Judge Allows News Site to Publish School Lockdown Video but Sets Limits

Julie Menin, the speaker, said she had been given excuses for why contracts had not been provided. The mayor’s office called her request “extremely laborious.”

New York City’s public universities propel young graduates into the middle class. But some worry that a bleaker early career job market has added hurdles.

Hollywood actors in starry plays, skittish investors and gate-keeping theater owners have all contributed to an unusually tough climate for song-and-dance shows.