Entertainment & Arts
Arts* Backers expect to spend $250 million to restore and expand the historic theater in Harlem.
July 6, 2002
Music
On the second of his two nights at the Apollo Theater in New York’s Harlem, Drake halted the show after he was informed that a concertgoer fell.
Jan. 23, 2023
Thousands of Michael Jackson fans converged on Harlem’s famed Apollo Theater on Tuesday for a public tribute to the performer, clutching photographs, cheering and dancing to his music at the legendary venue that launched the onetime child star’s career.
July 1, 2009
Columbia University and the Apollo Theater Foundation plan to create an oral history of the famed Harlem theater that launched the careers of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and other music legends.
Oct. 25, 2008
Morbid Angel were set to perform at the Apollo Theatre in Belvedere, Ill., on Friday but canceled the show ‘due to a Tornado that hit the venue.’
April 3, 2023
In 1965, nine Asian Americans working in theater were tired of being relegated to roles like villain or cab driver and fed up with the regular indignity of white actors playing Asian roles.
June 13, 2019
Movies
Documentary on “The Apollo,” the storied Harlem music venue where James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Stevie Wonder and many more, made history.
Oct. 31, 2019
Ralph Cooper, who started Amateur Night at Harlem’s landmark Apollo Theater, launching the careers of such stars as Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, has died, his family announced Wednesday.
Aug. 7, 1992
Travel & Experiences
A massive Saturn V rocket is the centerpiece of a new $37-million museum devoted to NASA’s Project Apollo, which put the first astronauts on the moon in 1969.
Dec. 15, 1996
World & Nation
The ceiling or the balcony falls during a performance at London’s Apollo Theatre. The audience is at first confused as the cast watches in horror.
Dec. 19, 2013