Arts
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Game Reviews: A Psychedelic Adventure and a Tedious Drive
The visual flourishes and floral secrets in Ultros make its claustrophobic passageways inviting. But keeping your vehicle roadworthy in Pacific Drive is too much work.
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Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring
“The Notebook” and “Cabaret” land on Broadway. Olivia Rodrigo’s tour stops in Manhattan. Plus: Herbie Hancock, Heartbeat Opera and Trisha Brown Dance Company.
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A Clever, Joyless Look at the ‘Commonplace Horror’ of Marriage
Lyz Lenz opens up about an unhappy union, and what she learned from it, in “This American Ex-Wife.”
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A Love Song to His Roots
In “Remembering Peasants,” the historian Patrick Joyce presents a stirring elegy for a vanishing culture.
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Ukraine, Gaza and the Long Shadow of German Guilt
In “Out of the Darkness,” Frank Trentmann details the way people in the country that started World War II are still confronting and atoning for the atrocities of their government.
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For Zelda Williams, Daughter of Robin, a Goth Zombie Comedy Is Cathartic
As the director of “Lisa Frankenstein,” she embraced a tale in which no one was concerned whether grief was palatable to others.
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Broadway’s Crunchtime Is Also Its Best Life
Eighteen openings in two months will drive everyone crazy. But maybe there should be even more.
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Jaap van Zweden Bids Farewell, and Other Classical Highlights
The Philharmonic’s maestro ends his tenure, Igor Levit comes to Carnegie Hall, and the Metropolitan Opera takes a chance on reviving two recent hits.
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Review: Seeking Purpose Among the Dead in ‘Spiritus/Virgil’s Dance’
Dael Orlandersmith’s slender new solo play is a meditation on living that seems also like a curveball response to loss.
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Juliette Binoche: Everyone Should Make Films With Their Ex-Boyfriends
The star of “The Taste of Things” explains why working with her former romantic partner Benoît Magimel was freeing, and weighs in on an Oscar controversy.