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Ed Sciaky, 55, the influential Philadelphia disc jockey whose passionate advocacy helped turn artists such as Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and Yes into stars, died yesterday.
Off-topic, yes... but as Billy Joel said last night (when he called in to Ed's station to reminisce about his friend), Ed Sciaky is a man who should be remembered (and will be).
And I find it fitting that a man who was the ultimate passionate music fan passed away while on a trip to New York to see two Broadway shows!
He hated "The Producers" as a movie and finally, reluctantly revisited it as a smash stage show.
For 25 years, Peter Nero, Philly Pops and great guests have been keeping it musical, professional and fresh. Check out "Broadway Showstoppers," opening tomorrow at the Kimmel.
With a quote from Donna McKechnie.
"The Producers'" comic con man was birthed in squabbling over just what Zero Mostel's character should be. Decades later, there's room on stage for a mirthful multitude of Maxes.
An uneven cast revives the creaky adaptation of Charles Dickens' tale of a pauper boy.
If a theater trip is in your holiday plans, you'll find a bounty of two dozen shows lighting up stages.
After 12 years starring in "Law & Order" and a long stage career, the actor is an official New York City institution.
Angels in America, which HBO will premiere in two big chunks at 8 tonight and next Sunday, is the best television show I've seen since starting this job in 1989, more original, more finely a…
Even the best efforts of the cast and crew can't make this musical rise above predictability.
The novelist's failure at theater inspired the work.
Polly Pen and Laurence Klavan on "Embarrassments."
There's just no telling where or under what circumstances artistic inspiration will strike, or what form it may take.
Look what happened to Greg Kotis.
Annie is selling better than any production ever presented by the Walnut Street Theatre, and before it opened Wednesday, to run through Jan. 4, two additional performances were added to accommodate demand.
Patrick Quinn may be a bit young-looking to play Oliver Warbucks, the billionaire who seeks to adopt Annie, but his assertive performance is on-target and he sings well.
The sublime cafe society entertainer may epitomize a fading era of elegance, but he's still swinging half the year in his longtime gig at Manhattan's Cafe Carlyle.
Playwright Thomas Gibbons based 'Permanent Collection' on the Barnes controversy, but invented the drama's central conflict.
The theater's musical productions danced away with a leading six Barrymore Awards for excellence. By Desmond Ryan
Four awards went to Green Violin - to Rebecca Bayla Taichman (direction), Raúl Esparza (leading actor), Frank London (original music), and David Dorfman (choreography). Broadway performer Christine Andreas took the award for leading actress in a musical for the Prince's revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey, and Romain Frugé won for supporting actor in the family show Peter Pan and Wendy.
Although the names of the winners of the Barrymore Awards for excellence in the 2002-2003 theater season will remain secret until they are announced at tomorrow night's ceremony in the Annen…
Tom McCarthy.
Charles L. Mee's "Wintertime" at McCarter.
The world first saw Death of Salesman in 1949 when it premiered here at the Locust Street Theater. The East Coast premiere of Resurrection Blues brings him back a half-century later with a vision of unrelieved moral bankruptcy.
John Tartaglia, raised in Maple Shade and Ambler, has had a hand in presenting Elmo on PBS. Now his animated face is on view as he stars in a surprising new stage hit, "Avenue Q."
