Billy Elliot: The Musical Today the Tony nominations were announced and Billy Elliot: The Musical garnered 15 nominations, tieing the record set by The Producers in 2001. Here are all of the 2009 Tony nominees in the “top categories”: Best Musical Billy Elliot, The Musical Next to Normal Rock of Ages Shrek The Musical Best…
Category: Theatre
Coraline First Look Event Tonight at Lucille Lortel Theater
STREAM: Coraline Demos As I mentioned previously, the MCC Theater is bringing Neil Gaiman‘s Coraline to the stage featuring the music and lyrics of Magnetic Fields‘ Stephin Merritt. Tuesday night (April 21) there will be a talk back event at the Lucille Lortel Theater featuring Merritt and the creators of the musical: This event gives…
The Deli’s Best of NY Festival
Having trouble keeping track of all the music festivals happening this summer? Well, I am too, but here’s a new one you won’t want to miss, it’s The Deli’s Best of NY Festival which is happening May 6 – 10, 2009. The festival features some of The Deli’s (and NYC’s) favorite bands performing over three…
Rock of Ages Opens Tonight
Rock of Ages on Broadway If you were excited for the theatrical debuts of Spider-Man and Coraline, then you might also be pretty pumped for the newest rock musical on Broadway, Rock of Ages: In 1987 on the Sunset Strip, a small town girl met a big city rocker and in LA’s most famous rock…
WNYC Unveils The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space
New State-of-the-Art, Street-Level Studio and Performance Space in Hudson Square to Open Tuesday, April 28 with 10-Day Festival Special Guests include SARAH JESSICA PARKER, PAUL KRUGMAN, LOU REED, CORNEL WEST, IRA GLASS, SONIA SANCHEZ, ETHEL STRING QUARTET, ROSIE PEREZ, JOY BEHAR, JASON MORAN, RICHARD GOODE, SIMONE DINNERSTEIN, and ELMO, among others. The Greene Space will…
NPR Live in NYC | Prairie Home Companion and Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!
The massively popular, (and at times, painfully annoying), Prairie Home Companion will be bringing its unique brand of folksy Minnesota storytelling to the Town Hall on April 3, 4, 11, and 17 (Buy Tickets). Though a presale was held earlier in the year, some tickets for those shows are apparently still available. More live PHC…