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Joey Scarborough Red Lobster has joined other corporate entities such as Duane Reade, Rite Aid, The Gap and Modell’s in the vicinity of the Apollo Theater. You needn’t set one foot inside today’s Apollo Theater to see how radically the world has changed since its heyday. Surrounding the venue’s storied walls stand outlets for Rite Aid, Duane Reade and, as ...

Joan Marcus Patina Miller as the Leading Player in the revival of “Pippin” There are only nine days until 2013’s final curtain. What went down, and up, this year? Lots. Men dressed as women (“Twelfth Night,” “Richard III, “Kinky Boots”), and women as men (“Julius Caesar”). Tots went titular (“Matilda”), and Theatre for a New Audience got a permanent home. ...

Helen Warner/Helen Warner Ciaran Hinds (l.) and Michael McElhatton in ‘The Night Alive’ Conor McPherson’s moody new drama, “The Night Alive,” focuses on two down-and-out Dubliners who meet by chance. Sweet, right? Not really. McPherson is a playwright who embraces life’s dark streaks and mysteries. He has gone there before many times, including in his ghostly dramas “The Weir” and ...

©2013 Joan Marcus From left, Stephanie J. Block, Rory O’Malley, Hannah Nordberg, David Rasche and Will Swenson in “LIttle Miss Sunshine” Charm, like lightning, seldom strikes twice. Even more so when that charm is as quirky as the brand found in “Little Miss Sunshine,” a 2006 indie film about the hapless Hoover family — misfits en route to a preteen ...

Julia Xanthos/New York Daily News The hits Macklemore rapped Wednesday functioned as much as confessionals as songs. They made their name with low-budget videos, homemade recordings and a song about trolling for bargains in thrift stores. But the latest tour by the hit hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis boasts a full horn section, two string players, three dancers and ...