Amanda Angel

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Obie Awards: Top 5 Things to Know About Annie Baker

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

29-year-old playwright Annie Baker was the big winner at Monday's Obie Awards, which honor the best of Off-Broadway. 

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Top 5 Al Fresco Music Festivals

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The spring concert season may be coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean the music stops. Instead, it heads outdoors. Check out our list of the top five outdoor area concert festivals this summer.

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Top 5 Plays about Art and Artists

Monday, May 10, 2010

Arguing over aesthetics can make for good drama. Painters from Vermeer to Pollock have been subjects of biopics. Both Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George (selection of which are featured in Sondheim on Sondheim) and Art by Yasmina Reza reaped Tony Awards, and a number of current plays are trying to repeat their success.

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Top 5 Shows (at least partially) in Drag

Monday, May 03, 2010

Whether it’s cross-dressing, drag, or transgender characters, the New York stage has welcomed all kinds of gender ambiguity. Of course the theater has blurred lines between the sexes even before Shakespeare cast men as his female leads.

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Five Top Conservatories Offer Year End Performances

Monday, April 12, 2010

As the academic year comes to an end, conservatory students are unveiling the fruits of their studies in concerts, recitals and operas around New York. Check out events at five top co...

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Top 5 @ 105 Musical Marathons

Monday, April 05, 2010

A piece of music that contains an opera for every day of the week and takes 29 hours to perform? It's only one of the compositions on WQXR's Top 5 @ 105 list of musical marathons.

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April Fools'! Five Musical Jokes

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Serious music need not always be taken so seriously. After all, scherzo means joke. In honor of April Fools' Day, here are our Top 5 @ 105 classical music jokes.

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Unconventional Opera

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

New York’s opera houses maintain the grand tradition with aplomb. But several other groups have created alternative ways of experiencing and interacting with this art form. Here are W...

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Lincoln Center Prix Fixe

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Finding a three-course meal served in time to make an 8pm Lincoln Center curtain can be an arduous task. Our latest Top 5 @ 105 reveals the best pre-concert prix fixe on the Upper West Side.

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Music Inspired by Sports

Monday, February 01, 2010

At the start of the Vancouver Olympic Games, our latest Top 5 @ 105 looks at music inspired by athletic events.

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Spring Season Debuts and Premieres

Friday, January 08, 2010

Out with the old and in with the new. Here's a Top 5 @ 105 list of exciting New York debuts and premieres coming up during the  spring season.

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Top 5 Last Minute Holiday Gifts for the Classical Music Fan

Monday, December 21, 2009

The holiday season is no longer around the corner, it's here. However, the perfect gift for the classical music lover may not be. Good thing there's still a time to purchase something a little more personal than an Amazon.com gift card or another recording of a Beethoven symphony.

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