Arts
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Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music
The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music…
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‘Gun & Powder’ Review: Twin Vigilantes Stake Claim to the American West
The musical traces the story of Black twin sisters who pass as white, and exact their own form of justice…
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‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: War, Undemanding
Guy Ritchie’s latest is the platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing.
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In ‘Franklin,’ Michael Douglas Uses His Charm to Bankroll America
A new Apple TV+ series dramatizes the years Benjamin Franklin spent in France, leveraging diplomacy and guile to secure his…
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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…