Hamilton Star Will Succeed Josh Groban in Broadway’s The Great Comet Groban departs the critically acclaimed musical in July. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
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Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director to Step Down After 17 years at the West Coast theatre, Randall Arney will focus on his directorial projects. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Theatre Under the Stars Launches Search for Artistic Director The Houston-based theatre looks for a replacement for artistic advisor Sheldon Epps. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
New York Today: New York Today: Winter Health Watch Wednesday: Keeping up with the cold, a verdict in the Etan Patz case, and the 5-cent plastic bag fee. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Annaleigh Ashford Reveals the Show You Didn’t See Backstage at Sunday The Tony winner jokes about the struggles of performing at City Center while being a brand-new mom. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Broadway’s The Present, Starring Oscar Winner Cate Blanchett, Launches Digital Lottery The production plays the Barrymore Theatre. {$excerpt:n} Source: Playbill
Neighborhood Joint: In Chinatown, a Go-To Thai Grocery For those passionate about Thai cooking, Bangkok Center Grocery offers hard-to-find ingredients like fresh kaffir lime leaves, year-round. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Feature: The Compost King of New York What happens to food scraps after the city takes them? Soon a large fraction will wind up on Long Island, where Charles Vigliotti hopes to turn them into profit. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
Crime Scene: Where Etan Patz Vanished, a Sense of Things Left Incomplete A guilty verdict may have closed the books in the 1979 murder, but emptiness lingered on the blocks of SoHo where the 6-year-old took his last steps. {$excerpt:n}…
Skating, and Scoring, for God’s Glory Out of Yeshiva University, an Orthodox Jewish college in Upper Manhattan, comes an unlikely squad of religious roller hockey players. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
All-Jewish Hockey Team Dominates Yeshiva University is now a top team in Division II of the Eastern Collegiate Roller Hockey Association, after winning the Division IV championships last year. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Op-Ed Contributors: Sanctuary Cities in Name Only “Zero tolerance” policing simply furthers Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Editorial: A Housing Solution: Lawyers for Tenants New York City is planning a wise investment by increasing funding for legal services to help tenants facing eviction. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York Times
Rare Rat-Related Disease Kills a Bronx Victim, the City Says Three people in the Grand Concourse area were infected with leptospirosis, making it the first reported cluster of the disease in New York, health officials said. {$excerpt:n} Source: New York…
Mets’ David Wright Exercising Caution About Returning to Throwing Wright, a third baseman who had season-ending disk surgery in June and continues to deal with spinal stenosis, has been in training camp for weeks but has not thrown a baseball…