Sweat Playwright Lynn Nottage Honored by American Academy of Arts and Letters The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright will receive the Award of Merit Medal. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
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Broadway-Bound Roman Holiday Musical Sets Complete Cast Emmy Award nominee Georgia Engel joins the new Cole Porter musical that will premiere in San Francisco this May. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Full Train Service Will Return at Penn Station on Friday An Amtrak official said the entire station’s infrastructure would be inspected after acknowledging that two recent derailments were caused by track flaws. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk’s New Musical to Kick Off Residency at 59E59 Theaters Prospect Theater Company will premiere one new musical a year for three years at the Off-Broadway theatre. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
World-Premiere of Gently Down the Stream, Starring Harvey Fierstein, Opens April 5 The production, directed by Sean Mathias, plays at the Public Theater Off-Broadway. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
What Did Lindsay Mendez Love Most About Playing Elphaba? On Playbill’s The Tyler Mount Vlog, the Significant Other star chats her latest Broadway show and answers questions from fans. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
How the Late Gary Austin, Founder of the Groundlings, Inspired the L.A. Theatre Community The improv pioneer helped foster the careers of several comedians, including Kristen Wiig and Paul Reubens. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Snaps for Opening Night: Present Laughter’s Tedra Millan Gets Glam The actor makes her Broadway debut in the Nöel Coward comedy starring Kevin Kline, Cobie Smulders, and Kate Burton. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Karen Ziemba to Star in Horton Foote’s The Travelling Lady The 1955 play will be revived at the Cherry Lane Theatre Off-Broadway this summer. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Show Us Your Wall: Arnold Lehman, Former Museum Chief, Finally Gets to Talk About Art The former director of the Brooklyn Museum said people called one work his “autobiography” — when it’s viewed from different angles, words like “neurotic” appear.…
Turning 107, and Sipping (Brandy) From His Bronx ‘Fountain of Youth’ Joe Binder, a fixture on Arthur Avenue, celebrated his birthday early in the Italian neighborhood where he has livened up establishments by singing and telling jokes. {$excerpt:n} Source: New…
New York Today: New York Today: The City and the Great War Thursday: World War I in New York, lamenting the transit problems, and a study on subway ridership. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Murder in the 4-0: In the South Bronx, Lives Marred and Erased by Firearms Two men survived shootings in the South Bronx, where violent crime is aided by an unending tide of guns. But when they ran into each other…
In Letter to Amtrak, Christie Says N.J. Transit Will Halt Payments In a separate letter, Gov. Chris Christie also asked his attorney general to consider “appropriate legal action” to recover millions that New Jersey Transit had paid to Amtrak. {$excerpt:n}…
Cuomo Hails Progress on Budget, but a Long Easter Break Beckons Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said he and New York lawmakers had agreed on issues like free tuition at state schools, opioid treatment and the so-called millionaire’s tax. {$excerpt:n} Source:…