When Corrie Besse of Redmoon Theater went to the police station to report the theft of her iPhone on the subway, she did more than warm a bench and consume paper: she helped the police find the suspect in the June murder of Sally Katoma King, a community activist shoved down a set of stairs on the R

This Sunday's New York Times Arts section has a note that the new show from the creators of Urinetown, called Yeast Nation (the triumph of life), will open at the New York Fringe Festival.

Editors’ note: Is Jonathan checking in from vacation in the Southwest, or is Kelly putting words in his mouth as he did to her while she was out of the country? Your guess is as good as ours.  

This happened the second week in July but I haven't seen it reported elsewhere: the sole Illinois grant from the NEA's "Our Town" program, which aspires to get money for the arts by claiming it's good for urban development and therefore should be paid for by HUD or HHS or the Department of Commerce

The responses to news of the closing of Infamous Commonwealth Theatre pointed out the indisputable fact that there are always new theater companies coming along.

Updated at: 9:13 am 7/26/11"Infamous Commonwealth Closes Its Doors" said the email dated 9 o'clock this morning.

JONATHAN: They used to call it Hell's Kitchen, but now the substantially-gentrified West Side of midtown Manhattan is called Clinton, and the Puerto Rican vs. Polack gangs of West Side Story are history.