James Sims

Portfolio

  • Broadway Direct

    Broadway Direct

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    James Sims

    Broadway’s Nederlander Producing Company of America, Inc. hired me to create its first online media entity, Broadway Direct, a mix of theatrical news and show information. Along with the website, Nederlander also had me design an accompanying bi-monthly newsletter, distributed to its 2-million plus email database.

  • Nick Adams Lands Priscilla

    Nick Adams Lands Priscilla

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    James Sims

    As Nick Adams left the stage following a matinee performance of Broadway’s La Cage aux Folles last year, he headed to his dressing room and discovered a voicemail message from his agent. He looked at one of his co-stars and said that he knew exactly what the message said.

  • West Side Story Brings New Flavor On The Road

    West Side Story Brings New Flavor On The Road

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    James Sims

    It started with a Colombian production of a Broadway classic. West Side Story, a beloved musical of both stage and screen, being sung entirely in Spanish. For the location, it was an obvious choice, but for New York City, not as much.

  • Walkthrough of World’s Largest Dinosaurs

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    James Sims

    The World’s Largest Dinosaurs (April 16, 2011-January 2, 2012), a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, goes beyond traditional fossil shows to reveal how dinosaurs actually lived by taking visitors into the amazing anatomy of a uniquely super-sized group of dinosaurs.

  • Gershwin Awards

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    James Sims

    I was tasked with designing a website and logo for the first annual Gershwin Awards, a New York City based event celebrating outstanding achievement in musical theater performance by students attending public and private high schools throughout the New York City Metropolitan Area.

  • World’s Largest Dinosaurs Teaser

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    James Sims

    The World’s Largest Dinosaurs (April 16, 2011-January 2, 2012), a new exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History, goes beyond traditional fossil shows to reveal how dinosaurs actually lived by taking visitors into the amazing anatomy of a uniquely super-sized group of dinosaurs.

  • Christina Ricci Gets Nervous About Broadway Debut

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    James Sims

    Hollywood stunt casting remains a hot topic around the Broadway community, but with ticket sales typically proving healthy for A-listers, there is little monetary incentive for a producer to avoid the stars. But the creator of Time Stands Still wants audiences to know that Christina Ricci, the latest movie star to join Broadway, did so…

  • My Summer Blogging for Lincoln Center

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    James Sims

    As summer rolled through New York City, and Broadway geared up for its latest season, I took time away from Times Square and travelled uptown, to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where I spent the warmer months working as the cultural institutions first Blogger-in-Residence.

  • Opera Plays the Hayden Planetarium

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    James Sims

    It’s not often that my work as an entertainment and Broadway reporter crosses paths with my day job as the New Media Specialist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, so when I heard that an opera was going to be staged in the Museum’s Hayden Planetarium, I was excited to…

  • Spider Silk Comes to the Museum

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    James Sims

    A spectacular and extremely rare textile, woven from golden-colored silk thread produced by more than one million spiders in Madagascar was on display at the American Museum of Natural History in the Grand Gallery.