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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opens Thursday on a six-acre site overlooking the Alabama state capital, is dedicated to the victims of American white supremacy. And it de…
Michael Cunningham: "The AIDS epidemic didn't mean the end of dancing, or sex, or drugs. It didn't have much effect at all on the general interest in youth, beauty and money. But it's puttin…
Sara Krulwich photographs about 100 plays, musicals and operas each year, and is generally the only photographer not on a show's payroll allowed to shoot.
It may not be a new development at this point, but it remains true. "No matter where they are from originally, they like to live and work in the German capital, producing art even if they do…
"In George Balanchine's Concerto Barocco, nobody dies, nobody falls to the ground, nobody falls in love. The only set is the sky-blue backdrop. The women's costumes, minimal, are white tunic…
"Six news awards were bestowed, with BBC News winning for its reporting on Rohingya refugees in Myanmar and Bangladesh. Among the winners was a Vice News episode on HBO, 'Charlottesville: Ra…
The Sai Yong Hong Chinese Opera troupe and its fans "are preserving a cornerstone of culture and heritage dating to the seventh-century Tang Dynasty (618 to 907), making it one of the oldest…
One of Ms. Churchill's merits as a playwright is that she tends to divide people. Her play, "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire," returns to New York.
This exuberant revival of Tom Stoppard's 1974 comedy of the intellect, starring Tom Hollander, is one of the sweetest and strangest defenses of art.
The way to document the finished works hasn't been completed yet, but each will be accompanied by extensive musical notes, Labanotation " a method for recording dances " interviews with danc…
A razzle-dazzle mash-up of "The Seagull" and "Hamletmachine" at La MaMa has a ramshackle feel.
With the Avengers movies, "the studio has breathed lucrative new life into its decades-old comic-book properties, and built a ravenous fan base for each new character it introduces at the mu…
"Over the course of a few weeks, we got a backstage look into the making of Playbill - the unmistakable, yellow-bannered magazine for theatergoers - and the transition of the 134-year-old Ne…
"Especially on Caruso's breakthrough records, the sound is scratchy, wiry and wobbly. The same holds true for early recordings of Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini and other luminaries of that …
The late Queen of Disco and pioneer of electronic dance music gets the Broadway jukebox treatment.
Lucy Thurber's compassionate but clunky play follows the bids of two young men from the Bronx to win scholarships at a New England college
Amy Schumer's "I Feel Pretty" movie suggests that the only thing holding back regular-looking women is their belief that looking regular holds them back at all. That attitude puts the onus o…
In his solo show, Paterson Joseph plays an 18th-century gentleman said to have been the first black Briton to vote.
U.S. college students just aren't good at essays, says one prof, and that's because no one takes those students seriously, not even themselves. "A decade teaching young writers has taught me…
Wow: "There was poetic justice of a sort in the auction of the poets' belongings by their daughter, Frieda Hughes, at Bonhams in London in March. Ms. Plath's lots, which included clothes, je…
Of course there's the Jeff Koons "Balloon Dog (Orange)," but as a museum of the Dachshund opens in Bavaria and the American Kennel Club prepares to move its AKC Museum of the Dog from St. Lo…
Acosta, who had a painful separation from his country and family in order to become a star in Europe and the U.S., says "I want to bring them to the world, but also to bring the world to the…
A French verse craze inspired a 1738 farce and now a comedy in couplets by David Ives.
J.K. Rowling's ever-popular boy wizard is all grown up in this enthralling two-part play, directed with seamless magic by John Tiffany.
He led the museum through competing curatorial arguments, staff strikes, and more, while also getting a massive expansion and a boost to the endowment. But it all began with books, and a clo…
