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Category: Theater
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‘Shucked’: A Broadway Musical That Doubles Down on the Corn
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Catching Up With Hillary Clinton at “Bob Fosse’s Dancin’”
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:The former secretary of state celebrated the opening on Broadway and shared her thoughts on those drag show bans.
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Broadway’s ‘Room,’ Starring Adrienne Warren, Postpones Run Indefinitely
The New York Times – Movies:The show, scheduled to open in April at the James Earl Jones Theater, was adapted from Emma Donoghue’s best-selling 2010 novel.
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Final Sondheim Musical Will Be Staged in New York This Fall
The New York Times – Movies:His long-gestating final show, now titled “Here We Are,” is coming to the Shed; it is inspired by two Luis Buñuel films.
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The Female Artisans Honoring, and Reinventing, Japanese Noh Masks
The New York Times – T Magazine:In taking on the male-dominated theatrical craft, contemporary women carvers are changing the face of a centuries-old tradition.
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Review: In ‘The Harder They Come,’ Innocence Lost to a Reggae Beat
The New York Times – Music:A stage adaptation of the 1972 movie about a Jamaican singer turned outlaw hero sounds great but falls hard at the Public Theater.
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The Unsinkable Marilyn Maye
The New York Times – Music:Nearing 95, the inimitable singer is about to make her Carnegie Hall solo debut. In an eight-decade career, it’s a crowning moment — and just another gig.
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Micaela Diamond, From Broadway’s ‘Parade,’ Sings Her Favorite Joni Mitchell Song
The New York Times – T Magazine:The actor, who learned to love music at her local temple, has developed a different relationship to her Judaism onstage.
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A Conductor Arrives at Encores! With Jerry Herman’s ‘Dear World’
The New York Times – Music:Mary-Mitchell Campbell, the series’ new music director, will lead a restored performance of “Dear World,” starring Donna Murphy.
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Review: In ‘Misty,’ a Restless Artist Grapples With a Gentrifying City
The New York Times – Music:At the Shed, Arinzé Kene mixes spoken word, music and comedy to tell a story of racial tension and male identity in a changing London.
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‘A Doll’s House’ Review: Jessica Chastain Plots an Escape
The New York Times – Movies:Jamie Lloyd’s compelling, surgically precise revival of Ibsen’s 1879 drama throbs like an episode of “CSI: Norway.”
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Topol, Star of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on the Screen and the Stage, Dies at 87
The New York Times – Movies:Wide acclaim for the role of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, “Israel’s most famous export since the Jaffa orange.”