A small industry of classes, workshops and teachers has sprung up to provide support — for a fee of course — to the creators of solo performances.

Vern Thiessen’s new play, “Lenin’s Embalmers,” opens with the ghost of Lenin telling a joke.

From 1959 to 1979, Mr. Reed, a silver-tongued Gilbert and Sullivan singer, was the principal comedian of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company.

With New York grappling with enormous problems, some key Democrats were debating whether such a damaged and distracted leader could run the state.

Looks like the Jets won’t have Thomas Jones next season.
Jones, who becomes a free agent on March 5, will not restructure his contract and will be released by Gang Green this week, sources told ESPN.
The running back was set to get a $3 million…

Utilities across New York are working on restoring power to thousands of homes knocked off the grid by this week’s snow storm.
The problems were among their most severe in the Hudson Valley, where…

A disclosure that a rugby player in England tested positive for human growth hormone appeared to validate officials’ call to test for the substance in Major League Baseball and the N.F.L.

A disclosure that a rugby player in England tested positive for human growth hormone appeared to validate officials’ call to test for the substance in Major League Baseball and the N.F.L.

Students at the High School for Public Service in East Flatbush plan to break ground in April on a 10,000-square-foot vegetable farm on their campus’ front lawn. The first crop of vegetables could be harvested…

The fourth-ranked Orange staked a claim to a No. 1 seed for the N.C.A.A. tournament with an electric victory over the No. 7 Wildcats.