The enterprising Tiler Peck has been a leading dancer at New York City Ballet for more than fifteen years, played a neurotic ballerina on Amy Sherman-Palladino’s “Étoile,” and created a number of ...

It's a rarity in Academy Awards history, but these acclaimed directors managed to make a Best Picture-winning movie with ...

"Jerome Robbins: A Life In Dance," by Wendy Lesser. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 6 years old.

Lesser sketches the basic outline of Robbins' life. He was born Jerome Wilson Rabinowitz in 1918 on the Upper East Side, where his Russian-Jewish immigrant parents owned a kosher delicatessen. Several ...

I had to set Jerome Robbins’ Broadway aside and make my own decisions. It has to be personal. It is me standing up saying, this is genius, I can’t wait to show you this.

“Here is the Jerome Robbins ballet that conquered the world and did so much good for America,” Sullivan intoned when he introduced the three excerpts – for which Robbins himself prepared and ...

In Bea Arthur's one-woman Broadway show in 2002, the veteran actress paid homage, sort of, to the late, great choreographer and director Jerome Robbins, with whom she had worked decades before in ...

The Jerome Robbins Foundation continues to safeguard the well-being of the division to this day. Robbins was named a Library Lion, the New York Public Library's highest honor , in 1999, and a Lion ...

Jerome Robbins and Jason Alexander attend the Broadway Opening Night Gypsy Robe Ceremony for "Jerome Robbins Broadway" on February 26, 1989 at the Imperial Theatre in New York City.

In the midwinter of 1976, Jerome Robbins was taking stock. “I like theater,” he wrote, “the theater of my life.” “I like my life to be full of events & action & ups & downs—dramatic ...

St. Louis In 1944 the untested choreographer Jerome Robbins shot to stardom with “Fancy Free,” a cocky little ballet about three sailors on shore leave during World War II.

With all his artistic talent, it’s no surprise that Robbins needed a quiet place by the beach to sort through his ideas. His two-bed, 2 ½ bath wooden-shingle cottage on an acre along the ...