It's a hot-button debate that the nation's leading advocate for dance and theater, sculpture and opera has been spoiling to ignite for months: Does the country have more outlets for the arts…

SOURCE: Washington Post at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

How art happens by TOBY ZINMAN

Red, based on two years in the life of the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko, is a daring play about making art. In 90 minutes it shows us what a monster of self-absorption and narcissistic contempt our art-god can be.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

'Living Room in Africa,' With an Art Gallery Set Amid Poverty By PHOEBE HOBAN

Bathsheba Doran raises questions far too complicated for this somewhat simplistic play on race, poverty and disease in Africa.

SOURCE: theater2.nytimes.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

PLAYING IT BY ART By MICHAEL RIEDEL

WHILE theater owners, lawyers and general managers are still scrambling to get August Wilson's play "Gem of the Ocean" back on track for a Broadway run, the playwright himself says he won't …

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'Amajuba: Like Doves We Rise': Apartheid's Private Pain Becomes Group Art By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Tormenting memories dissolve into soaring music, and pain is salved by a collective embrace in this heartfelt, powerfully performed theater piece.

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West End Production of Long-Running Art to Close Jan. 2003

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ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: The Exploding Art of Set Design by Charles Isherwood

The immersive decor at some Broadway theaters treads dangerously close to kitsch.

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'Kafka' helps Hedgerow celebrate 85th year By Art Carey

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OBITUARY: Scott Kelman, 70; performance art guru, activist By Lynne Heffley

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Art and Politics Collide in Miami Bow of A Picasso, with Lucie Arnaz Working for the Nazis , April 13-May 2

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Lee Nagrin, 78, Innovator in Performance Art, Dies By JENNIFER DUNNING

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Richard Griffiths Replaces Michael Gambon in Bennett's Habit of Art in London

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State of the art BY PETER FILICHIA

New Brunswick theater announces 2004-2005 season

SOURCE: NJ.com at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

ART's mournful 'Keening' doesn't quite capture the heart By Louise Kennedy

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

TV Comedy Trio Debut in London's Art Oct. 14

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ART REVIEW | 'SEURAT AND THE MAKING OF 'LA GRANDE JATTE'

How Seurat Worked Up to Sunday By HOLLAND COTTER
The Art Institute of Chicago has spun a wonderful show around George Seurat's famous oil painting, which includes related sketches and works by contemporaries.

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