Upper West Side

Review: Aaron Copland as a hinge

2013-04-19 16:45:00

Times have certainly changed in Brooklyn. Streets unsafe last decade now bustle invitingly. Composers born in the borough last century couldn't get away fast enough. Composers from all over now can't move there fast enough. Thursday night at Walt Disney...

Cyndi Lauper struts onto Broadway with 'Kinky Boots'

2013-04-07 08:00:00

NEW YORK — Cyndi Lauper, garlanded in enough jewelry to make the Queen of Sheba jealous, is wondering if she should add yet another bauble. "It's a whatchamacallit, like a Sicilian good luck charm. Whaddya think?" she asks a coterie of...

It's all smiles at Cafe Grumpy

2013-03-23 08:00:00

NEW YORK — Until last year, Caf� Grumpy in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, was mostly known as a destination for the serious coffee drinker, the type of place where each modestly sized cup is individually brewed and goes for $4 a pop. Now, thanks to "Girls,...

Tony Awards 2013: Ceremony returning to Radio City Music Hall

2013-03-18 10:02:00

After two consecutive years at the Beacon Theatre on New York's Upper West Side, the Tony Awards ceremony will return to the more spacious Radio City Music Hall this year. Organizers of Broadway's biggest night announced Monday that the annual awards...

Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis meet. Discuss

2013-01-05 06:00:00

"If the whole universe had no meaning," C.S. Lewis once wrote, "we should never have found out that it had no meaning." Pithy observations like that — rooted in logical argument — have made the writer one Christian whom many agnostics and...

Charles Rosen dies at 85; pianist wrote 'The Classical Style'

2012-12-11 00:00:00

Charles Rosen, the renowned pianist and prolific writer whose award-winning book "The Classical Style" has been read by music students around the world, has died. He was 85. The New York-born musician had been suffering from cancer and died Sunday...

Critic's Notebook: Gustavo Dudamel wraps up an ambitious year

2013-01-01 00:00:00

NEW YORK — The hair jokes may have grown old, what with a slight fleck of gray peeking through his now shortened and tamed curls. The Dude nickname is pretty much over as well. And no longer is Gustavo Dudamel as tempted to head for Pink's hot dog...

Nanny, in hospital bed, pleads not guilty to murder of 2 children

2012-11-28 10:30:00

NEW YORK -- A nanny accused of stabbing to death two young children left in her care pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder Wednesday from a hospital bed, where she has been held since trying to commit suicide by slashing her own throat and wrists....

KAWS is latest artist to join Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade

2012-11-26 07:00:00

This year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featured the usual gallery of cartoon characters inflated to monstrous sizes bobbing alongside garish floats. But the parade also featured a bit of cultural subversion -- albeit of the family-friendly variety --...

Review: 'Seminar' is a sharp look at writing classes

2012-10-18 16:02:00

Masochism is the chief prerequisite for a private writing seminar with Leonard, the fearsome teacher, writer and editor conducting a mini reign of terror in Theresa Rebeck's Broadway comedy "Seminar," now at the Ahmanson Theatre. Played by Jeff...

'Hairspray' stage musical writer Mark O'Donnell dies at 58

2012-08-06 16:07:00

Mark O'Donnell, a stage and comedy writer who won a Tony Award for his musical adaptation of the John Waters movie "Hairspray," has died at 58. He collapsed Monday in the lobby of his apartment building on New York's Upper West Side, according to the...

PASSINGS: Mark O'Donnell, John Phelan, Jimmy Jones, Paul W. McCracken

2012-08-07 00:00:00

Mark O'Donnell Tony-winning co-writer of 'Hairspray' Mark O'Donnell, 58, the Tony Award-winning writer behind such quirky and clever Broadway shows as "Hairspray and "Cry-Baby," died Monday in New York. His agent, Jack Tantleff, said the writer...

The inventive Chicago guitarist tours the world with tenor saxophonist colossus Sonny Rollins, but Broom is well worth hearing as bandleader in his own right, as he recently reiterated on his album "Upper West Side Story." 8 and 10 p.m. Jan. 24 through 26; 4, 8 and 10 p.m. Jan.

2013-01-04 10:30:00

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade staff inflate the Kermit the Frog balloon in Manhattan's Upper West Side on November 21, 2012 in New York City. The 86th annual event is the second oldest Thanksgiving Day parade in the U.S.

2012-11-21 00:00:00

Director Woody Allen chats with Oscar-winning actor Jose Ferrer, right, during the production of his comedy "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy" in New York's Upper West Side on Aug. 18, 1981.

2012-09-18 13:46:00