New York

Touching, powerful, and above all, honest, “No Wake” shows the potential for something new on the horizon if one can come to terms with the past and is ready to begin again.

NEW YORK—The act of starring at the Metropolitan Opera on the opening night of the season is one of the music world’s unofficial honors. The singer doesn’t get a statuette, but in Sondra Radvanovsky’s case, her expressive face is found on posters all around town and on the cover of the playbill for the entire […]

A shooting in Manhattan has left at least one person—a construction worker—dead. The incident took place on West 59th Street and 11th Avenue. Witnesses said that shooting took place on the 39th floor of a building, according to MailOnline. Police sources told the New York Post that the gunman killed himself afterward. The victim was […]

NEW YORK—If you were asked to imagine a sculpture, you would likely conjure an image of a robust man sitting on a rock, hunched over with his right elbow digging into his left knee, his chin resting on his right hand, his eyes downcast—that iconic work by Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), “The Thinker.” This year marks the […]

NEW YORK—The age-old battle of art versus commerce takes center stage in Frederick Stroppel’s two-character work, “Small World: A Fantasia,’ presented by Penguin Rep Theatre at 59E59 Theaters. Although the play offers no clear winner, it does bring up some interesting points. In 1939 California, studio head Walt Disney (Mark Shanahan), basking in the success […]

Mysterious metal towers have been popping up in New York City, and no one seems to know what they’re for, CBS New York reports. They’ve been put up near the city’s tunnels and bridges, and soon 18 of them will be completed. The towers are expected to cost $100 million. The president of the Metro […]

NEW YORK—Family relationships can be a tricky dance of unconditional love, painful understandings, and harsh realities. Simon Stephens’s quietly involving “On the Shore of the Wide World,” now at the Atlantic Theater Company, makes this case. Originally presented in Manchester, England, in 2005, the work may not cover any new ground or make any sweeping […]

Chefs for Human Rights is partnering with the Panzi Foundation for a dinner, with proceeds to benefit the foundation and Panzi Hospital, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The hospital is known for its support of survivors of sexual violence.

NEW YORK—Heaven may be just a concept for some or a remote reality for others, but that insurmountable separation between heaven and earth may be bridged, on occasion, through the arts. Inspired by myths, legends, and China’s 5,000 years of civilization, Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra presents a vivid storytelling experience, exuding a cinematic quality that transports […]

North Korea’s diplomatic mission to the United Nations owes the New York City $156,000 in parking tickets, NBC New York reported. Most of the debt dates back 15 years or more and it’s not clear if the city will ever manage to collect it. A North Korean diplomat identified as Jong Jo, secretary of North […]

A Brooklyn family woke up to a nightmare when a father’s attempt to alleviate his son’s cough went horribly wrong. The 1-year-old, Mordechai Halpern, woke up around 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 14 with a bad cough. The father gave the baby a bottle of water with lemon juice and sugar, but Mordechai continued to cough. […]

NEW YORK—They had just arrived in the United States a little more than a week before, but they were ready to tell the world about what they had endured. Ahead of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City, two sisters from China joined a group of about 80 meditating protesters outside U.N. headquarters. Rui and Xing […]

As soprano Elisa Brown listened to the ancient two-stringed erhu during a performance of Shen Yun Performing Arts several years ago, she was so moved that her entire body was trembling, “but in a very loving way,” she said. “It was so beautiful, it was healing.” There’s an old Chinese belief that music has the power to […]

NEW YORK—With “For Peter Pan on Her 70th birthday,” playwright Sarah Ruhl has fashioned a paean to her mother, who once played Peter Pan many years ago in a community theater in Davenport, Iowa. Fashioned out of love, remembrance, and Ruhl’s imagination, the play unfolds to tell us a story about family and mortality. In […]

A man has filed a $2.5 million negligence lawsuit against a New York hospital after he said his HIV diagnosis was faxed to his workplace, allegedly revealing his condition to his co-workers. The man is known as “John Doe” in court documents and wishes to remain unnamed because he was so traumatized by the disclosure, according […]

Three people were killed and at least 16 injured when a New York City transit bus and a tour bus collided early on Monday in the city’s borough of Queens, spinning around before slamming into a building, fire officials said. Firefighters pulled passengers from the wreckage after the city bus collided with a Dahlia tour […]

Hundreds of activists held a rally in New York City on Saturday afternoon to protest Taiwan’s exclusion from the United Nations and other international organizations. Taiwanese Americans, Chinese dissidents, and international supporters of Taiwan joined force with activists and politicians from Taiwan to push for Taiwan’s international participation as U.N. General Assembly started its new […]

Miracles do happen. A Chicago woman is thanking God for escaping unharmed after an armed assailant tried to rob and shoot her Sept. 9. Marnita Carter, 54, was waiting at a bus stop early in the morning when a young man, later identified as 23-year-old Dennis Evans, came up and stuck a gun in her face. Carter grabbed the gun from […]

Jazz that was recorded at the Village Vanguard has now released, by Daniels and Kellaway and by Cécile McLorin Salvant.

Police are investigating the death of a Louisiana State University (LSU) freshman as a possible hazing incident after the 18-year-old was taken to the hospital Thursday morning, Sept. 14, and later pronounced dead. Few details about the death of Maxwell Gruver from Roswell, Georgia, were available Friday morning, but school officials confirmed that the incident is being investigated […]