Tuned out during that Super Bowl half-time show? Then, you were probably better off waiting for the real half-time show in "Glee's" football-championship episode, "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle."
The gala for the Armitage Gone! Dance company set the stage for a 'happening' that brought together many major art-scene players.
When the National Dance Institute's new, 18,000-square-foot Center for Learning and The Arts opens, real estate mogul and NDI board member Arnold Penner is likely to get more than a few pats…
While Manhattan is known for comedy institutions like Caroline's and Comix, an ever-increasing number of venues in Brooklyn are hosting weekly comedy nights and attracting healthy crowds.
The New York Philharmonic made a flurry of announcements about its 2011-12 season on Thursday.
This week's jazz calendar leads with the triple-sax attack of Ravi Coltrane, Dave Liebman and Joe Lovano. But let's not forget Brooke Shields's cabaret debut at Feinstein's.
A new class at Syracuse University this semester offers students probably the closest thing to a history lesson from Paul or Ringo.
Wilfred Sheed managed to make a drama critic look quite a bit like a human being.
How do you make a play written in pre-Revolutionary Russia in 1900 work in America in 2011?
There were a handful of boldface names at the Cinema Society's screening of HBO's "The Sunset Limited," but the real star of the evening was Cormac McCarthy, who wrote the play on which the …
One of the nation's biggest concert and sports promoters said it is joining forces with a start-up technology company to sell tickets to events at 105 arenas and theaters, in what could bec…
With its revival of "Molly Sweeney," the Irish Repertory Theatre presents a playwright at his creative peak.
George Mathew, the founder and artistic director of Music for Life International, is presenting a concert with the American Pakistan Foundation.
Mary Helen Bowers is the person responsible for training Natalie Portman for 'Black Swan.' For the rest of us, Ms. Bowers has created Ballet Beautiful, a workout that can be taken privately …
How has playwright Rinne Groff spent her time in the 15 years since she conceived the idea for "Compulsion,' which will premiere Tuesday at the Public Theater?
Marshall Heyman hikes with the singer-songwriter-actress in Los Angeles as she prepares to return to the East Coast for a performance with the New York Philharmonic.
With several productions of his work around town, including "Lost in the Stars," legendary composer Kurt Weill takes a star turn in the city this season.
The Young Professionals Committee of the Greater New York City affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure gathered 250 friends to raise awareness for breast cancer by "Painting Wall Street Pin…
The Matisse Foundation awarded its latest donation to the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, a nonprofit organization that provides legal services to artists.
There's at least one innovation that Utah has that Manhattan doesn't: karaoke cabs. It's unfortunate, really, because it seems New Yorkers would release a lot of their anxiety and aggression…
Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of "Freud's Last Session" makes you feel as though you're part of the conversation with two intellectual giants, Freud and C.S. Lewis. It's one of the most …
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith are planning to produce a remake of the 1982 film "Annie" starring the couple's 10-year-old daughter, Willow. The film is being developed by Overbrook Enter…
In her newest book entitled “American Rose, A National Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee,” Karen Abbott explores the public body and private mind of Gypsy Rose Lee.…
The fifth-grade chorus at P.S. 22 goes Hollywood with an invitation to perform at the Academy Awards.
New York songwriter Mickey Leonard, a beloved staple of the jazz and cabaret scenes, is one of those gloriously unique New York characters who make the city what it is.