A stage costume is built to come off in seconds
Broadway dressers snap layered costumes shut seam by seam, and club performers mend and wash theirs for years. Playbill and the Guardian went backstage.
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New York made its cable company give airtime to anyone
Manhattan Cable Television launched in 1971 with public access forced on it by the city. It aired TV Party, Midnight Blue and AIDS reports others avoided.
New York rewrote factory fire safety after the Triangle fire
A locked stairwell door trapped ninth-floor workers in New York's 1911 Triangle fire, and the state answered with 38 new safety laws.
Sabalenka reaches the US Open last 16 after a rocky summer
Aryna Sabalenka is into the US Open fourth round and chasing a third straight title, after a summer in which her Grand Slam form collapsed.
A Broadway show earns back its investors, one week at a time
A Broadway show recoups its backers only once weekly earnings beat its running costs, a bar few recent musicals have cleared.
New York traded taller towers for public plazas
Since 1961, New York has let developers add floor space in return for plazas open to all, but a 2000 study found 41% of them had no real public use.
Lee Strasberg turned Stanislavski's system into the Method
Lee Strasberg, teacher of Brando and Clift, reduced Konstantin Stanislavski's acting system to one idea, emotional truth, and called it the Method.