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Reports that the revival of "Wonderful Town" at the New York City-based Al Hirschfeld Theater is to close after the January 30, 2005 performance.

The article focuses on the performance of actor and writer Bob Martin in his role as a Man in Chair in the theatrical production "The Drowsy Chaperone" at the Marquis Theater in New York City.

LIZA MINNELLI is poised for a comeback. Again. As she prepares a return to Broadway for the first time in almost a decade, in a new show called ''Liza's at the Palace ...,'' opening Wednesday, Ms. Minnelli is looking -- hallelujah! -- healthy and happy at 62, and sounding strong and grounded. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While Lincoln Center presents a splendid revival of ''South Pacific,'' inviting audiences to consider the prejudices of white Americans against ''people whose skin is a different shade'' (as one of its songs puts it), Gateway Playhouse in Bellport is mounting an earlier landmark musical by the same librettist-book writer exploring the same theme. ''Show Boat,'' with book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, was groundbreaking in several ways. It integrated songs and plot into what many critics deem the first serious American musical and had black and white performers sharing the stage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the need for a midsize theater in New York City to showcase dance performances. Avoidance of the city by troupes such as the Royal Danish Ballet, the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago and others; Linda Shelton, director of Joyce Theater who hopes to meet the need by getting a dance theater in the planned arts complex at the World Trade Center site; What Shelton is hoping for; Dance theaters in the city that are too high priced for troupes; Lack of availability of existing theaters; Efforts by Shelton to get a special place for dance.

Discusses Exploring the Metropolis Inc., a not-for-profit organization which offers free listings of rehearsal and performance spaces around New York City at its Web site, www.nycdanceplaces.org. Comments from director Eugene C. Cowan, who also has a Web site with similar listings for musicians at www.nycmusicplaces.org; Concept and logistics of the site and searches.

Focuses on the Next Wave Down Under festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, in October 2001. How the festival illustrates that Australia has become a major force in the performing arts; View that the 21st century is a time for the southern hemisphere to have a voice; Place of Australia in the global community, and how it is taking on a new role of leadership.

Review the music performance of the Pizzarelli Trio at Feinstein's at the Regency in New York City, through May 5, 2001.

Reports on some of the compositions that will be performed by Colin Davis and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York City starting March 8, 2001.

Highlights the performance of rhythm and blues singer Nell Carter at Feinstein's at the Regency in New York City in February 2001.

Highlights the music performance of the Vox Vocal Ensemble at the St. Paul's Chapel in Columbia University, New York City.

Highlights the performance of tenor Michael Schade and pianist Graham Johnson at New York City's Alice Tully Hall on February 25, 2001.

Highlights the performance of the Choir of Corpus Christi in a program called `Alma Redemptoris Mater,' at the Corpus Christi Church in New York City.

Highlights the performance of the Brooklyn Philharmonic, conducted by Robert Spano, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City on February 24, 2001.

Highlights the music performance of Jessye Norman accompanied by pianist James Levine in New York City's Carnegie Hall on February 24, 2001.

Features the performances of cabaret singers Andrea Marcovicci and Lillias White in New York City. Overview of Marcovicci's show `Kurt Weill in America'; Analysis of white's performance.

Focuses on the performance of pianist Hakon Austbo for `Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus,' at the Messiaen festival in New York City. Other pieces rendered by Austbo; Subject of the performance; Problems encountered by Austbo during his performance.

Evaluates the performance of pop singer K.D. Lang at the Beacon Theater in New York City on December 2, 2000. Highlights of the event; Review of her musical recording `Invincible Summer.'

Evaluates the performance of Valery Gergiev, principal guest conductor of the Met Orchestra, at the Carnegie Hall in New York City on December 3, 2000. Highlights of the event; Musical pieces played at the concert.

Focuses on the music-drama `Entfuhrung im Konzertsaal,' written by Mauricio Kagel, performed by the Schoenberg Ensemble and Netherlands Chamber Choir, and conducted by Reinberg de Leeuw at the Carnegie Hall in New York City. Implication of the show on the terror of kidnapping; Details on the performance of de Leeuw.

Evaluates the performance of musical director Simon Rattle and the Orchestra of Saint Luke's during a concert held at the Carnegie Hall in New York City on September 28, 2000. Musical pieces played; Jazz soloists who performed; Highlights of the event.

Evaluates the performance of the Queen's Chamber Band at the Merkin Concert Hall in New York City in September 2000. Works of composer John Dowland that were performed by the group; Quality of their performance.

Cites the performance of opera singer, Luciano Pavarotti at Madison Square Garden in New York City with the Opera Orchestra of New York. Audience attracted by the concert; Songs rendered by Pavarotti.

Criticizes the performance of Scott Stapp of the band Creed at the Madison Square Garden in New York City. Description of the lyrics of his music; Some of the songs he performed; Awards received by the band.

Focuses on the music performance of Mark Oliver Everett or E at the Bowery Ballroom on August 11, 2000 with Lisa Germano in New York City. Highlights of the event.

Evaluates the performance of Thomas Quasthoff, a German bass baritone, at the Alice Tully Hall in New York City as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival on August 10, 2000. Mozart songs that were presented; Comments regarding the performance.

Provides information on the performance of Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic in `Mahler Ninth Symphony' at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, New York.

Provides information on the performance of Ornette Coleman, a jazz musician, at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival on June 1, 2000 at the Battery Park in New York City, New York.

Evaluates the music performance of Jin Hi Kim at the Kitchen in New York City, New York in May 2000. Information on her music recording `Dong Dong Touching the Moons'; Quality of her performance.

Focuses on the performance of Jonathan Sheffer and his Eos Orchestra for the sequel `Six 10-Minute Operas II' at the Society for Ethical Culture in New York City, New York. Format of the sequel; Theme of the sequel.

Presents information on the performance of saxophonist Roy Nathanson and singers Elvis Costello and Deborah Harry at Saint Ann's in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Details on the songs played.

Features Dave's True Story, a New York lounge act of singer Kelly Flint and guitarist/composer David Cantor. Repertoire of songs; Influence of singer Steely Dan on Cantor; Relationship of Dave's True Story with its recording company, Chesky Records.

Presents information on the performance of pianist, Maurizio Pollini at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, New York. Artists invited to the concert; Details on the performance of the Arnold Schoenberg Choir; Works presented by the choir.

Presents information on the performance of Vox Ensemble for the works of Flemish composer Jacobus Clemens and Sebastian de Vivanco at Saint Paul's Chapel of Columbia University in New York City, New York conducted by George Steel. Musical influences of the performance.

Deals with the reconstruction of Johann Sebastian Bach's lost work `St. Mark Passion,' performed by Ton Koopman and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra on April 9, 2000 in New York. Questions about the limitations and reasons for reconstructing Bach's works; Bach's collaborator; Setting and framework of his work `St. Mark Passion; Ways on how reconstructors dealt with the loss of the Gospel portions; Appeal of Bach's music.

Deals with debates surrounding Johann Sebastian Bach's `St. John Passion' to be performed by Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, New York. Components of Bach's `St. John Passion' libretto; Negative references to the Jews; Reference to Martin Luther's book `On the Jews and Their Lies.'

Presents information on the performance of the Second Avenue Dance Company at the School of Arts in New York University's Fifth Floor Theater in New York City, New York. Music performer of the dance `Steps in the Street'; Steps used in the dance `Echoes of Acolytes.'

Evaluates the performance of pianist Martha Argerich with members of the Juilliard String Quartet at Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York on March 25, 2000. Several songs played by Argerich; Description of Argerich's recital; Highlights of the show.

Reports on the events that happened in the streets of Times Square in New York City, New York on March 21, 2000, in connection to the performance of the boy band 'N Sync. Comments on singer Justin Timberlake; Reactions of young female fans to the performance.

Presents information on the performance of Dickey Betts and the Allman Brothers Band at the Beacon Theater in New York City, New York on March 9, 2000. Emotions presented in the music; Details on the success and failures of Allman Brothers; Members of the band.

Presents information on the performance of American bass-baritone Simon Estes at the 92nd Street Y with the pianist Julius Tilghman in New York City, New York. Songs of Schubert presented in the performance; Response of the audience to the performance.

Focuses on the Emerson String Quartet, which will take part in 'The Noise of Time,' a production by the Theatre de Complicite in New York City, New York, conceived and directed by Simon McBurney. Details on the production, which will feature the quartet playing Shostakovich's 15th String Quartet; How the dramatic and musical aspects fit together; Description of parts of a rehearsal.

Discusses the dance performance of Creach/Company, Doug Elkins Dance Co. and Paradigm at the program `Triple Play Dance' in New York City, New York. Interpretation of Paradigm for `Gray Study' dance; Other dances performed by the group.

Evaluates the dance performance of Julio Bocca and the Ballet Argentino at the World Financial Center Winter Garden in New York City, New York on February 3, 2000. How the program opened; Comment on the `Adagietto' dance of Osar Araiz.

Provides information on the performance of David Murray's music group Creole at the Knitting Factory's Old Office in New York, New York.

Reports on the performance of violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter at Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York on January 6, 2000. Details on the recitals and three orchestra concerts performed by Mutter with the New York Philharmonic.

Focuses on Cecilia Bartoli's performance of the role of Susanna in the Metropolitan Opera's fall 1998 New York City production of Mozart's `Nozze di Figaro.' Her insistence that her contract included provisions for performing alternative arias composed by Mozart in place of the familiar arias from the original 1786 Vienna production; Director Jonathan Miller's distress; Artistic director James Levine's view that they are inferior.

Reports on the performance of the American Symphony Orchestra in presenting the classical music composition of Anton Bruckner at Avery Fisher Hall in New York in 1999. Details on Bruckner's music; Climax of the performance.

Looks at the performance of Andrea Marcovicci in `Marcovicci Sings Our Songs: 1965-1985,' at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel in New York, New York. Marcovicci's version of Beatles' songs.

Presents information on the performance of Alison Krauss and her band, Union Station at the Town Hall in New York City, New York. Songs played by Krauss; Songs included in the album of Krauss; Details on the members of the band.