The Ides of Links: Recently uncovered theatrical web sites
Ya cast out yer lines, and ya get what ya get. Here are a bunch o' links unearthed during the last coupla weeks of March. They range from the sublime to the execrable.
Bahgins 4 Yoots!
New York City high schoolers can find the best bargains in show biz at the
High 5 tickets site. Kids
between the ages of 13 and 18 can buy tickets to shows, concerts, operas,
dance performances, museums, and more for FIVE DOLLARS! And for performances
that take place during the week, that's $5 for TWO TICKETS!!! In
addition to specific performances of shows on and off-Broadway, a number
of organizations have contributed tickets, including: The 92nd Street Y,
American Symphony Orchestra, Asia Society, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie
Hall, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Film
Society of Lincoln Center, Great Performers at Lincoln Center, International
Center of Photography, Japan Society, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Joyce
Theater, The Kitchen, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City Ballet, New
York City Opera, New York Philharmonic, The Public Theater, The Regina Opera
Company, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. (These organizations appear
on High 5's link page.)
To get the tickets, students need to bring proof of age or a high school
ID or transportation pass.
What's Playing in the City?
A simple, straightforward listing of shows and show times is
Theatre New York. Their listings are
broken into Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, and For
Kids (with one of the scariest background color choices I've ever seen),
with each of the first three categories broken down further into Drama,
Comedy, and Musicals. The listings are not always quite current (shows that
have already opened were listed as Coming Soon the last time I visited),
but they do have contact/ticket information for each show listed. The site
contains exactly two links: to the Tony
Awards® and Playbill
On-Line sites -- which is odd, since if you're really looking for theatre
listings you should have gone to the Playbill pages in the first place. Webmaster
is Joyce Sarnar.
What's Playing in Deutschland?
Where do you go to find out what's playing at the National Theatres
of Mannheim? Where else, but to the Nationtheater
Mannheim page. This is a beautiful, well-designed and constructed site,
filled with lovely images, and with detailed information about what's currently
playing and what's coming up at the three theatres. The site is entirely
auf Deutsch.
All the writers
What did Harry Akst write? (Music for "Dinah," "Baby
Face," "Am I Blue," among others.) Whom did Hy Zaret ("Unchained
Melody") most frequently collaborate with? (Alec Kramer and Joan Whitney.
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