It’s been a while since I’ve done a post. Actually, it’s been a while since I’ve done any significant new wandering around NYC; but today I did. It’s cool, dreary, and overcast with occasional rainshowers. My kind of day. I got up and couldn’t figure out what I felt like doing and realized it’s been [...]
Archive for the ‘Broadway’ category
A Saturday in NYC
September 12, 2009Mary Poppins at the New Amsterdam Theatre
May 11, 2008I don’t like the title. I think we ought to use “theater” and not “theatre”. I recently managed to get a super-cheap ticket to see Mary Poppins at the New Amsterdam Theatre and went. (The picture above is during the day, but I did see the play at night.) The play was fine and [...]
Canyon of Heroes
May 9, 2008The start of Broadway is downtown in the Financial District. And just after Broadway starts, you run into the fabled Canyon of Heroes. This is where the ticker tape parades are held. Well, there’s no more ticker tape but I think they do a simulated version of it when they have those rare parades. The [...]
Theater Row in Hell’s Kitchen…and a bit ‘o the Bard
March 17, 2008A co-worker alerted me to a new production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. So, I thought I ought to go. And when I heard who was doing it, I really knew I must, absolutely must, go. It was TBTB, the acronym for Theater Breaking Through Barriers. It used to be called the Theater for the Blind. I’ve never [...]
Ankling West 72nd Street
October 26, 2007For me, West 72nd Street is Manhattan. It’s absurd, but whenever I try to picture Manhattan into a single sort of place, this is the street for me. I used to live in the area, and I would walk down parts of 72nd Street twice a day (to/from the subway). And, although it’s only been [...]
