Time to break out your martini shaker, eat a Magnolia cupcake and slip on your Manolo Blahnick's - the "Sex and the City" movie has finally hit the theaters. Though Manhattan residents have been tri....
Sunday was National Tap Day, so tap dancers and their admirers gathered around the US to celebrate the American dance form. Here in New York, top-hat wearing tappers in sequins remembered tap dancer....
Robert Rauschenberg the artist whose use of everyday materials --- made him pioneer in pop art died yesterday at age 82. His talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance. He was known....
It was 50 years ago yesterday that a group of dancers who eventually became the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater took the stage for the first time. Yesterday morning, Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist C....
Jonathan Stone works with Asian art at Christie's, where viewing has opened for a series of important sales. He says the collection several exceptional pieces. STONE: There's a really spectacular 1....
Officials in North Korea are tearing down the anti-American posters that normally line the streets of the capital Pyongyang in preparation for the New York Philharmonic's unprecedented visit. REPORT....
REPORTER: The director, Frenchman Michel Gondry is a master of low-tech movies - often building his sets from cardboard and trash. That do-it-yourself ethos drives the plot of "Be Kind Rewind." Whe....
The struggle to save artists' studios at Carnegie Hall took a star turn today. The actor John Turturro appeared with other performers at a City Hall rally. REPORTER: They're urging Mayor Bloomberg t....
The Apollo Theater is looking to reach even deeper pockets. The legendary theatre announced the public phase of a major capital campaign aimed at courting new donors, to help raise ninety-six-millio....
Earlier this month, the city unveiled a proposal for restoring old-time glory and glitz back to Coney Island. The city's zoning plan comes in the wake of another proposal by a shopping-center develop....
It's day 17 of the stagehands strike. After a 20 hour marathon negotiating session yesterday, the Local One, the stagehands union and the League of American Theaters and producers are sitting down ag....
Broadway's shut down by the ongoing strike, but there's no shortage of offerings outside of the Great White Way. John Rockwell is a long time cultural critic. He stopped by a new acrobatic circus s....
The stagahands union, Local One, is still on strike after negotiators failed to reach an agreement in the 9 day old labor dispute. Broadway businesses continue to feel the affects of the strike. REP....
The Stagehands' Union and the League of American Theaters and Producers are set to resume negotiations this weekend. REPORTER: Over two dozen Broadway theaters have been dark for the past week follo....
Norman Mailer, the Pulitzer Prize Winning novelist and journalist died today. He was 84 years old. REPORTER: Mailer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn. He became a national....
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