Photos: Tooting Arts Club’s Sweeney Todd Opens at the Barrow Street Theatre The immersive production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical thriller, directed by Bill Buckhurst, has been reset within a working pie shop. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
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In Ken Ludwig’s ‘Murder on the Orient Express,’ a Dead Man and a Writer on the Rails Mr. Ludwig is bringing a famous Agatha Christie mystery to the stage at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
Ike Holter and Marina Carr Are Recipients of Windham-Campbell Prizes The Yale University literary award recognizes excellence in fiction, poetry, and drama. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Jerry Birbach, Leader of Fight to Block Poor Tenants in Queens, Dies at 87 Mr. Birbach’s battle against a low-income housing project in Forest Hills in 1972 augured a white middle-class backlash to the liberal urban agenda and helped propel…
Patina Miller Announces Pregnancy The Tony winner is expecting her first child with husband David Mars. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
See London’s Newest Matildas Learn the Trapeze The West End production welcomes three young stars in the title role. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Daniel Breaker Will Join Chicago Cast of Hamilton The Tony nominee will step into the production in April. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
New York Today: New York Today: Treasures of Chambers Street Thursday: The city’s Municipal Archives, windy weather, and a women-only hotel. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
N.Y.C. Nature: An Imperiled, Hidden Orchid Waits Out the Cold Of the 10 orchid relatives still found within the New York City limits, only Goodyera pubescens, the downy rattlesnake plantain, stays green all year. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
New Jersey Area Rising Around Transit Hub Lacks One Thing: Its Hub In North Brunswick, new townhouses, restaurants and stores are being built along the nation’s busiest rail corridor. But no ground has been broken on the community’s promised train…
The Hunt: Two Bedrooms and a Terrace in Brooklyn Heights A Canadian couple started in Manhattan, but ended up in Brooklyn, after enduring multiple bidding wars. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Want to Live in Grey Gardens? It Can Be Yours for Million Sally Quinn has decided to sell the fabled East Hampton house whose occupants have been the subject of both a documentary and a Broadway musical. {$excerpt:n} Source: New…
With Anti-Semitic Acts in Headlines, Cuomo Plans to Visit Israel Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo tells Orthodox Jewish students in Albany that he will make a quick weekend trip, focused on economic development. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Mayor Picks Ex-CUNY Official for Campaign Finance Board Frederick P. Schaffer, who retired in December as CUNY’s top lawyer, will lead a board that provides matching funds to candidates and penalizes campaigns for financial improprieties. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Broadway’s Six Degrees of Separation Meets the Press Allison Janney, John Benjamin Hickey, and Corey Hawkins star in the revival. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill