Arts
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Juilliard Stages an Orpheus Rarity From Opera’s Early Days
What became known as opera originated in Florence, Italy, during late-16th-century equivalents of college dorm bull sessions. At the time, that ...
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Review: Dancing Bodies That Contain Multitudes
Can choreographers — or anyone, really — ever make something entirely new? Entirely their own? With her series “I Am Also,” the dancer and ...
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‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ at 20: The Film That Started It All
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” ruined Daniel Radcliffe’s expectations for what is normal on a film set. The Great Hall, where he shot ...
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Review: ‘Trevor’ Is a Musical That Dare Not Speak Its Theme
There is no lack of cheese, God knows, in musicals. Worthiness is also plentiful — and sometimes more off-putting. Still, until “Trevor” opened ...
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‘Belfast’ Review: A Boy’s Life
Romanticism reigns in “Belfast,” Kenneth Branagh’s cinematic memoir of his childhood in a turbulent Northern Ireland. From the lustrous, mainly ...
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‘Rust’ Crew Member Sues Gun Handlers, Producers and Alec Baldwin
A crew member for “Rust” filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the movie’s producers, Alec Baldwin and several other members of the crew who were ...
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Jon Hopkins’s Psychedelic Journey to a New Way of Creating Music
When Jon Hopkins was bullied as a London teenager, he found two complementary coping mechanisms: weed and ambient music. A little sullen and shy ...
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Cherry Lane Theater Is Back on the Market After Sale Falls Through
A contract was signed, both the buyer and seller authorized a sale announcement, but the deal — involving the Cherry Lane Theater in Greenwich ...
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The Glory of Nina Mae McKinney, an Early Black Star in White Hollywood
In 1929, just as moving pictures were learning to talk, a vivacious teenager named Nina Mae McKinney helped make them sing. Plucked from ...
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Whose Writing Is on the Wall at the Museum? It Could Be Yours.
While preparing the wall text for a museum exhibition about New York City, the curator, Wendy Nalani E. Ikemoto, consulted an unlikely figure in ...