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LINCOLN CENTER — American Ballet Theatre announced on Monday, Dec. 9, that Gillian Murphy, an internationally celebrated principal dancer since 2002, will take her final bow in July 2025 at the Metropolitan Opera House.  Murphy will take her final bow in the iconic role of Odette/Odile in “Swan Lake” on Friday, July 18, at the…

Gillian Murphy as Odette in Swan Lake. Photo by Rosalie O’Connor LINCOLN CENTER — American Ballet Theatre (ABT) announced on Monday, Dec. 9, that Gillian Murphy, an internationally celebrated principal dancer since 2002, will take her final bow in July 2025 at the Metropolitan Opera House. Murphy performed at BAM in ABT’s production of “The…

Jay-Z appears during a news conference announcing the launch of Dream Chasers record label in joint venture with Roc Nation in New York on July 23, 2019. Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File Jay-Z’s popular exhibit “The Book of HOV” in New York is about to live up to its name by becoming an actual book.…

FLATBUSH  — Marla Hirokawa’s dream has finally become reality. “Charles’ Carol” — the vision of artistic director and founder of Covenant Ballet Theatre (CBT) Hirokawa — premiered the evening of Saturday, Nov. 16, at Brooklyn College’s Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts. “Charles,” a unique spin on the  Charles Dickens’ 1843 novella,…

An artist recreated a “Subway Therapy” wall in the passageway in the 14th Street passageway between Sixth and Seventh avenues, Nov. 6, 2024. Credit: Jose Martinez/THE CITY For the second time in eight years, a busy Manhattan subway corridor became a safe space for New Yorkers hoping to unburden themselves of Election Day angst. Subway…

Part of the 2024 New York Comedy Festival, “Go Dummy Goes Dummy” promises a wild, electric night of fast-paced, entirely improvised comedy. Known as New York’s “Dumbest Improv Group,” the show features some of the funniest up-and-coming performers in the city.  The lineup features Omar Evans (Blue Bloods), Tucker Iverson (Asylum Mainstage Presents…), Jess Moukios…

BUSHWICK — Park Slope native and playwright John N. Frank is bringing a taste of his Italian-American upbringing to North Brooklyn with “It’s My Brooklyn, Too!”  “This is my family’s story, but it’s also the story of every immigrant family that’s come to America,” says Frank. “It deals with their struggles to achieve the American…

BUSHWICK — Park Slope native and playwright John N. Frank is bringing a taste of his Italian-American upbringing to North Brooklyn with “It’s My Brooklyn, Too!”  “This is my family’s story, but it’s also the story of every immigrant family that’s come to America,” says Frank. “It deals with their struggles to achieve the American…

Kids decorate pumpkins at a crafts table hosted by Private Picassos. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Late October is the time when leaves change color across the city, and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy celebrates the occasion with its annual “Sound & Color! Autumn in New York” fall festival.  Kids made bat…

Adrian Blake Enscoe is an actor and musician starring in “Swept Away,” a Broadway musical about a group of four whalers stranded at sea. Enscoe is also working on developing a Broadway production of “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” with Peter Hedges, a writer and filmmaker known for “Dan in Real Life,” “About a Boy” and…