Arts
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Best Comedy of 2022
Stand-up specials like “Rothaniel” pushed boundaries this year, and Netflix’s financial setbacks could mean that its dominance in comedy is…
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Review: ‘A Beautiful Noise’ Makes for a Morose Neil Diamond Musical
In the new Broadway show, Will Swenson plays the superstar, who seems perpetually dissatisfied, as if on a quest —…
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Review: ‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ Brings the Witches but Forgets the Magic
Deirdre O’Connell shines as a modern-day descendant of an accused witch in Sarah Ruhl’s unfocused new play at Lincoln Center.
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‘Are You in Your Feelings?’ Review: The Ups and Downs of Love
At Kyle Abraham’s premiere for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at New York City Center, dancers find intimacy in songs…
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The Word of the Year Goes Goblin Mode
A year ago, the lexicographic grandees at Oxford Languages dutifully stuck out their arms and chose “vax” as the 2021…
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Review: The Met Opera’s Grand Old ‘Aida’ Isn’t Dead Yet
But opening night of the huge production’s final run, shakily cast, presented a show that seemed to be begging to…
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‘S.N.L.’ Mocks Herschel Walker Ahead of Georgia’s Senate Vote
Also this week: The episode host, Keke Palmer, revealed that she is pregnant and Kenan Thompson reunited with his old…
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Courtroom Drama: New Legal Battle Over ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
Three years ago a new Broadway play based on the classic Harper Lee novel tried to prevent regional stagings of…
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A Sugarplum’s Swan Song
It began with a dream. Sterling Hyltin, a principal dancer at New York City Ballet, was starting to prepare for…
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For Centuries, Her Art Was Forgotten, or Credited to Men. No More.
The work of Michaelina Wautier, a 17th-century artist, was long overlooked. She is belatedly gaining recognition as an old master,…