Arts
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Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change
LONDON — It’s never a good idea for a critic to make predictions, but I’ll venture one: When the Metropolitan Opera’s next staging of Wagner’s ...
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‘Saturday Night Live’ Weighs In on the Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict
About a half-hour into this weekend’s broadcast, “Saturday Night Live” would devote an entire sketch to a character with a dog’s head and neck ...
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Review: An Orchestra Offers a Novel View of Music History
Pity the 19th-century American composer, toiling away in the shadow of Beethoven in search of a homegrown sound, only to be overshadowed by yet ...
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Review: Stephen Petronio Looks to the NYC of His Past for Inspiration
When the pandemic hit, the choreographer Stephen Petronio found himself grappling with the confines of space, especially when creating over Zoom ...
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Earl Sweatshirt Exhibits His Evolution, and 14 More New Songs
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs and videos. Just want the music? Listen to the ...
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Five International Movies to Stream Now
In the age of streaming, the earth is flat — screen-size — with travel to faraway destinations only a monthly subscription and a click away. We ...
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The Little Lad? Berries and Cream? Call It Performance Art.
The tale of the Little Lad is a yarn only the internet could spin. In 2007, the performance artist Jack Ferver appeared in a cunningly strange ...
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin Is Now New York’s Conductor
The set for “Porgy and Bess” had been pushed to the back of the Metropolitan Opera’s stage on a recent Wednesday morning, and in front, lines of ...
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Review: ‘Trouble in Mind,’ 66 Years Late and Still On Time
So far this season, five plays by Black authors have opened on Broadway, each with something urgent to say. Whether despairing (“Pass Over”) or ...
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Review: Twyla Tharp Looks Back, With an Eye on the Future
A few minutes into “All In,” a new ballet by Twyla Tharp that had its premiere at City Center on Wednesday, a surprise scurried in from the wings ...