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The York Theater Company’s recent production of “Enter Laughing: The Musical” will return to the Theater at St. Peter’s for an encore engagement Jan. 21 through March 8. The musical, about a stage-struck teenager growing up in the Bronx in the 1930s, was extended after positive reviews, but closed Oct. 26 to make way for “My Vaudeville Man,” which begins Nov. 7. … Daniel J. Travanti  will star in a revival of Eugene O’Neill “Touch of the Poet” at the 14th Street Theater from Dec. 2 through Dec. 20. Mr. Travanti, who starred in the television drama “Hill Street Blues,” will play Cornelius Melody, called Con, in O’Neill portrait of a self-deluding alcoholic who is forced to confront his inflated vision of himself. Read more..

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The last time we looked at the South Bronx it was 1979 through 1987, and now photographer Ray Mortenson focuses in on 1982 through 1984 in his new exhibit titled “Broken Glass: Photographs of the South Bronx.” Opening November 14th (and running through March 9th) at the Museum of the City of New York, Mortenson’s exhibit of 50 black & white prints will take a look at “the abandoned, burnt out, and razed structures of entire city blocks in the South Bronx in the aftermath of the 1970s, during which this neighborhood experienced dramatic decline.” (Did you know about 12,000 fires occurred annually in the neighborhood  throughout the decade?) Read more..

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