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 ...
View of the auditorium from the balcony. The Apollo Theater opened on December 15, 1913 as Hurtig & Seamon’s New Burlesque Theater. The 1,853 seat theater is located in the Harlem neighborhood of ...
The building was completed in 1914, and renamed Apollo Theater in 1934. (ajay_suresh/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0) The building started as a venue for burlesque performances, and was renamed Apollo Theater in ...
*The Apollo Theater, the historic preeminent institution in Black music and culture, celebrated its 90th anniversary this week with its annual Spring Benefit, a spectacular evening filled with ...
Like any New York City neighborhood, Harlem is in a constant state of change, wrestling with gentrification while seeking to protect its history. In among that flux has been a constant—the Apollo ...
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 ...
Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. "Jonelle's leadership of The Apollo has transformed The Apollo into an ...
The famous Harlem theater will be refurbished. In the meantime, Amateur Night is on hiatus. By James Barron Signs at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and the Apollo Theater are among the latest to lose their ...
We’re still thinking about those Amateur Night auditions from Apollo LIVE @ American Dream last month—the energy, the talent, and everyone who showed up and showed out in Jersey. Big congrats to our ...