Latest Twyla Tharp News

Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 30-July 6

Jun. 24, 2024 09:53 AM EDT

Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 30-July 6: June 30: Actor Nancy Dussault (“Too Close For Comfort”) is 88. Singer Glenn Shorrock (Little River Band) is 80. Jazz bassist Stanley Clarke is 73. Actor David Garrison (“Married...with Children”) is 72. Guitarist Hal Lindes...

Twyla Tharp dance will open 700-seat amphitheater at New York's Little Island park in June

May. 06, 2024 13:18 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The 700-seat amphitheater at Little Island, a park in Manhattan built above the Hudson River on a series of tulip-shaped concrete columns, will open June 6 with Twyla Tharp’s “How Long Blues” in the choreographer’s first full-length work in a decade. ...

Choreographer Lorin Latarro, rock's whisperer on Broadway, gives flight to the Who and Huey Lewis

Apr. 09, 2024 10:25 AM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The quintessential rock musical "The Who’s Tommy" is thrillingly alive again on Broadway. And just a few blocks away is a new rock show featuring music by Huey Lewis and the News. The connecting tissue between them is the in-demand choreographer Lorin Latarro,...