The Neediest Cases: From College Hopes to Immigrant Travails, Neediest Cases Had Global Reach Donations were up for the fund-raising campaign in 2016-17, as the fund again showed how even modest giving can greatly improve lives. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
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The Neediest Cases: How Readers Helped Soccer Player on Next Leg of His Journey When Idi Diallo shared his story in December, he was living in a shelter with dreams of playing soccer and going to college. Readers have helped…
Spend a Two Show Day at Sunday in the Park With George Claybourne Elder shows us what it's like to do a double-duty day at the newly renovated Hudson Theatre. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: April 8 {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
How Laura Linney Got Cynthia Nixon a Dream Role Three-time Tony nominee Linney and Tony winner Nixon tackle two roles on alternating nights in The Little Foxes. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
16 Shows Fred Ebb Brought to Broadway The late Chicago and Cabaret lyricist Fred Ebb was born April 8, 1928. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
What’s Hot in London: April 8–14 Oslo will transfer to the National, and see what critics thought of the revivals of 42nd Street and The Goat . {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Budget Deal Comes Together in Albany, After Delay and Frustration The $153 billion includes tuition-free education at state colleges, along with changes to workers’ compensation and the juvenile justice system. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Three Brooklyn Clinics, 6.3 Million Oxycodone Pills and 13 Indictments Several physicians and a former Brooklyn assemblyman are among those accused in a $24 million drug conspiracy and Medicaid fraud. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Glenn O’Brien, Writer and Editor Who Gained Fame With Warhol, Dies at 70 After being invited by Andy Warhol to work on his magazine, Mr. O’Brien’s 15 minutes in the New York spotlight lasted more than 40 years. {$excerpt:n} Source:…
Anger Over Principal Prompts Parents to Occupy East Harlem School Overnight The refusal of a group of Central Park East I parents to leave the building after a meeting Thursday night is the latest chapter in a dispute that raises…
Significant Other Sets Closing Date On Broadway The new work from Joshua Harmon plays the Booth Theatre. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Carmine Marino, a Former CUNY Official, Is Accused of Stealing ,000 From Tuition Accounts Marino, who held several positions at the City University of New York, has been charged with embezzlement and fraud, federal and state investigators said. {$excerpt:n} Source:…
Retail Payrolls Sustain a New Blow as Shopping Habits Shift General merchandise stores shed 34,700 jobs in March, a new sign of the challenges facing brick-and-mortar merchants with the rise of online commerce. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Masha Leon, Society Columnist and Holocaust Survivor, Dies at 86 Ms. Leon survived harrowing childhood escapes from grim pre-ghetto Warsaw and Communist Siberia to mingle years later with New York’s glitterati as a writer for the world’s oldest Yiddish newspaper.…