MUSIC: There's not a whole lot going on musically tonight, but the show at Cake Shop seems pretty...sweet. By The End of Tonight and Multitudes will be taking the stage -- the former is described as "the perfect marriage between the math-rockiness of Hella with the glistening, soaring guitars of Explosions in the Sky." 7pm // Cake Shop [152 Ludlow St] // $5 FILM: The Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance and the Municipal Art Society present their......

Back before the turn of the century, and concurrent with the spread of air conditioning in Off-Off Broadway theaters, theater buffs John Clancy and Elena K. Holy seized a golden opportunity to exploit the only brief lull in New York’s raging theater scene – when conventional wisdom held that no slob stuck in town during mid-August would want to get stickier in a stuffy theater up two flights of stairs. And so The New York......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: an unusual sexual assault on Broadway in Brooklyn, an unstable building on Sutphin Blvd. in Queens, and a shooting on West 142nd St. and Amsterdam Ave. in Manhattan. Central Park's Sheep Meadow was the first park location to upgrade its wifi Internet connection to high speed. The new 15-megabits-per-second service is five times faster than the previous connection. Madame Tussauds wax museum in Times Square wasted no time in......

Save Veronica Mars Campaign Does Not Effect Local Mars Bar Availability A campaign to send the CW’s Dawn Ostroff the entire American supply of the popular British candy bar in an effort to save Veronica Mars has not effected local Mars bar availability, despite claims by organizers that they “bought out all the available Mars Bars in the U.S.A.”. Visiting Meyers of Keswick in Greenwich Village earlier this week, we were able to purchase several......

Gutenberg! The Musical! may not have been about the Police Academy star, but tonight's installment of Inside Joke is. But before The Gute heads off to The UCB Theater to discuss the art of comedy, he sat down with Gothamist to discuss what he's hiding from TMZ. You do quite a bit of work with the homeless and foster children. What attracted you to these two causes? Years ago, I got involved with helping......

The Sanitation Chronicles, a new play by and about New York’s Strongest, premiered on Wednesday. Actor/playwright Paul Brno, who’s been moonlighting for the Department of Sanitation for the past 17 years, says “every day is still a great day to be on a garbage truck.” The “slice of life” play explores the daily prejudices, anger and violence faced by “Sanmen”, all of which is exacerbated when one of the guys shows up for work dressed......

Anthony King is a very talented comedian, actor, writer, and artistic director of the UCB theater and together with Scott Brown he has written Gutengerg! The Musical! a hilarious and inventive sendoff of not just theater but of the people who make theater. How did you and Scott Brown meet and who is Scott Brown? Scott and I have differing stories about exactly when it was that we first met (his story involved me dressed......

Let's face it, this weekend was made for bonding with your couch, napping and eating leftovers. But if you really want to go against the flow, here are some things to get you out of the house... THEATER: Gutenberg! The Musical did so well at the recent New York Musical Theatre Festival that it’s moved on up to 59E59. (The show was directed by Alex Timbers, who most recently helmed Hell House.) In this two-man......

Evil Dead: The Musical officially came to life this month at New World Stages; we caught the show in previews, in a house packed with Evil Dead fans who reveled in every campy moment. The first two rows are given Gallagheresque ponchos and by evening’s end the audience in this so-called “splatter zone” is bathed in enough blood to run the Red Cross for a month. (If you’re grossed out by the amount of blood......

Today in the Fringe Festival 89 of the 200+ shows for 2006 are on view. There is most assuredly something for everyone – just have a look at the listings. And here are five more reviews (see also seven from last weekend and four from yesterday), of Suicide, the Musical, Fatboy Romeo, The Yellow Wallpaper, Their Wings Were Blue, and Armageddon Dance Party, the last of which is going straight to the top tier of......

In case you haven’t been counting down, today marks the beginning of the New York International Fringe Festival, the country’s largest theatre festival! Though ten years is typically the amount of time people say one needs to be in New York before being a “New Yorker,” the Fringe Festival has had such an impact on the downtown Broadway theatre scene that, were it a human, it probably would have attained resident status without anything near......

The trend for Broadway shows to be based on popular films continues unabated but this twist reported in Variety today is actually kinda cool. The production team of George Reinblatt, Christopher Bond and Frank Cipolla will be opening Off Broadway Evil Dead: The Musical based on the 1981 cult classic horror flick by Sam Raimi. It'll be directed by Bond and Hinton Battle, who also choreographed the show. Tying in with the Midnight Movie plot......

- Sad news - Lou Rawls died today - Did an FBI agent help the mob? - DMX is let out of jail early for good behavior! - Top 40 songs do not mean a successful musical, says the NY Sun (thousands of Broadwaylyricists and composers cheer!) - Herm Edwards is free to go to Kansas - Free yoga classes for employees at Arnold, the ad agency - will this mean three martini lunches are......

Gersh Kuntzman and Marc Dinkin, Creators of SUV: The Musical!...

Last week we went on about all the theatre festivals that have found their way to stages lately; this week it seems like there’s a citywide Hamlet-fest or some sort of Shakespeare bug in the air. There are three productions of Hamlet going, so you can choose your poison. Still in previews is what looks like it will be a thoroughly, wonderfully traditional production of the play, at Classic Stage starring Michael Cumpsty, most recently......

Far more than most presidential scandals/screw-ups, the Clinton-Lewinsky affair seems perfect for dramatization as a musical (though Les Freres Corbusier did do a good job with Warren Harding a while back, we have to admit). Especially in retrospect, the whole thing was too much of a farce even as it happened to merit the serious treatment an opera or straight play would be liable to give it now – it seems it was almost......

As Gothamist emerges from Fringe madness, there’s a bit of catching up to do. So today we bring you ideas about what shows to see next, and a review of one of them, Revolution Row, which aims to bring liberals’ bad dreams to life by showing what things might be like if religious conservatives get what they want. First, things to keep in mind/in BlackBerry for the coming weeks: The New York Musical Theatre Festival......

As the Fringe enters its second (and final) full week, Gothamist hopes you’ve been able to see at least a few shows already. Some of them have already closed by now, while a small number are just opening or had their premiere at the start of the festival but are only now having the bulk of their performances, due to venue scheduling stuff. There’s still a lot going on, so this week we’ll continue installments......

- Keith Haring's Pop Shop on Lafayette St. is set to close its doors at the end of the month. The store, famous for its wraparound mural among other things, has been open for 19 years. If you're looking for discounted Haring merchandise, now is your chance. - Poor babies. The Times has a piece on New Yorker's who settle for the Upper East Side. - 40 years ago today the Beatles filled Shea......

With war and terrorism plaguing the Bush administration, sometimes Gothamist can’t help but long for the good old days when presidential scandals and morality hinged on things like Whitewater and stained blue dresses. It’s been a while since the Clinton Administration, but the people behind Monica! The Musical are hoping that you still want to know the real story behind the most famous intern that ever was. Satirizing both the presidential scandal and musical......

Hey all you would-be Broadway composer types: Gothamist has just heard that the New York Musical Theater Festival has just started accepting submissions for this year's festival, with a submission period going from Jan. 10 until March 11. The festival itself will run Sept. 12-Oct. 2 at various venues here in lovely NYC. Gothamist caught several good productions at last summer's innaugural festival and saw real potential in what these folks are trying to do.......

We thought this was a pretty amusing piece from the Times on the biggest flops thus far in the Broadway theater season. Dracula The Musical, which closed on Sunday, inspired the article, taking a blood bath with an estimated loss of some $7.5 million after a mere five months on Broadway. But that's a neglible loss compared to Bombay Dreams, which the article descibes as losing "the better part of $14 million." And a new......

Failure hurts, so there are a lot of miserable producers right about now, given the abundant number of Broadway shows which have recently posted closing notices. Sunday was the last day for Eve Ensler's The Good Body - we liked it, but it just didn't catch on with the masses. We can see how it wasn't exactly great date night fodder, but couldn't the city's female contingency keep it going a hair longer? On January......

Gothamist had a blast at the two shows we checked out at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. First up was Top Gun The Musical, which sent up the crass commercial tactic of taking really dumb movies and turning them into musicals. Authors Denis McGrath and Scott White were inspired by a party game where a group of friends were trying to come up with the worst possible movie musical adaptation idea possible. Apocalypse Now......

Tomorrow brings a few exciting but very different activities to partake in: First, there is Broadway on Broadway, a live free outdoor concert in Times Square, hosted by Wayne Brady (soon to be seen in Chicago) and Christy Carlson Romano (Beauty and the Beast), to celebrate the musicals and plays the Great White Way has to offer. Some of the participating shows: Avenue Q, Brooklyn, The Musical (who knew?), Chicago, Golda�s Balcony (which means the......

Gothamist thought last week's reviews for the new Broadway show Dracula, The Musical were simply hilarious. A few of our favorite quotes: "This may be the first version of Dracula in which he's killed not so much by a stake to the heart as by an insipid ballad. " (Frank Scheck, New York Post) "Dracula, the Musical"... isn't simply bad ... it is bad and boring." (Ben Brantley, New York Times) "...an unconvincing melodrama laced......

Gothamist continues to mine the depths of the 2004 Fringe Festival so you don't have to! With over 200 shows in two weeks, there's an insane amount of talent showcasing quirky new works starting Friday. You can find a full schedule and ticketing info at www.fringenyc.organd remember, tickets are only 15 bucks so you can really see a bunch! Here are some more selections that really jump out to us on the schedule as potentially......

Updated: The show must go on, and Buddy Cianci, The Musical, whose performances were cancelled due to the blackout, will have two newly rescheduled performances: Tuesday, August 19th @ 7:00pm, and Thursday, August 21st @ 7:15pm 11:30pm (believe us, the Thursday show is at 11:30pm, JVG frantically emailed us, damning Fringe and his server, but Gothamist is more than happy to offer minute-to-minute Buddy scheduling issues, because we're getting first-look rights for the made-for-TV......

The Times' Providence Journal features the mythic story of Vincent "Buddy" Cianci, former Providence mayor now serving in prison for racketeering, who is the subject of a new book, as well as a new musical, Buddy Cianci, by that most-famous-of-them-all blogger, Jonathan Van Gieson, which sold out its Fringe Festival run. Cianci's charming but corrupt ways have left an indelible mark on Providence residents, including one who says, "He's a crook, but I'd vote......

Antonio Bandera will be making his Broadway debut in Nine. this spring. Nine is the musical version of Federico Fellini's 8 1/2. Friend of Gothamist D.A. Miller would have a lot to say about Banderas, made a star by Almodovar, now on Broadway and in a musical. The Observer says Antonio and Melanie are looking for a place here. Guess they are confident of the musical's strengths. In any case, the film is wonderful -......