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.@ACTofCT will welcome audiences back for their 2021-2022 Season next week with the record-breaking #Broadway smash-hit musical revue, #SmokeyJoesCafe - The Songs of Leiber and Stoller.

Aspiring NYC bar owner seeks to create new lesbian tavern in Astoria one pop-up at a time © Provided by New York Daily News Kristin Dausch pitches Dave’s Lesbian Bar on YouTube. Leaving their small Indiana hometown was Kristin “Dave” Dausch’s first step toward finding their identity and community. The latter entailed the Queens debut of their pop-up lesbian bar, with Dausch’s eye on opening the borough’s only lesbian-owned tavern and creating a place for the community to gather s...

Embed TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Im Terry Gross. My guest, Anthony Ramos, stars in whats expected to be one of the big summer movies, the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Mirandas Tony Award-winning first musical, "In The Heights." Ramos is in the role Miranda wrote for himself and played on Broadway. In Mirandas musical "Hamilton," Ramos was in a dual role, playing both the abolitionist John Laurens and Hamiltons son Philip. "In The Heights" is a very kinetic film, and Ramos sings, r...

Anthony Ramos vividly remembers the first time he saw Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed musical In the Heights on Broadway. It was 2010, and his college, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), had bought a block of tickets for its students. Ramos identified straightaway with the show’s protagonist. Beyond their Latin roots (Ramos is of Puerto Rican descent, while the fictional Usnavi’s family is Dominican), they were both New Yorkers and dreamers immersed in the struggle for a be...

Tim Dolan of Broadway Up Close and his crew of tour guides are back on the sidewalks, catering to a growing number of visitors.

After bombing his first audition for the role of Usnavi, Anthony Ramos is starring in 'In The Heights' on the big screen.

NBHS Drama Club finds a way to perform amid COVID-19 by filming three shorts film in place of their spring musical.

'RuPaul’s Drag Race' star Michelle Visage credits her mother with helping her launch her showbiz career as she got her a fake ID so she could go clubbing at 17 in New York City and meet other creative people.

Sections With ‘In the Heights,’ Anthony Ramos Finds Stardom on His Own Terms Teachers urged him to cultivate a more ethnically ambiguous image. He refused, and now he’s having a breakout moment. Anthony Ramos in Bushwick. Spike Lee said of the actor: “He was not handed this artistic life. He had to put the work in.”Credit...Camila Falquez for The New York Times June 3, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET The Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive,” that classic dance-floor ode to doing ...

The Boston-born actress has played Lola Rosales on 'The Young and the Restless' since 2018.