Time Travel Tuesdays: Lin-Manuel Miranda – In the Heights | NY Times
By MELENA RYZIK Published: March 14, 2008 TO be perfectly clear, Lin-Manuel Miranda did not grow up in Washington Heights, the physical and spiritual setting of his musical “In the Heights,” which opened on Broadway this week. He was raised in Inwood, an area some blocks north with a similar landscape of immigrants, Spanish speakers [...]
United Palace wants to show movies again | NY Daily News
By Stephanie Lacy / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS IT’S TIME for the United Palace to be a movie palace once again. The cultural arts center — part of a complex that once housed Rev. Ike’s evangelical ministry — is about to launch a campaign to raise $40,000 in 40 days to buy projectors and other [...]
Uptown Artists Mobilize to Return Film to United Palace | DNAinfo
By Nigel Chiwaya @seenigel WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Theater critic George Robinson couldn’t help but marvel as he looked around the inside of the United Palace on a recent visit. Despite living in Washington Heights for more than 30 years, Robinson made his first trip to the West 175th Street building Monday. “This is absolutely a [...]
In The Heights @ The United Palace – The Recap
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Photography by Paul Lomax (@PaulLomaxPhoto) There is truly no place like home. On Monday, February 11th the Tony Award-winning musical, In The Heights, came home for a one-night only performance on the 5-year anniversary of its Broadway debut. In The Heights put our neighborhood on the map all those years ago [...]
The significance of “In the Heights” at the United Palace
By Mike Fitelson (@MikeFitelson) After months of planning, yesterday the George Washington Bridge finally arrived on stage at the United Palace, the scenic backdrop for tonight’s one-night only performance of “In the Heights: The Concert.” Five years ago this week the musical, which went on to win two Tony Awards, opened its first preview at [...]
Hitting the Heights: Tony-winning Broadway musical returns to neighborhood for one-night performance | NY Daily News
Heights native Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote and starred in the musical, brings it Monday to the United Palace theater in Washington Heights By Michael J. Feeney / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS THE award-winning Broadway musical “In the Heights” is coming home to the neighborhood that provided its inspiration in a one-night-only concert in the heart [...]
World Premiere: Trouble In The Heights at the United Palace On January 24th
gogoPatience c+p and Numeric Pictures have officially announced the date and location for the premiere of the much-talked-about independent feature film Trouble In The Heights! On Thursday, January 24th the United Palace (4140 Broadway at W. 175th street) will premiere Trouble In The Heights at 7:30pm (Doors open at 7). The dramatic thriller – driven [...]
In the Heights: In Concert in Washington Heights | Playbill
By Adam Hetrick Tony Award winners Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo and Tony nominees Olga Merediz and Robin de Jesús will reunite for a one-night-only concert of the Washington Heights-set musical In the Heights, which will be staged at the United Palace of Cultural Arts in February 2013. Viva Broadway, an initiative of the Broadway [...]
Harmony in the Heights: United Palace Hosts Youth Music Program | The Uptowner
By Marielle Mondon and Trishula Patel Behind the ornate doors and antique marquee of the 82-year-old United Palace on 175th Street, students trickle in each weekday afternoon, exchanging their book bags for violas, cellos and violins. The Harmony Program began 10 years ago to provide music lessons to children in public housing across New York’s [...]
From poverty to the Palace: United Palace Cathedral program trains uptown kids to be classical musicians | NY Daily News
By Douglas Feiden / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The dramatic transformation of the United Palace Cathedral in Washington Heights into a destination arts-and-cultural center takes a huge leap forward Tuesday with the launch of a program to turn uptown kids into classical musicians. Fourth- and fifth-graders from underprivileged backgrounds who have never played a musical [...]
The United Palace Presents A Free Screening of To Be Heard This Friday
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Uptown Science: Icarus at the Edge of Time @ the United Palace
BY Art By Dj Boy (@ArtByDjBoy) On Wednesday May 30th, the World Science Festival kicked off in our very own United Palace on 175th and Broadway. The show, “Icarus at the Edge of Time” was a mixture of Visual Graphics by AL + AL, St Luke’s Orchestra playing a unique composition by Philip Glass and conducted [...]
The 2012 World Science Festival Kicks Off @ the United Palace Theater
BY Michelle Michalos On May 30, the 2012 World Science Festival returns to New York City for its fifth anniversary with over 50 programs that meld the scientific with the artistic. Co-founded in 2008 by author and physicist Brian Greene and television journalist Tracy Day, the festival seeks to attract leading scientific minds, renowned artists [...]
United Palace Cathedral may see new life as community arts center | NY Daily News
By Bruce Diamond / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS In recent weeks, workers at the United Palace Cathedral in Washington Heights have dismantled nearly 500 feet of wrought-iron gate surrounding the building’s square-block perimeter. Over the upcoming month, the hulking, 3,300-seat auditorium at W. 175th St. and Broadway will serve as the site for the opening [...]
Dispatches From (A)mended America @ The United Palace March 8-10
March 8-10, 2012 at The United Palace Theatre 4140 Broadway at 175th Street EPIC THEATRE ENSEMBLE Presents DISPATCHES FROM (A)MENDED AMERICA by Brandt Adams and Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr. The Conversation Starter: We’ve elected a black man as President, so what do we do now? Is the “race question” answered?
Behind the Scenes of the People's Theatre Project Man in Boat
Photography by Art By Dj Boy (@DjboyNYC)
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS BABY!
BY Led Black The New York Times reports that local restaurant and Washington Heights institution, Coogan’s (169th and Broadway), has been the latest victim of the passing of counterfeit money to the tune of 7 fake $100 bills. Apparently, this past March Southern Rock legends, the Allman Brothers, played an 8-day gig at the United [...]
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