Arts
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Review: ‘The Wiz’ Eases Back to Broadway
Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original…
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St. Vincent Dives Headfirst Into the Darkness
On a recent Tuesday night in a dressing room of the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, Annie Clark, the 41-year-old musician who…
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‘Abigail’ Review: Horror by Numbers
In this cheerfully unambitious vampire movie, a bloodsucker is shut up in an old mansion with some nitwit criminals. Will…
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A Millennial Weaver Carries a Centuries-Old Craft Forward
Spiders are weavers. The Navajo artist and weaver Melissa Cody knows this palpably. As she sits cross-legged on sheepskins at…
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After 70 Years, Si Lewen’s Wrenching ‘Parade’ Marches On
This sequence of 63 bravura antiwar drawings hasn’t been shown in nearly seven decades but they’re up again now, thanks…
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Review: In ‘Sally & Tom,’ Plantation Scandal Meets Backstage Farce
The 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks’s hilarious and harrowing nesting doll…
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Abe Koogler’s New Play Is an Ode to Intense Culinary Experiences
In “Staff Meal,” in previews at Playwrights Horizons, a restaurant becomes a refuge as the world ends.
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Before She Became Music’s Greatest Teacher, She Wrote an Opera
Nadia Boulanger’s “La Ville Morte” was repeatedly thwarted by death and World War I, then nearly lost. Finally, it is…
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Keith Haring’s Legacy Is Not Found at the Museum
Three decades after his death, his work is still sold on products and in stores. But his concept of public…
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On the Ground at the Venice Biennale
The exhibitions have been installed. The artists have arrived. The city of Venice is prepared to welcome throngs of visitors…