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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

’60s Poster Boy David Edward Byrd

…of my Broadway work — “Follies” and “Godspell,” and “Little Shop of Horrors” are my favorites. That was a very fertile time in the theater. I did a lot of…

Friday, October 4, 2013

Explore NYC: Open House New York Weekend

…spot, once home to the Strand Theater, now houses a new 40,000-square-foot multipurpose performing arts center as well as an exhibition space for creative glassworks. The architect responsible for the…

Monday, January 20, 2014

Aging with Attitude: Style Maven Lynn Dell

…shows, appeared in Italian Vogue and in Ari Seth Cohen’s popular book “Advanced Style.” She says that she dresses for the “theater of life.” Today, Dell greets us in one…

Friday, June 14, 2019

King Lear comes to Senior Planet

…will be live streamed, see below for details) is the brainchild of Brooklyn-based Theater of War Productions (learn more here), which specializes in adapting classical works to address current public…

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

What Lois Weaver Knows About Getting Old

…the show is over.” —Lois Weaver Perhaps best known for co-founding the renowned lesbian theater troupe Split Britches with Peggy Shaw and Deb Margolin, Weaver worked with groups of seniors…

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Inspiring Stories: Alice Shields’ Electronic Opera

Alice Shields is considered a pioneer of electronic music. Her celebrated operas and other musical works bring together Western and non-Western forms of classical music and theater, such as the…

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Aging Out of Place in Boquete, Panama

…A couple of foundations help the handicapped. There are two or three different animal rescue clinics and a community theater. There are plenty of other activities, too—quilting, birding, hiking, traveling….

Friday, December 19, 2014

You Don’t Know What You’re Missing: Kid Movies for Grownups

…Released in November, 2014, Mockingjay is in theaters now. Find your local theater. “X-Men Days of Future Past” I’m generally not a great fan of superhero movies, because they tap…

Thursday, June 9, 2016

The Phoenix Project: Finding Our Beauty in Older Age

…American Dance Theater to Broadway, Hodes is part of an ensemble that’s performing in “The Phoenix Project” this month in New York, a program of choreographic works that aims to…

Thursday, December 14, 2023

You Should Be Dancing!

…areas that are enhanced by practicing dance! Tapping to Joy After seeing two different tap companies perform at New York City’s Joyce Theater, SuZen, a 77 year old fine art…

Thursday, May 26, 2022

Hang with National Park Service Ranger, Betty Reid Soskin, 100

…about her career; the retired ranger also joyfully described picketing Paramount Theater, growing up in a predominantly Creole community, and even dating Jackie Robinson. She even recounted a time her…

Friday, January 23, 2015

How I Created an Instant Social Life Using Meetup

…movie “Selma” and dinner. If it weren’t for my trusty GPS I never would have found the place – it looked like a Moorish palace, not a movie theater, but…

Thursday, December 14, 2023

¡Debería estar bailando!

…Sacarle partido a la alegría Después de ver actuar a dos compañías de claqué diferentes en el Joyce Theater de la ciudad de Nueva York, SuZen, una fotógrafa artística y…

Monday, May 23, 2022

Get Social – and Get Involved!

…still sees over a decade later for non-political fun. “We go to movies, the theater and meet for small dinner parties and birthday celebrations,” she says. “With the pandemic substantially…

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Senior Planet Talks to… Tony Orlando

…I left that theater, lo and behold, it was a raining. And on 23rd Street in New York City, I started kicking the puddles and singing Singing in the Rain….