Quinn Goes to Bat for Theater Troupe Over Parking Fees
The play is apparently not the thing to catch the conscience of the New York City Department of Transportation, which has billed the Drilling Company for the parking spaces the theater troupe uses for...
View ArticleSabbath Celebrates No. 1
It’s been 43 years since Black Sabbath, the British rock band, which arguably spawned the entire heavy metal genre, first appeared on the Billboard 200 album chart. But this week it finally earned its...
View Article18 Orchestras Receive ASCAP Awards for New Music
ASCAP, the performing rights organization that collects royalties for nearly half a million composers, songwriters and publishers, will present its annual Adventurous Programming awards to 18 American...
View ArticleNew Group’s New Season Includes Beth Henley, Thomas Bradshaw Plays
The New Group on Wednesday announced two new productions as part of its 2013-14 Off Broadway season at the Acorn Theater. Beginning in October the company will present “The Jacksonian,” a dark comedy...
View ArticleCecil Taylor Wins the Kyoto Prize
The improvising pianist Cecil Taylor, a pioneering, influential and highly experimental musician and a longtime Brooklyn resident, is one of this year’s recipients of the Kyoto Prize, awarded each...
View ArticleAt a Tepid London Auction, a Small Self-Portrait Is the Star
LONDON — A brooding self-portrait that the Italian-born artist Rudolf Stingel painted in 2007 sold at Phillips auction house here on Thursday night for about $993,345, or $1.2 million with fees. The...
View ArticleO’Hara, Pasquale Will Be Leads in ‘Madison County’ on...
Four-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O’Hara will return to Broadway this winter as the lovestruck Iowa housewife Francesca in the new musical “The Bridges of Madison County,” the producers said on...
View ArticleJon Stewart as the Jon Stewart of Cairo
Jon Stewart is on a sabbatical from his duties as host of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” but that has not stopped him from appearing on television. Last week, he was a surprise guest...
View ArticleA Public Art Project That Will Travel By Train
Chartered train trips tend to conjure images of flag bunting, stump speeches and glad-handing politicians. But a cross-country whistle-stop tour now being planned as a kind of rolling public art...
View ArticleZach Braff to Make His Broadway Debut in ‘Bullets Over Broadway’
The Emmy Award-nominated actor Zach Braff (“Scrubs”) will make his Broadway debut next year in “Bullets Over Broadway,” the musical adaptation of Woody Allen’s 1994 film, the show’s producers...
View ArticleAmerican Ballet Theater Announces Fall Season
The world premiere of the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s take on Shakespeare’s “Tempest” will open the American Ballet Theater’s first fall season at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center, the...
View ArticleThis Week’s Movies: ‘World War Z,’ ‘Monsters...
In this week’s video, Times critics offer their thoughts on “World War Z,” “Monsters University” and “A Hijacking.” See all of this week’s reviews. Movies, A Hijacking (Movie), Monsters University...
View ArticleBook Review Podcast: Grading Higher Education
This week in The New York Times Book Review, Andrew Delbanco reviews two new books about the state of higher education in the U.S. Mr. Delbanco writes: More than a century ago, the president of...
View ArticlePopcast: The Idea of Bonnaroo
This week: The 12th Bonnaroo music festival, which wrapped up last Sunday in Manchester, Tenn. Bonnaroo has held steady since 2002 as one of America’s largest music festivals; it sells out most years...
View ArticleTop D.J.’s to Headline the TomorrowWorld Festival
The organizers of one of Europe’s largest electronic dance festivals plan to stage a three-day concert near Atlanta in September, and they have secured a lineup that includes most of the top D.J.’s in...
View ArticleAutopsy on Gandolfini Finds Actor Died of ‘Natural Causes,’...
An autopsy on James Gandolfini, the “Sopranos” star and actor who died on Wednesday in Italy, has found that he died of a heart attack, a spokesman for the actor’s family said on Friday. The...
View ArticleNew York City Ballet Announces Fashion-Focused Fall Gala
New York City Ballet will hold its annual fall gala celebrating dance and fashion on Sept. 19, featuring three world premieres, the company announced Thursday. Participants this year include the...
View ArticleSomething for Every Taste in Next Glimmerglass Season
As it often does, the feisty and inventive Glimmerglass Opera, in Cooperstown, N.Y., will offer a broad range of styles within a compact program during its 2014 season next summer. Its schedule, which...
View ArticleAfter Surgery, Mumford & Sons Bassist to Return to Performing
The bassist Ted Dwane of Mumford & Sons has recovered from surgery to remove a blot clot in his brain and is well enough that the band will be able to appear this weekend at a festival in...
View ArticleFrank Langella To Play ‘King Lear’ at Brooklyn Academy
Frank Langella will follow in the transatlantic footsteps of Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, playing the title role in “King Lear” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in a production imported from...
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