Performing Arts

Born on May 25, 1929 as Belle Miriam Silverman, Beverly Sills began singing in public at the age of four, when she appeared on the Uncle Bob's Rain

Pearl Lang is well-known both for her work as one of Martha Graham's principal soloists and for her own choreography.

The New York Times reported that although the Metropolitan Opera's staging of The Siege of Corinth was impressive, "everything ...

Bette Davis, Gloria Swanson, and Anne Baxter were all in the running.

The actress Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St.

"The evening's find is Barbra Streisand, a girl with an oafish expression, a loud irascible voice and an arpeggiated laugh.

Sophie Tucker, the self-proclaimed "Last of the Red Hot Mamas," was born on January 13, 1884.

The ten people inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame in its first induction ceremony on March 8, 1971, included some of the most well-known names in American music: Duke Ellington, Ira Gersh

The February 10, 2001, performance of V's The Vagina Monologues was cheered by 18,000 men and women at New York City's Madison Square Garden.

Born Theodosia Goodman on July 22, 1890, Theda Bara had a brief but notable career as the star of dozens of silent films.

Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1923, Melissa Hayden became one of the biggest stars of American ballet.

Critics hailed Rosina and Josef Lhévinne's two-piano recital, held at Carnegie Hall on January 14, 1939, for its "remarkable precision, subtle tinting, and the most carefully perfected detai

Joan Rivers's first Broadway play, Fun City, opened on January 2, 1972.

On January 7, 1996, Debbie Friedman gave a sold out concert at Carnegie Hall, commemorating twenty-five years as one of the Jewish community's most well-known and influential contemporary musicians