West End News

Published Thursday 3 December 2009 08:53pm EST. While it may lack the flashing lights and giant billboards, theater venues in the boroughs offer great shows.

For over a decade, Brooklyn deejay and producer DJ Spinna has given Hip Hop fans historical context through his albums, compilations and mixtapes.

Kerry Ellis is to replace Jodie Prenger as Nancy in the West End production of Oliver! , currently playing at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

The health department has indicated there are lessons learned from Friday's long lines and people's frustration.

David Shannon takes over the title role in the original London production of The Phantom of the Opera on Nov.

ONEONTA _ The two candidates for Oneonta town supervisor clashed in a debate Monday night that featured sparring about the handling of town finances and alleged workplace harassment.

Kaitlin Mary Dahl and Nicholas Donald Spano were married July 25 at Celebrations in Ithaca.

ON Monday, Sergio Trujillo was doing some fancy footwork, even for a choreographer known for spiffy moves.

An 89-year-old man died from his injuries after his car crashed into a mobile home in Otego on Wednesday afternoon, the Otsego County coroner said Thursday afternoon.

Rob Halliday made one of his annual visits to Broadway this fall as the UK associate lighting designer and programmer for Jude Law's Hamlet at the Broadhurst Theatre , with lighting by Neil Austin, sets and costumes-modern black clothes for the most part- by Christopher Oram, and sound by Adam Cork.

Hey Kids, Santa Claus has designated The Daily Star as an official mailbox for your letters to him this Christmas season.

Jamie deRoy & Friends, the MAC Award-winning variety show, returns to the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan Oct.

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The new West End production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame officially opens Oct. 15 at the Duchess Theatre, for a run through Dec.

More than 230 people attended the ninth annual Venison Donation Banquet Saturday night at the Holiday Inn in Oneonta.

Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones and five-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury will head the cast of the upcoming Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music .

A funny thing has happened to "Othello" of late: A play traditionally usurped by the villainous Iago is now giving its title character pride of place, as the British comedian Lenny Henry's bravura occupancy of the role, at the Trafalgar Studios in the West End, is the latest to prove.

Bonnie Greer's Marilyn & Ella , a musical play about pop culture icons Marilyn Monroe and Ella Fitzgerald, which originally premiered at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East in 2008, is to make its West End debut in three Sunday performances at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, Nov.

Olivier Award-winning director Rupert Goold. Lucy Prebble's Enron , which will officially open a sold-out six-week engagement at the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Downstairs Sept.

I would guess I'm not alone in hoping that the can-do spirit of Oneonta that brought us a Soccer Hall of Fame nearly 30 years ago can be repeated in re-opening and keeping the Hall in Oneonta.