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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -Hank Steinbrenner wants the New York Yankees to flash their offense as they enter what could be a key point of their season. ''We've got to start hitting,'' he said Wednesday. ''It's getting ridiculous. They've got to start waki...

Rupert Goold will direct Michael Gambon, David Bradley, David Walliams and Nick Dunning in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, opening at the Duke of York's Theatre on 27 September 2008, with press night on 7 October 2008.

NEW YORK (AP) - Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez will skip the All-Star Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium later this month, choosing to protect his finely tuned swing. The reigning AL MVP participated in three derbies before he joined the Yankees ...

NEW YORK (AP) -The spending on NHL free agents started Tuesday morning and hadn't stopped well into the evening. And the surprising part was, marquee players such as Marian Hossa , Jaromir Jagr and Mats Sundin still hadn't decided what team wo...

Theater Oobleck's acclaimed production of Mickle Maher's fascinatingly hilarious 'The Strangerer' will play Barrow Street, marking that play's New York Premiere.

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (Isaac Robert Hurwitz, Executive director and Producer) will present a Guitar Hero benefit tournament featuring Broadway celebrities on Monday, July 14th, from 7pm to 10pm at Stitch Bar and Lounge (247 West 37th Street).

With plenty of nods to The Great Gatsby Joseph O'Neill's Netherland explores dreams and ambition in post-9/11 New york city. Maureen Corrigan calls the novel 'marvelous.'

From jazz concerts and cabaret acts to multimedia art installations, Theo Bleckmann has made a name for himself as a New York performer. Now, the vocalist and composer looks back to his native Germany.

Robert Galinsky's New York Reality TV School, which says it 'is the only organization of its kind,' offers three-hour workshops ($139) and five-week workshops ($299) designed 'to train and develop non-actors, and actors, through the spectrum of experiences a reality TV contestant/actor will face: from the audition, to the many interviews you'll go through and the actual show.' Luckily, they're not teaching classes in developing attractive web sites or writing grammatical sentences. Slate's Troy Patterson attended one of its classes, and found that the workshop was 'a three-hour lesson in cultivating narcissism--being one's self as noisily as possible' but 'was not quite as imbecilic as I'd hoped.'Among the advice given includes the commandments of reality TV, including 'Thou Shall Groom Hairy 'PITTS,'' an acronym for 'personal issues to tease' that states: 'As a reality star I will always groom my PITTS and allow them to be accessible--they are relationship, family, work related.'

NEW YORK - The menu for your party, should you choose to let the tastemakers at the Fancy Food Show have their say, might read something like this: truffled cheese over gluten-free crackers, piquant bruschetta dips with uncured duck hot dogs, salted chocolates and caramels, fair trade Jersey gelato, ginger lemonade on ice and, of course, plenty of flax.