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UPDATE: 'Kinky Boots' kicks up 13 Tony nominations (with list)
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The Cyndi Lauper-scored “Kinky Boots" has earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations, with the British import “Matilda: The Musical” close behind with 12. “Kinky Boots” is based on the 2005 British movie about a real-life shoe factory that struggles until it finds new life in fetish footwear.
NEW YORK
Yo Adrian! Musical 'Rocky' coming to Broadway in 2014
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
It’s been a knockout in Germany. Now Sylvester Stallone hopes a musical based on his beloved boxing film “Rocky” will also be a hit on Broadway.
ALBANY
Tulip Queen finalists to be introduced Wednesday
Monday, April 29, 2013
Mayor Jerry Jennings and Tulip Festival Chair Marcus Pryor will introduce the five finalists for 2013 Tulip Queen at a press conference Wednesday.
LOS ANGELES
‘Iron Man 3’ has huge overseas debut before U.S. release
Sunday, April 28, 2013
“Iron Man 3” was the heavy lifter at theaters overseas with a colossal debut abroad that overshadowed a gang of mercenary bodybuilders in a sleepy pre-summer weekend at the domestic box office.
Asian-American thrilled to have featured role in ‘Les Misérables’
Sunday, April 28, 2013
The son of Filipino immigrants, Devin Ilaw always had a hankering for the theater. He realized early on, however, that landing a lead role in a Broadway musical might be unlikely. “I really didn’t think that this would happen for me, and I feel blessed to have the opportunity,” said Ilaw, who plays Marius in the national touring production of “Les Misérables,” coming to Proctors Tuesday.
Self-publishing book online thrusts writer onto best-seller lists
Sunday, April 28, 2013
With family and friends asking to read the emotional tale of first love, Colleen Hoover, the married mother of three young boys living in rural East Texas and working 11-hour days as a social worker, decided to digitally self-publish on Amazon, where they could download it free for a week.
Cuba Gooding Jr. makes professional stage debut
Sunday, April 28, 2013
“This is what made me fall in love with acting. Now it’s like I’m living that again and I finally feel awakened,” Cuba Gooding Jr. says. “That euphoria of doing roles is what I was born from.” He co-stars in the revival of Horton Foote’s masterpiece “The Trip to Bountiful” at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.
TROY
Review: Shimabukuro wows audience at Troy Savings Banks Music Hall
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro exploded even the loftiest of expectations with a performance of towering technical prowess and warmly engaging charm.
ALBANY
Review: ASO’s preliminary for Carnegie Hall brilliant, stylish
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Saturday night’s Albany Symphony Orchestra concert at the Palace Theatre was a prelude to bigger things, as it will perform May 7 at Carnegie Hall as part of the 3rd annual Spring for Music festival.
Band cues acts, adds excitement as clowns, ‘Dragons’ do their stuff
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Circus dragons aren’t going to make that much noise at the Times Union Center next week. Circus musicians will handle the chore. When elephants march, acrobats fly and Shaolin martial artists break wood and metal, Wages Argott and his band will provide aural thrills.
‘Abolitionist Spirit’ subject of play about Union College
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Schenectady’s 19th century history will come back to life tonight at the city’s First United Methodist Church in an original play, “We Are Our Brothers Keepers — Early Schenectady Voices: The Union College Relationship With the Abolitionist Spirit, 1800-1865,” written by Marsha Mortimore and Leslie D. Williams.
SCHENECTADY
Review: Cirque Zuma Zuma wastes its talent at Proctors
Friday, April 26, 2013
Cirque Zuma Zuma played its African beat with enthusiasm Friday night at Proctors, but the ensemble of dancers, acrobats, jugglers and tumblers didn’t always have the production values, and sometimes skill, to match their frothy zeal to entertain.
ALBANY
Review: Kotke entertains at Egg with music, stories
Friday, April 26, 2013
Along with an advanced sense of blues and folk, Kotke has a developed classical style.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Country music legend George Jones dies at 81
Friday, April 26, 2013
The peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” has died in Nashville.
‘Mud’ is an exotic slice of backwater Southern life
Friday, April 26, 2013
The cinema’s leading purveyor of Southern Gothic, Jeff Nichols, hands Matthew McConaughey his latest tour de force turn in “Mud,” a down and dirty if entirely-too-long mythic melodrama in the “Tobacco Road” tradition.
