Arts
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‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Review: You’ve Got a Friend (Not)
Making an ungainly leap from Broadway stage to movie screen, the musical “Dear Evan Hansen” is the story of a liar, an accomplished fabulist who ...
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The Long-Delayed Tony Awards Are Almost Here. This Is What to Expect.
Though Broadway shows are returning, opening and starting previews, audiences — and companies — will never be the same. The community has lost ...
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Review: At City Ballet, Getting Back to Showing New Work, Live
New York City Ballet’s performance on Wednesday night wasn’t its first in its home theater at Lincoln Center after 18 months. That happened the ...
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Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer
“Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror,” the largest survey of the artist’s work anywhere to date, officially opens next Wednesday, and is designed to be not ...
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Can ‘The Wonder Years’ Break Through the White Noise of Nostalgia?
Only white people, the pop-culture conceit goes, can get excited about traveling backward in time. For other people, the past generally looks ...
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Melvin Van Peebles, Champion of New Black Cinema, Dies at 89
Melvin Van Peebles, the filmmaker praised as the godfather of modern Black cinema and a trailblazer in American independent movies, died on ...
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Late Night Shares the Stage With Climate Change
Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are ...
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After 138 Years, a Black Composer Arrives at the Met
In 1919, William Grant Still was in his 20s — many years from the eminence he would later enjoy as the widely acknowledged “dean” of Black ...
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Britney Spears: End Conservatorship, but Remove My Father First
Britney Spears supports the prompt and complete termination this fall of the conservatorship that has overseen her finances and personal life ...
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In ‘Nuclear Family,’ a Filmmaker Frames Herself
Ry Russo-Young was 9 years old the first time she told this story, for an audience of one: the psychiatrist appointed to her case. Russo-Young is ...