''An avalanche of words'' is how Mark Waldrop, the host of the Lyrics & Lyricists program ''Mad Dogs and Educated Fleas: Nöel and Cole, a Battle of Wits'' described the program at the 92nd Street Y on Saturday evening. By the end of the two-and-a-half-hour show, the Kaufmann Concert Hall was half-buried in drifts of refined light verse invented...
Around Town Museums and Sites Bronx Museum of the Arts: 'Baseball in the Bronx: Nine Innings of Bronx Baseball' (Friday through Sunday, and Thursday) This show, which will be up through May 13, includes photographs of amateur and professional players over the years, as well as memorabilia of former players and others. Viewing hours for the...
LONDON -- Lindsay Duncan looks for much of the West End revival of ''Hay Fever'' as though she is dressed for success at the Academy Awards, and not just because she cavorts about in flowing, iridescent gold that recalls Meryl Streep's glistening get-up on the Oscar podium last month. And why shouldn't Ms. Duncan, a wonderful actress playing a...