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  Your Cheatin' Heart

  Sirens bawl outside and an eerily familiar white dust coats windows and clothing. But despite these not-so-incidental touches, The Mercy Seatset on September 12, 2001is more a conventional relationship play than topical drama. Playwright and direct...

  by Tom Sellar on December 24, 2002

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  The Art of Dining

  When the hostess in Dinner at Eight says she's planning to bring her dinner guests to the theater afterward, she isn't talking about a late movie. She means that after an hour or two at table, they'll head west to Broadway and troop in late for the c...

  by Michael Feingold on December 24, 2002

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  Wild Card

  In her too-controlling but still dear press release, Dana Schutz, 26, writes that for her first solo exhibition she's painted a "fictional man from observation." Whether this means she actually studied or just imagined him, I don't know. Regardless, ...

  by Jerry Saltz on December 17, 2002

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  Making It Big

  In the early 1970s, the Pop and performance artist Alex Hay left New York City for the rural mining town of Bisbee, Arizona. It was a curious move for an artist so involved in avant-garde dance and Happenings circles: Hay was a regular in Merce Cunni...

  by Karen Rosenberg on December 17, 2002

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  Tangled Tales - Dancers Pull Out All the Stops

  The members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater pounce on choreography with the zeal of vampires offered a feast of blood, but a lot more elegantly. Up at City Center, where the company plays through January 5, they relish everything they do so...

  by Deborah Jowitt on December 17, 2002

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  Good Intentions

  Being a purist, choreographer Christopher Caines insists upon performing to live music. This is fortunate, since the musicfrom the lush-voiced soprano Veronica Burke and the mettlesome pianist Marija Ilicwas the only gratifying element in the "Musi...

  by Tobi Tobias on December 17, 2002

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  B & I.

  Jonathan Baumbach's 10th novel, B, is the book to read if you're sick of other books, something to beat the worst case of reader's block. In this fiction, the eponymous aging novelist tries to cure his writer's block by writing his life story. Every ...

  by James Browning on December 17, 2002

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  Road Scholar

  LONDONMad traveler and secret historian, Iain Sinclair maps the forgotten and forsaken corners of England most flaneurs would either overlook or avoid. In his hallucinatory metafiction Downriver (1991), he sifted the wasted banks of the Thames; in t...

  by Jessica Winter on December 17, 2002

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  American Rhapsody

  Every second of animation is divided into 24 separate drawings; sound effects are cued to individual frames; music is timed to six frames, or 10, or whatever signature is necessary for the on-screen mayhem. Despite such technical rigidity, the best c...

  by R.C. Baker on December 17, 2002

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  This Old Spook House

  The vigorous inner space of the imagination and the dark unknowability of the afterlife seem like utter contrasts. One is all sparking invention, the other an awesome shutting-down. But as subjects for a theater piece, they are entirely alikeat leas...

  by Alisa Solomon on December 17, 2002

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  Theater

  The Cash Stash Hash Take the money and run. The deceptively simple plot stratagem of Masha No Home (Ensemble Studio Theatre) sets up a series of complex dilemmas in this engaging family drama from promising playwright Lloyd Suh. The money, $30,...

  on December 17, 2002

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  A Turkey Season Songbook

  The Implausible Scheme (Aria for director) Tune: You guess. To build the most grandiose set, To dwarf the most noble ideal, To make every action seem puny, To mute every heartfelt appeal: This is my bent; I'm Jonathan Kent. Destroying the t...

  by Michael Feingold on December 17, 2002

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  Witches Right Again

  For a brief moment, Malcolm looks like he's going to throw up. Macduff has just rushed up the center aisle of the theater and deposited Macbeth's severed head at Malcolm's feet, hailing him as the rightful King of Scotland. The young king gapes at th...

  by Alisa Solomon on December 10, 2002

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  Camera Work - Holiday Photo Books, Both Extravagant and Accessible

  If the holidays are the time for extravagant gifts, there are plenty to choose from this year. At the top of the list are two boxed sets that would thrill any serious aficionado of photography: August Sander's seven-volume People of the 20th Century ...

  by Vince Aletti on December 10, 2002

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  Mac Wellman's Grecian Yearn

  Sophocles has some catching up to do. Long before his unyielding Antigone took her place in one of the most monumental of world drama's agons, she was rehearsing more supple and playful identities for herself, along with some perturbing proposals for...

  by Una Chaudhuri on December 10, 2002

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  Marrying the Arts - Subtle Dramas in a Snowy Land, Across a Table, and in Kentucky Caves

  "I arrived a stranger,/a stranger I depart." The winter wanderer of Wilhelm Mller's poem cycle Winterreise is not just mourning a destroyed love affair; he is slowly withdrawing from hope and life. In 24 ravishing songs, Franz Schubert transformed t...

  by Deborah Jowitt on December 10, 2002

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  Nuts

  Every work of art is rooted in the time, place, and social climate of its making. The most powerful and durable creations transcend these specifics. In the 1816 story that spawned dozens of Nutcracker ballets, E.T.A. Hoffmann evokes a psychological m...

  by Tobi Tobias on December 10, 2002

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  Grave Occasions

  Like their way of life, the characters in Our Town are all dead. Thornton Wilder probably wasn't thinking of vampire moviesthough he must have been thinking of movies, or why would the town gossip be named Louella?but I was as I watched the Westpor...

  by Michael Feingold on December 10, 2002

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  Top Shelf - Our 25 Favorite Books of 2002

  After Nature BY W.G. SEBALD Random House, 116 pp., $21.95 Buy this book The late maestro's initial act of literary imagination, only post-humously Englished, now stands as his accidental summa, a crepuscular blank-verse triptych that ranges...

  on December 10, 2002

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  Theater

  Addickatted to Words Like a strobe light beaming across a Bronx ghetto neighborhood, Boogie Rican Boulevard (La Tea Theater) picks out the locals hanging around one bodegaand the family that runs it. The dynamo generating this glow, writer-perfor...

  on December 3, 2002