Tag: theater
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Small Midtown theaters stay afloat with post-pandemic grants
A nonprofit helps small performing arts venues stay open.
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Off-Broadway program offers support to actors with kids
The Playwrights Realm production stands out for its support of cast and crew members with children.
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The Role of Intimacy Directors on Broadway
As more intimacy directors join Broadway shows, industry professionals want more diversity and qualifications.
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Broadway is Bustling; Sensory-Friendly Shows, Not So Much
The COVID-19 pandemic has created challenges for the Theatre Development Fund, threatening the number of sensory-friendly Broadway performances it produces.
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Black Broadway Artists Make History While Challenging Racial Norms in Theater
A record number of Black productions are debuting on Broadway this year, a sign that the theater industry is finally becoming inclusive.
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Hamilton cast draws voter registration crowd
Cast members from the hit musical “Hamilton” drew crowds as they registered people to vote.
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City’s only theater for the disabled takes on a new challenge
Theater Breaking Through Barrier’s new production, The Granduncle Quadrilogy, is more physically challenging for its cast members than its traditional repertoire. The group has just brought the play to Croatia.
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Midtown Traditions
Midtown West is rich in holiday tradition. Here is the Gazette’s wide-ranging list of offerings.
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East Meets West: Taiwanese Actress Debuts Off-Broadway
Living between American culture and Taiwanese culture, a new actress in off-Broadway found the contradiction not only in the character she played, but in her real life.
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Playwrights’ Week Returns to the Lark for its Nineteenth Year
Last week, the Lark Play Development Center gave seven playwrights the chance to workshop a new play in ten hours of rehearsal and one public reading. At the end, the writers walked away having heard their pieces aloud, with a stack of written audience comments.
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I Saw The Book of Mormon for $28, On The Day I Wanted To Go
I waited over six hours in line to understand the culture of obsessed South Park followers and Broadway fans alike, who put their lives on hold to get tickets to The Book of Mormon, even if it means standing up inside the theater as well.
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Clinton Theater Seeks ‘Legal’ Status
The Emerging Artists Theatre Company has been trying to lease a space on 45th St. since last February. But first, it must change the building’s decades-old certificate of occupancy.
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The Gold Angel of the Helen Hayes Theater
At 255 West 43rd Street, two cupids and one angel coated in gold paint live in the lobby of the Common Ground Community’s residence, The Times Square. Saved from the façade of the original Helen Hayes Theatre, the figures keep a protective watch over the residents, according to 10-year tenant Jim Davis. Davis arrived some…
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What Ever Happened to Helen Hayes?
With a cornice of frowning faces, a tapestry of alternating terra cotta panels, and a 10 feet by 80 feet mural, the First Helen Hayes Theatre was truly fabulous. It was torn down in 1982 to make way for the Marriot Marquis, but remnants of it may still have a chance to live on: the…
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Where Theatre Once Stood, a Hotel Looms
The Marriot Marquis in Times Square is known to many as one of the largest hotels in Manhattan, but to theatre-lovers it is known as the former site of the Helen Hayes Theatre. We revisit what made the theatre special — so special, in fact, that it inspired protests when developers announced it was going…
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Unusual Grant Program Pays For Babysitting at the Theater
Over the past two years, a fee on certain transactions between theaters and high-rise developers has funded a city grant program that contributes to theater-related programs.
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Irish Rep Theatre Gets Lifetime Achievement Award
Actor Gabriel Byrne presents Irish Rep Theatre founders Ciaran O’Reilly and Charlotte Moore with the Irish American Writers and Artists Lifetime Achievement Award at a cocktail reception in Rosie O’Grady’s restaurant.
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