This year’s final full month of summer is set to start off with some serious drag-centric sizzle, when local fave Yuhua Hamasaki returns to the iconic place where she once reigned as Miss Stonewall. Performed on Wednesday, August 6, Â 7pm at The Stonewall Inn, An Evening with Yuhua promisees a unique and dishy cabaret experience […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. ******************************* BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Every year, the Drama Desk awards […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. BY MICHAEL MUSTO | No one is easier to hate on […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. Pearl River Mart Presents THE MONKEY KING IN CHINATOWN: ILLUSTRATED JOURNEYS OF […]
ChelseaCommunityNews.com (CCNews) is an independent online newspaper providing news, arts, events, and opinion content to Manhattan’s Chelsea community and its adjacent areas. That free content is made possible by advertising revenue, grants, and voluntary reader donations. Click here to contribute to our GoFundMe campaign. ************************************************ BY MICHAEL MUSTO | Scads of major shows have descended […]
Matthew Westerby Company Performance Season 2025 At the Murray Haber Theatre at Hudson Guild (446 West 26th St. btw. 9th & 10th Aves.) Thursday through Saturday, April 24, 25, 26 at 7:30pm and Sunday, April 27 at 5pm. Tickets are $30 General Admission, $20 for students, artists, older adults. To purchase, click here —ALSO— MWC’s […]
BY TRAV S.D, (Reprinted with author’s permission from its original publication here on Travalanche  March 11 is the birthday of downtown impresario Robert Prichard, co-founder and bull goose looney of the much-missed performance space known as Surf Reality (or, by the full title, Surf Reality’s House of Urban Savages). I’ve had cause to mention Surf close to […]
BY PUMA PERL | Sometimes it feels like a dream. The empty highways. The quiet streets. Except for the sirens and the seven o’clock clap. Alternate side parking rules suspended for months, no fares collected on buses, stores shuttered, senior hours at Trader Joe’s. People calling it the “new normal.†Nothing was normal. Everything and […]
BY CHARLI BATTERSBY | The comic book, sci-fi, and fantasy convention Cosmic Con has been around for a few years, having taken place in Queens. This year it moved to Chelsea at West 18th Street’s Metropolitan Pavilion for a two-day event (Feb. 15-16) that gave attendees a smaller but more intimate version of the bigger […]
BY TRAV S. D. | Jazz and pop vocalist Dinah Washington (Ruth Lee Jones, 1924-1963) started out singing and playing piano with gospel choirs in her native Tuscaloosa. She was only 15 when she won a singing competition in Chicago, prompting a career in area nightclubs starting in the 1940s. Her recording career began in […]