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Reports that fewer New York City schools are in danger of being shut down due to poor performance, according to state and city education officials. Number of city schools under registration review; Efforts made by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to improve the performance of public schools; Bloomberg's reaction to the decline in the number of schools under registration review.

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.

Offers a discussion about the New York Yankees baseball team's hiring of a mental-skills coach, Chad Bohling. Statement that Bohling is the director of optimal performance for the Yankees; Discussion of the anger management skills needed by Yankees baseball player Randy Johnson; Question of what message Yankees' owner George Steinbrenner is trying to send to Manager Joe Torre by hiring Bohling.

The article reports that Lotan Fisher and Ron Schwartz from Israel had won at the Cavendish Pairs tournament in New York. Fisher and Schwartz finished with 481.15 international match points, that was 63.55 ahead of Philippe Cronier and Jean-Christophe Quantin from France. Their performance was considered as the most impressive, because they led after each of the six sessions against a very strong field that included 7 of the world's Top 10 ranked players.

On a warm Saturday afternoon at Citi Field, the San Diego Padres became Johan Santana's playthings. He teased them with changeups that made them lose their footing. He taunted them with fastballs that zipped maddeningly close to the boundaries of the strike zone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It was very rare and a little strange for so much to be riding on a performance of a Verdi mainstay like ''La Traviata.'' But so it was on Sunday afternoon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music when New York City Opera, in its new manifestation as a roving urban company, opened its bare-bones season with the director Jonathan Miller's intelligent and modest production of this audience favorite. For many longtime supporters, City Opera's ability to return, after abandoning its Lincoln Center home, was something to cheer. But other veteran patrons saw it differently: after a crippling financial crisis and a protracted period of internal strife, the company has re-emerged as merely a touring outfit. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

THE actor Morgan Spector moved to New York in 2006, one in an infinite line of newcomers to the city looking to start afresh. Of course ''it's different being a middle-class white kid coming from Northern California,'' he acknowledged. ''But I was still coming to reinvent myself, to realize this dream that I had. There is something about that immigrant thing that I love.'' Playwrights love immigrants too, and in the past several years Mr. Spector has played two of them onstage. He made his Broadway debut as the gentle Rodolpho, a penniless Italian emigre, in Gregory Mosher's revival of Arthur Miller's ''View from the Bridge.'' And he can now be seen, in a performance as dangerous as it is sexy, as the brutal Boris, whose arrival in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, catalyzes the action in the New Group's production of Erika Sheffer's ''Russian Transport.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A city board voted on Thursday night to close 18 schools and eliminate the middle school grades at five others, citing poor performance. The decision drew howls of opposition from hundreds of teachers' union members, parents and students, who gathered in the auditorium of Brooklyn Technical High School along with a group that was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

GREENBURGH, N.Y. The cheers begin when he rises from the bench, swell in a joyous, raucous crescendo as he reaches midcourt and explode into an all-out roar when his toes cross the sideline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

All signs point to the public release of performance rankings for thousands of New York City teachers in 2012. The records rate 12,000 of the city's 75,000 teachers and are based on how much progress students made on the state's standardized tests, a controversial measurement tool. After several court rulings favoring the rankings' disclosure, the teachers' union is running out of legal options to keep them confidential. Losing on this issue would not be likely to undermine the union's political clout, though. Public education will undoubtedly play a central role in the 2013 mayoral race, and candidates will be expected to lay out their visions for the future once their campaigns pick up steam. One key question will be whether they will push to keep the schools under mayoral control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

''BEST of'' lists are approximate endeavors. I was sorry I couldn't attend the Mostly Mozart Festival's ''Don Giovanni,'' one of many tantalizing events I missed. But the following proved highlights of my year. 'CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN' A host of unusual creatures have appeared with Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic recently. After the eye-popping characters of Gyorgy Ligeti's absurdist opera ''Le Grand Macabre'' last year came the whimsical creatures of Janacek's opera ''The Cunning Little Vixen'' in June. Mr. Gilbert conducted a vibrant performance of the score in Doug Fitch's enchanting production. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Onstage in ''The Nutcracker'' Fritz, the brother of the child heroine, is never alone. You see him in the company of his sister, his parents, his friends and the mysterious visiting magician Drosselmeier. On Tuesday, however, in the live high-definition cinema broadcast of George Balanchine's production for New York City Ballet, there were moments when he -- vividly performed by 9-year-old Maximilian Brooking Landegger -- filled the vast screen all by himself. Naughty, impulsive, vulnerable, he became more funnily irresistible than ever. This performance played live in 600 movie theaters around the United States; this month it will be repeated in cinemas in Britain, Germany, Austria, Australia, Spain and Portugal. Maximilian and the other children onstage took to the screen as to the manner born. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KEY PERFORMANCE Mathias Kiwanuka was originally a defensive end before shifting to linebacker, but Sunday he spent time at his old position, playing on the line as the Giants frequently used their nickel defense. Kiwanuka recorded six tackles, a sack and a forced fumble, showing he has not forgotten any of his old techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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Trisha Brown, the modern dance choreographer, is to receive a ''Bessie'' award for lifetime achievement, the selection committee for the awards announced Tuesday. The Bessies, formally known as the New York Dance and Performance awards, and established in 1983 are named for the dance educator and mentor Bessie Schonberg. Ms. Brown's award is the first of what will become an annual honor for choreographers, Lucy Sexton, the director of the Bessies, said on Tuesday. Ms. Brown was cited by the selection committee for ''the influence of both her distinctive movement style and inquisitive choreographic drive'' throughout the world of dance. The award ceremony is to be held on Oct. 24 at the Apollo Theater and will be hosted by Bebe Neuwirth, with a performance by students from the Harlem School of the Arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

PERFORMING two of Shakespeare's ''problem plays'' in repertory during the wilting summer nights, contending all the while with low-flying helicopters and errant raccoons, can be challenging. But summer at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where ''Measure for Measure'' and ''All's Well That Ends Well'' are both in previews, should be a snap for John Cullum. After all, this is a man who not too long ago opened ''August: Osage County'' with what amounted to a 16-minute monologue, then made a brisk walk to his second performance of the night -- a Tom Stoppard translation of the Gerald Sibleyras drama ''Heroes'' -- with a quick stop at a 99-cent pizza stand on the way. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

SOME will be celebrating the end of a year of anxiety. Some, an entire decade of it. And some will be celebrating simply because they just paid $100 to enter a bar for the evening, so they darn well better get some celebration out of it. Whatever the reason, New York has no shortage of ways to ring in 2010, and one of the best is with a live soundtrack. Bands add long-forgotten nuggets to their sets. D.J.'s give dancers a few more reasons to throw their hands up. And of course all music sounds better when you're wearing a sparkly cardboard cone on your head. To aid your revelry, the pop and jazz critics of The New York Times have chosen some of the most promising shows. It's a varied menu, with Antibalas, whose members provide the Afrofunk soundtrack of ''Fela!'' on Broadway; legendary singers, be they Chuck Berry or Patti Smith; and sets by celebrity D.J.'s like Victor Calderone that go all night and into the next day. BEN SISARIO Here are the choices of the pop and jazz critics of The New York Times for this year's most promising New Year's Eve events in the New York metropolitan region. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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]

The Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood usually brings together composers of many stripes in a concentrated jamboree of new and recent works, punctuated now and again by a venerable modernist classic. This year's festival, which started on Sunday and runs through Thursday, is different. To celebrate the life of Elliott Carter, who turns 100 on Dec. 11, the Tanglewood Music Center -- Tanglewood's teaching arm, which runs the festival -- is devoting this year's programs entirely to his music, presenting 47 works in 10 concerts, along with panels, interviews and a video screening. There is another crucial difference. James Levine, the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a devoted fan of Mr. Carter's, cares deeply about new music and has removed the wall that has long existed between the orchestra and the festival. He has taken on the directorship of this year's installment, and he spent two years assembling the programs. He planned to conduct several concerts as well but withdrew because of his kidney surgery this month. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the performance of the men's cross-country team of New York University in New York City during the year 2007. The team has not been defeated during the period. It has won 124 races. It finished first in a field of 38 teams at the Atlantic Regional athletic meet held in November 2007. The team uses various courses to train in New York City.

The article focuses on the performance of several runners during the Fifth Avenue Mile, a series of running races held in Manhattan, New York City on September 29, 2007. Alan Webb won the men's professional race. Webb completed the race in 3 minutes and 52.7 seconds. Carmen Douma-Hussar won the women's professional race.

The article offers news briefs related to the performance of several tennis players during the first round of the U.S. Open Championships, a tennis tournament being played in New York City in the year 2007. Tennis player Nikolay Davydenko defeated Jesse Levine during a match played on August 27, 2007. Roger Federer won his match against Scoville Jenkins. Tennis player Jelena Jankovic defeated Jarmila Gajdosova during another match.

The article focuses on French tennis player Marion Bartoli. Information is given that Bartoli credits to her account a victory in the Wimbledon semifinals of 2007, against Justine Henin, and she was also junior champion of the U.S. Open tennis tournament for the year 2001. It is reported that Bartoli owes her success to her father's unorthodox training methods.

The article focuses on the performance of tennis player Roger Federer in the three consecutive U.S. Open tennis tournaments of the year 2004, 2005, and 2007. It is reported that Roger won the U.S. Open 2004 by 6-0,7-6,6-0, becoming the first player after Mats Wilander to win three Grand Slam titles in a season. Roger has earned a total prize money of $3,514,000 by playing in the U.S. Open.

The article focuses on the prospects of several women tennis players in the U.S. Open tennis tournament for the year 2007. As per the author, Mari Sharapova, who is fighting a leg muscle strain, has favorable chances in the Open tournament. The performance of Ana Ivanovic, who reached the semifinals of the Wimbledon tennis tournament 2007, is also discussed. As per the author, the chances of Serena Williams are bright in Open as most of the women tennis players are injured.

The article focuses on the prospects of various tennis players in the U.S. Open tennis tournament for the year 2007, considering their past performances. James Blake who finished the year 2006 as a rank 4 player, is a favorite at the Open. John Isner has made a wild card entry into the Open after he lost to Andy Roddick in the finals of a tournament in Washington in 2007. Performance of Novak Djokovic in Open, who won the Rogers Cup tournament in August 2007, is also anticipated upon.

The article presents information on the performance of golfer Rory Sabbatini on the first day of the FedEx Cup playoffs at the Barclays at Westchester County Club in New York. It is stated that Sabbatini has shot an eight-under-par 63 to take a one-shot lead over Rich Beem and K.J. Choi and a two shot lead over four players. Sabbatini, who was disappointed because of Tiger Woods's absence at the event, said that it is kind of backfired in the sense by Tiger skipping the first event.

The article focuses on the impact of the performance of the basketball team New York Knicks on the sale of tickets at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The team's poor performance during the last few years means that there is no guarantee that all the seats in the arena will be sold during a game. It won 23 matches and lost 59 matches during the year 2005.

The article reports on the performance of the football team New York Jets during the 2005 season.

Previews several cabaret shows in New York City.

Previews several music performances in New York City.

Focuses on the strike of New York City teachers demanding a performance-pay system similar to one implemented to Denver teachers. Negotiations undertaken by the state government and the city teachers of a performance-pay system; Assertion of the author that contract changes are difficult to achieve in any district; Impediments to the plan of the teachers.

Focuses on the factors influencing the increase on the level of unemployment rate in New York City. Impact of economic downturn on the business performance of various companies; Rise on the population of the area; Assessment on the performance of the employees.

Reports on the documentation of the performance of various students in New York City. Efforts of the teachers to post the test scores of the students at the Web site of the Department of Education; Enhancement on the curriculum of several schools; Improvement on the quality of education.

Presents a letter to the editor about the performance of basketball player Teresa Weatherspoon in New York City.

Focuses on the significance of the shiny gold bell bought by David Baker, commissioner of the Arena Football League, to the staff of the commissioner in New York City. Awareness on the performance of the team; Level of achievements; Use of the bell during the announcement of various accomplishments.

Reports on the impact of the transfer of Alex Rodriguez, baseball player, at the New York Mets on the performance of the team. Factors affecting the career of baseball player Derek Jeter; Level of competition; Need of restructuring the terms of the contract signed by Alex Rodriguez with the team.

Provides information on the match up of the basketball teams Seton Hall University and Notre Dame College in New York City. Assessment on the performance of Chris Thomas, player of Seton Hall University, during the competition; Comparison of scores; Level of achievements.

Focuses on the factors affecting the performance of various basketball teams in New York City.

Provides information on the performance of various basketball teams in New York City.

Focuses on the peformance of various women basketball teams in New York City. Details on the scores of Rutgers University against the University of Connecticut; Level of competition; Number of awards received.

Reports on the recognition of Saint Joseph basketball team for winning against the Rhode Island team during the 2004 College Basketball Roundup in New York City. Assessment on the peformance of the players; Number of awards received; Details on the scores of the basketball teams.

Focuses on the factors affecting the career of John Daly, famous golf player in New York City. Number of awards received; Assessment on the previous performance of John Daly.

Highlights the minifestival sponsored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City. Selection of different motion pictures; Number of attendees during the event; Criticisms on the performance of the actors and actresses.

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.