Arts
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A Historic Night as the Metropolitan Opera Tries to Ensure Its Future
After eight minutes of applause, the curtain had dropped for a final time, and many members of the cast of…
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Britney Spears Conservatorship Hearing: What’s at Stake Now?
Some changes have come quickly in the three months since Britney Spears spoke up publicly for the first time about…
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Ego Nwodim Used to Be Obsessed With Jay-Z. Now She Is Again
The new season of “Saturday Night Live” was less than a month away. But Ego Nwodim’s brain was telling her…
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How Billy Strings Picked His Way to the Other Side
Billy Strings did not know what exactly had given him the hangover from hell. Was it the previous evening’s onstage…
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‘Slave Play’ Was Shut Out at the Tonys. But It’s Coming Back to Broadway.
“Slave Play,” the buzzy and provocative drama that was nominated for 12 Tony Awards but won none, will return to…
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Tony Awards: Complete Winners List
The Tony Awards are taking place right now at the Winter Garden Theater. The awards show, delayed more than a…
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Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element
To make a dance to some of Handel’s “Water Music” and title it simply “Water” is just the kind of…
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The Surveillance Apparatus That Surrounded Britney Spears
Britney Spears’s father and the security firm he hired to protect her ran an intense surveillance apparatus that monitored her…
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Saving the Artwork of the South: Deep Investment, and a Drone
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — “I’m the conjurer of all my ancestors, 400 years of African people in America,” said Joe Minter,…
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How Leslie Odom Jr. and Audra McDonald Will Host the Tony Awards
The Tony Awards are going to be a bit different this year. Delayed by the continuing pandemic, Sunday’s in-person ceremony…