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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

SMASH: Season 1 Arrives on DVD to Welcome NBC's Premiere of SMASH: Season 2 by Ellis Nassour

Anyone who loves theater had a blast with the dreamers and schemers on SMASH Season One, in spite of its time-bending and asinine aspects, and will treasure the DVD, which sets the scene for…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:08AM

On POTO's Silver Anniversary: Remembering 1/26/1988 by Ellis Nassour

  January 26, 1988: It was one of New York's coldest, windiest nights, but outside the Majestic Theatre, there was nothing but hot excitement as hundreds of media captured the arriv…

SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:01AM
Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Can't Silence Silence! The Musical, Now Starring Stage and TV's Sean McDermott by Ellis Nassour

Silence hasn't ever been golden at Silence! The Musical, now at the Elektra Theatre and starring Sean McDermott as Hannibal Lecter.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:40AM
Friday, January 18, 2013

Live at 54 Below CD Line Debuts with Patti LuPone and Norbert Leo Butz by Ellis Nassour

Broadway Records debuts 54 Below CDs recorded live at the trendy club. No surprise that Patti LuPone debuts the line. Norbert Leo Butz sings of memory and mayhem at the club.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 01:57PM
Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Theater Bargain Time: 2-4-1 Tickets & Kids Night on Broadway by Ellis Nassour

Broadway Week and 2-4-1 tickets runs Jan. 22-Feb. 7. Belly up to box offices and no service charges (except "facilities fee"). You'll even be able to afford to eat out with restaurant deals.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 01:47PM
Monday, January 14, 2013

2012 American Theater Hall of Fame Inductions Take Place January 28 by Ellis Nassour

Tyne Daly will host.Inductees are Betty Buckley, Sam Waterston, André Bishop, Michael Kahn, Trevor Nunn, Christopher Durang, and Paula Vogel with a posthumous honor for Martin Pakledinaz.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 11:44AM
Friday, January 11, 2013

Leslie Uggams Chosen for Nightlife Awards Legend Honor at Monday's Star-Studded Show by Ellis Nassour

Tony winner, recording artist, TV legend and star of the forthcoming Lena Horne biographical musical Stormy Weather Leslie Uggams has been chosen as the Nightlife Awards’ 2013 Nightlife Le…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 04:12PM

Spend the Weekend With New DVDs and CDs, Including To Rome With Love, Chaplin & More by Ellis Nassour

There’s plenty of home entertainment to be had: the just-released DVD of Woody Allen’s latest; the tale of one of America’s greatest family feuds; orginal cast CD of Chaplin; and a dou…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:55AM
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Glee's Chris Colfer's Makes Double-Threat Film Debut With Struck by Lightning by Ellis Nassour

Colfer makes, is making his star feature film debut as actor and writer, supported by all-star ensemble, including Allison Janney, Polly Bergen, Christina Hendricks, and Dermot Mulroney.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:59AM
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Former Broadway Hoofer and Emmy-winning Hollywood Squares host Peter Marshall Plays Metropolitan Room by Ellis Nassour

Five-time Emmy-winning host, Peter Marshall of TV’s classic game show Hollywood Squares is making first major NY club dates since the '50s, January 11–14, at Metropolitan Room with And T…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 01:07PM
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Free Star-Studded Screening of Cabaret, Starring Liza Minnelli, by Ellis Nassour

  Turner Classic Movies (TCM)'s  Road to Hollywood tour will make a stop in Manhattan on January 31st for a free star-studded big-screen presentation of 1972's Oscar-winnin…

SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:01AM
Monday, January 7, 2013

Free Star-Studded Screening of Cabaret, Starring Liza Minnelli, on January 31 by Ellis Nassour

TCM’s Road to Hollywood tour stops in Manhattan on January 31st for free star-studded big-screen presentation of 1972’s Oscar-winning Cabaret,fully restored, and based on the Tony-winnin…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 04:22PM

Original Cast Members of Grease, Nine, and Grand Hotel Reunite for January 14 Kathi Moss Actors Fund Benefit by Ellis Nassour

Some are calling it “a once-in-a-lifetime event”! It’s definitely an event. Original cast members and creators from the musicals Grease, Nine, and Grand Hotel are reuniting for an Acto…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 02:16PM

Town Hall Presents the 13th Annual Nightlife Awards on January 14 by Ellis Nassour

The awards with no acceptance speeches, just performances. Updated list of winners.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:30PM
Friday, January 4, 2013

PBS Rings in 2013 with Downton Abbey, Season 3 by Ellis Nassour

The Great War is over. Mary and Matthew’s engagement has been announced. Lady Grantham’s mother arrives from New Yorkbut as Season Three unreels, all is far from tranquil. More social c…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 11:20AM
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Bucking in the New Year! Professional Bull Riders at Madison Square Garden January 4-6 by Ellis Nassour

Now that you’ve rocked in the New Year, join the Professional Bull Riders at the Monster Energy Invitational tour as the cowboys with good grips invade Manhattan for wild ‘n wooly action.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 05:03PM
Friday, December 28, 2012

Super Songstress Marilyn Maye Rings in the New Year and More by Ellis Nassour

Phenomenal Marilyn Maye will ring in the New Year at Metropolitan Room, promising "the biggest party ever" and then continue Jan. 3-9 with Marilyn by Request.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 02:09PM

Spectacular Spider-Man Packages to Celebrate the End of the Holiday Season by Ellis Nassour

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark VIP packages for the person who's impossible to shop for.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:23PM
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Spend the Holidays with Great Entertainment: Theater, Film, DVDs, CDs by Ellis Nassour

Theater tickets always are great stocking stuffers. Opening Christmas Day: Les Miserables and Django Unchained. The Missouri nuns are topping the Billboard Classical Charts.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:51PM
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

CBS Telecasts the Annual Kennedy Center Honors by Ellis Nassour

Buddy Guy, Natalia Makarova, Dustin Hoffman, David Letterman, and Led Zeppelin [John Paul Jones, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page] are inducted at the 35th annnual Honors.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 03:22PM

Radio City Music Hall Is Decked Out for the Christmas Spectacular by Ellis Nassour

The Rockettes welcome Santa to NYC and give him quite a rousing tour.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 09:42AM
Monday, December 17, 2012

Holiday Gifts That Keep Giving: Broadway in a Lavishly Illustrated Book by Ellis Nassour

Broadway Musicals: From the Pages of The New York Times isn’t some new exploration of Broadway’s past and present but the Broadway written about by six leading Times’ critics, includin…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:02PM
Friday, December 14, 2012

The Big Apple Circus's Legendarium Time Travels to Era of Big Top Shows by Ellis Nassour

NY's homegrown circus presentss 35th season with Legendarium,capturing the family fun, excitement, and thrills of circusdom in its heyday.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 05:36PM
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

At the Movies, CD and DVD Stocking Stuffers by Ellis Nassour

Streisand and Rogen take Guilt Trip; Streisand has new CD: old, unreleased tracks, "Release Me"; nd returns with more old material in February: remastered Classical CD, with two unreleased t…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:26PM
Monday, December 10, 2012

Great Performances Presents The Beatles on 12/14 by Ellis Nassour

Magical Mystery Tour Revisited is a behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of the controversial, surreal Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, with interviews with Paul McCartney and Ringo Sta…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 04:19PM

Katharine Hepburn: Dressed to Kill by Ellis Nassour

The exhibit at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts is very revealing -- and not just in the way of fashion.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 01:32PM

12-12-12 : The Concert for Sandy Relief at Madison Square Garden by Ellis Nassour

The all-star lineup for the megaconcert to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy; ticket information for area theatres closed circuit telecast.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 12:49PM
Friday, December 7, 2012

A Giant Entertainment at the Public Theater, Almost as Big as the Lone Star State by Ellis Nassour

Off Broadway, especially at a not-for-profit venue, you don’t see a big, sprawling, three-hour musical (with a cast of 25+ and 17+ musicians), but what other treatment could you expect for…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 10:28AM
Thursday, December 6, 2012

BC/EFA's Gypsy of the Year Competition Breaks Record; Judith Light Delivers Timely Remembrance; BC/EFA Reaches Out to Sandy Victims by Ellis Nassour

BC/EFA's Gypsy of the Year competition breaks fundraising Record; Judith Light in timely remembrance; BC/EFA donates to agencies to help Hurricane Sandy victims.

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 03:23PM
Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Entertaining Holiday Stocking Stuffer Ideas by Ellis Nassour

The hard-knock life's back on Broadway with Annie revival, just as Annie, the movie, returns in a sing-a-long edition; long forgotten musical Seventeen and West End Cabaret starring Judy Den…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 11:18AM
Tuesday, December 4, 2012

A Lively Guide to Impressionist Art by Ellis Nassour

The sunny landscapes and shimmering portraits of the 19th century Impressionists come alive in Waldemar Januszczak’s Understanding Art Impressionism: A Lively Guide to the Revolutionary A…

SOURCE: City Guide Magazine at 11:55AM

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