On Wednesday nights, the Apollo Theater in Harlem is one of the hottest tickets in town. But there's no celebrity headliner. It's Amateur Night! And the audience is there to pick the NEXT breakout ...
It was the depths of the Great Depression. Racial segregation prevailed in much of America. But in Harlem the opening of the Apollo Theater on Jan. 26, 1934, produced a frisson of hope. As Hurtig and ...
In February, the Apollo will open new stages at the revamped Victoria Theater, the first expansion since its 1934 opening. As the legendary Harlem venue takes on a new life — we look back at the night ...
The Apollo Theater is celebrating 90 years of soul-lifting showtimes with legendary acts such as Louis Armstrong (bottom left) and Leslie Uggams (top right). When a 9-year-old Leslie Uggams made her ...
Like today, it was also a Friday, 90 years ago exactly, Jan. 26, 1934, when a shuttered burlesque house on 125th St. reopened as the Apollo Theater. Unlike Hurtig and Seamon’s New Burlesque Theater, ...
NEW YORKNEW YORK — The Apollo Theater, a bastion of Black music and culture and one of New York City’s most storied venues, celebrates its 90th anniversary this year. On Tuesday, the historic theater ...
When a 9-year-old Leslie Uggams made her debut at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater in 1952, she instantly won over the notoriously tough crowd as the “extra added attraction” on a bill with jazz great ...
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