first week, continuing a recent recovery from slow sales at the start of the year.
With their political status still unclear back in their homeland, members of the Belarus Free Theater will be returning to New York next month for a five week run at La MaMa.
With their political status still unclear back in their homeland, members of the Belarus Free Theater will be returning to New York next month for a five week run at La MaMa.
He says news reports of his retirement "paint a picture of me that is more than a little distorted." He prefers to think of it as a "time out."
The Brooklyn theater company the Brick presents a four-week festival of contemporary Iranian plays.
The inaugural Governors Ball Music Festival is scheduled for June 18.
"Pink Friday," the debut CD by this 26-year-old singer, sold 45,000 copies last week -- up 18 percent from the previous week and enough to nudge cumulative sales past one million.
