Arts
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Review: ‘Fire’ Brings a Black Composer to the Met, Finally
On Monday, for the first time in its 138-year history and as it returned from an 18-month closure, the Metropolitan Opera presented a work by a ...
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MacArthur Foundation Announces 2021 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners
The historian and social critic Ibram X. Kendi is used to getting hate mail. And sometimes the disdain for him and his work takes the form of a ...
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How Billy Strings Picked His Way to the Other Side
Billy Strings did not know what exactly had given him the hangover from hell. Was it the previous evening’s onstage bottles of beer or post-show ...
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For a Broadway Torn by a Pandemic, a Split-Personalities Tonys
It’s no surprise that the Tony Awards ceremony on Sunday night took much more time and bandwidth than usual, swallowing up more than four hours ...
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‘Saturday Night Live’ Sets Its Cast as Beck Bennett Departs
“Saturday Night Live” isn’t necessarily a series known for its season-ending cliffhangers, but when this long-running NBC sketch show reached its ...
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‘Slave Play’ Was Shut Out at the Tonys. But It’s Coming Back to Broadway.
“Slave Play,” the buzzy and provocative drama that was nominated for 12 Tony Awards but won none, will return to Broadway this fall. The ...
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Tony Awards: Complete Winners List
The Tony Awards are taking place right now at the Winter Garden Theater. The awards show, delayed more than a year because of the coronavirus ...
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Mark Morris Dance Group Debuts ‘Water’ in Its Element
To make a dance to some of Handel’s “Water Music” and title it simply “Water” is just the kind of joke you would expect from Mark Morris. So is ...
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‘The Morning Show’ Remakes Itself. Again.
The second season of “The Morning Show,” the starry Apple TV+ series about a “Good Morning America”-style talk show, was six weeks into filming ...
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Comedians Turn Their Attention to Abortion
A stand-up show about abortion sounds like a bad idea. The comic Alison Leiby knows that. Just look at her title: “Oh God, an Hour About Abortion ...