Arts
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Congress Signed the Checks, but Artists Paid the Price
In “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work…
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Audra McDonald to Star in ‘Gypsy’ Revival on Broadway This Fall
The six-time Tony-winning actress will play musical theater’s most famous stage mother in a production directed by George C. Wolfe.
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No Sophomore Slump for ‘We Are Lady Parts’
The comedy about a Muslim punk band returns for a raucous encore.
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‘MoviePass, MovieCrash’ Review: When They Take Your Company Away
An illuminating documentary about the ill-fated (though now-revived) subscription service finds an unexpected story.
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Amid Orchestral Waves, the Sound of Cultures Conversing
“Natural History,” performed in Cincinnati, is a collaboration between the composer Michael Gordon and the Native American ensemble Steiger Butte…
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At City Ballet, a Once-in-a-Generation Dancer Arrives
Mira Nadon, the rising New York City Ballet principal, is coming off her best season yet. And it’s only the…
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Review: For ‘Molly Sweeney,’ Not Seeing Was Never the Obstacle
The Irish Rep ends its season-long Brian Friel survey with the story of a blind woman who undergoes an operation…
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Which Cannes Films Might Become Oscar Contenders?
Films backed by the studio Neon have won Cannes and gone on to Oscar nominations regularly in the last few…
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Why Are Divorce Memoirs Still Stuck in the 1960s?
Recent best sellers have reached for a familiar feminist credo, one that renounces domestic life for career success.
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Feeling Lonely? Grouchy? Murderous? There’s a Spell for That.
In “Cunning Folk,” Tabitha Stanmore takes us back to a time when the use of “service magic” was an everyday…