Arts
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Jillian Mercado on ‘Generation Q’ and the Importance of Joyful Stories
This interview contains minor spoilers for Episode 9 of Season 2 of “The L Word: Generation Q.” In its five years on air, “The L Word” brought ...
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The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix, Amazon and Stan in Australia in October
Every month, streaming services in Australia add a new batch of movies and TV shows to its library. Here are our picks for October. New to ...
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Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’
“Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s season last week, was a milestone: the company’s first work by a Black composer ...
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Guggenheim Gets New Chairman, and Second Ever Black Female Trustee
At a time when the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is working to address charges from within its own ranks that it is “an inequitable work ...
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An Acclaimed Playwright on Masks and the Return to the Stage
In the theater, we smile. We smile because the show must go on. We smile, to quote Nat King Cole, even when our hearts are breaking. Unless we ...
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Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message
To get to Newtown Creek, a severely polluted New York City waterway and Superfund site once teeming with oyster beds, the Mohawk artist Alan ...
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How the ‘Many Saints of Newark’ Stars Remade Key ‘Sopranos’ Roles
From its debut in 1999 to its blackout finale in 2007, “The Sopranos” set a seemingly unsurpassable benchmark for acting. The cast members of ...
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Swing Today: ‘Our Dance Is Modern Because We’re Alive Right Now’
Choices picked out of a hat: It’s a gambit of magicians and improv comedians, a way of showing an audience that chance is at work and performers ...
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Review: In ‘Six,’ All the Tudor Ladies Got Talent
Are you an Elsa or an Anna? An Elphaba or a Glinda? Or, for those with more classic tastes, a Vera or a Mame? Musicals typically offer just two ...
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National Endowment for the Humanities Awards Covid Relief Grants
The New York Public Library, the USS Constitution Museum in Boston and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Charlottesville, Va., are among more ...