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The Plays Are The Thing
Four new American plays won Obies; Eight more were strong contenders. More >>
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Summer Guide: Dance
Yanira Castro, Natalie Green, Savion Glover, and more. More >>
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A Communist Party
Los Carpinteros moonwalk through the crack-up More >>
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Summer Guide: Books
Works by Gina Perry, David Margolick, Colum McCann, and more. More >>
Arts Features
Books
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Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments By Gina Perry | New Press | September 3 We all think... More >>
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"How angry am I? You don't want to know," begins the gripping first chapter of Claire Messud’s new novel, The Woman Upstairs (Knopf). The... More >>
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Art
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Jimmy Breslin was right: There is no more beautiful sight than a heaving street full of people. In Havana, on a sun-baked afternoon, that... More >>
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James Turrell June 21–September 25, 2013 From the Museum of the Hard to Believe: Light and earth art pioneer James Turrell has not had an... More >>
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Theater
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From a certain vantage point, it's hard not to suspect that stage veterans Lois Smith and Frances Sternhagen have been living parallel... More >>
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It was the worst of years; it was the best of years. I've never felt as much frustration and agony while theatergoing as I did during... More >>
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Dance
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Yanira Castro/a canary torsi: The People to Come June 25–29 Yanira Castro's 2009 Bessie-winning Dark Horse/Black Forest involved fraught... More >>
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Bill T. Jones could not be busier this week. His 30-year-old ensemble, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, just opened "Play and Play," a... More >>
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From the Print Edition
Los Carpinteros Moonwalk through the Crack-up
Jimmy Breslin was right: There is no more beautiful sight than a heaving street full of people. In Havana, on a sun-baked afternoon, that sensuous humanist observation goes double. Picture… More >>
Lois Smith and Frances Sternhagen Continue to Live Dazzling Parallel Lives Onstage
From a certain vantage point, it's hard not to suspect that stage veterans Lois Smith and Frances Sternhagen have been living parallel lives—a suspicion that only gained credence when, at… More >>
In a Bumper Year, Four New American Plays Won Obies; Eight More Were Strong Contenders
It was the worst of years; it was the best of years. I've never felt as much frustration and agony while theatergoing as I did during 2012–13, nor such a… More >>
Theater Summer Guide: In Mr. Burns, A Post-apocalyptic World Is Held Together Only by The Simpsons
A few years ago, a playwright, a director, and seven actors sheltered together in a disused bank vault far below Wall Street. Huddled behind a thick door that cell-phone service… More >>
Summer Guide: Art
James Turrell June 21–September 25, 2013 From the Museum of the Hard to Believe: Light and earth art pioneer James Turrell has not had an important survey exhibition in the U.S. since… More >>
Summer Guide: Books
Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments By Gina Perry | New Press | September 3 We all think we know the notorious Milgram experiments of… More >>
Summer Guide: Dance
Yanira Castro/a canary torsi: The People to Come June 25–29 Yanira Castro's 2009 Bessie-winning Dark Horse/Black Forest involved fraught duets in a lobby restroom at the Gershwin Hotel. For The People to… More >>
Songs of Disco and Dictators
When David Byrne dances he seems both absorbed in the movement of his body and detached from it, torso and legs vibrating rhythmically, face oddly expressionless. In his recent book, How… More >>
Hollywood Babble On: Jack Goldstein's Disappearing Act
With his aviator shades, shoulder-length locks, and blasé good looks, Jack Goldstein could have fronted some '70s band you don't quite remember. In actuality, the Montreal native who grew up… More >>
Lucas Hnath Fixates on Disney; Williams's Notebook of Trigorin Redecorates Chekhov
Audiences love obsessives. Set a character with a crazy, unquenchable hunger center stage and they eat it up, whether the character's hunger is for money, love, fame, or anything else.… More >>
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