Arts
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Broadway Grosses Dip as Omicron Prompts Some Shows to Cancel
The surge in coronavirus cases is starting to take a real financial toll on Broadway, just as the industry is attempting to rebound from its ...
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The Pandemic Struck Orchestras With Underlying Conditions Hard
For months, the musicians of the San Antonio Symphony had eagerly awaited the chance to play before full audiences after the disruption of the ...
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In 2021, Black Boyhood Got More Complex on TV
“Most men have no idea about the female sex drive,” Lillian Williams (Saycon Sengbloh), the middle-aged African American mother on “The Wonder ...
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‘Christmas on Death Row’ and a Stormy Season for a Storied Rap Label
“Christmas on Death Row” broke the streak. Starting with Dr. Dre’s “The Chronic” in 1992, every album released by Death Row Records went at least ...
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Best of Late Night in 2021: Trump’s Never-Ending Swan Song
Credit...From left: Angela Weiss/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Comedy Central; CBS, via Associated PressDespite Donald J. Trump’s loss to ...
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Lucille Ball on the Big Screen, the Small Screen and Offscreen
All of a sudden, here’s Lucy. The small-screen icon Lucille Ball has reappeared on the big screen in two current releases: first in fictionalized ...
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Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements
Before Franz Liszt, it was rare for pianists to do solo programs. But when Liszt was preparing to perform in London in 1840, an advertisement ...
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‘A Strange Loop’ Won the Pulitzer. Now It’s Coming to Broadway.
“A Strange Loop,” Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning meta-musical, is coming to Broadway this spring. The show’s producers announced on ...
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A $550 Million Springsteen Deal? It’s Glory Days for Catalog Sales.
In 1972, a struggling New Jersey musician hustled into Manhattan for an audition at Columbia Records, using an acoustic guitar borrowed from his ...
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The Best TV Episodes of 2021
From left, “Dave,” PEN15” and “Genius: Aretha” put out some of TV’s best episodes of the year.Credit...From left: Byron Cohen/FX; Hulu; Richard ...