Arts
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‘Kimberly Akimbo’ Will End Its Broadway Run in April
The Tony winner for best musical, about a high school girl with a rare genetic disorder and a criminally dysfunctional family, will begin a national tour in September.
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Review: The Philharmonic’s Maestro Revels in the Classics
Jaap van Zweden returned to the orchestra for the first time since October with a conservative lineup of works by Wagner, Beethoven and Brahms.
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In a Land of Primary Colors, Home Is Where the Bounce House Is
As part of Under the Radar, Nile Harris resurrects his play that weaves together text, sound, minstrelsy and dance to explore the American experience.
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Brooklyn Museum, Courting Pop-Culture Icons, Readies for Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz
Next month, over 100 works by Black art stars from the couple’s collection will travel to the Great Hall for “Giants.”
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‘Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go’ Turns 50
My wife was editing our teenager’s bedroom, hunting things to pass on to his younger cousins, or donate to Goodwill. He is a high school senior aiming for college next fall, and we have lived in this Maine house since his birth, so his room is jammed ...
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Audiobook of the Week: Safiya Sinclair’s Rhythmic Incantations
Reading her audiobook memoir, “How to Say Babylon,” the poet gives voice to her Jamaican roots, her early ambition and the Rastafari father who would have quashed it.
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Holly Jackson’s Maximization of Google Maps
In her “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” series and “Five Survive,” this British author makes herself at home on the East Coast.
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Taraji P. Henson Is Tired of Fighting
Before things started to click for Taraji P. Henson, she sought career counseling from the man upstairs. “I had a talk with God a long time ago when things didn’t pop,” she said. Invoking the women she had watched as a child, like Carol Burnett ...
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A Reinvented ‘True Detective’ Plays It Cool
There were times, a year ago, in Iceland, on a glacier, in the dark, in temperatures well below freezing, when Issa López thought to herself: “Who wrote this? What is wrong with this person?” López, the showrunner and director of Season 4 of the HBO ...
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With ‘Good Grief,’ Daniel Levy Goes From Laughs to Tears
A talk with the co-creator of “Schitt’s Creek” on making the transition to drama with his feature directorial debut.