It takes 15 minutes or less in each segment of “Three Short Plays by Tracy Letts” for the bard of male moral decrepitude to skewer…
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Met Museum to Return Ancient Sculpture to Nepal
Three years after returning two stone sculptures, the museum has decided to give back another artwork to Nepal, this one thought to have been stolen…
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With Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” the Met came back from its long pandemic shutdown more determined to draw new and more…
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In recent days, three new documentaries have come forward with revelations about the degree to which the conservatorship has exerted control over Britney Spears’s life.In…
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In “The Heroine With 1001 Faces,” the folklore scholar Maria Tatar explores woman-centered alternatives to Joseph Campbell’s famous template for myths and legends starring male…
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The company is performing the terse, original 1869 version of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov” for the first time.The company is performing the terse, original 1869 version…
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An exhibition in Berlin examines the differences, and surprising confluences, between Cold War-era paintings from the United States and the Soviet Union.An exhibition in Berlin…
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The 25th episode in the venerable franchise — and Daniel Craig’s last as 007 — finds its hero in a somber mood.The 25th episode in…
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The magazine caused an outcry last year after it published a fictional narrative depicting the legislator as an enslaved African.The magazine caused an outcry last…
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The hit sitcom, which ended in 1993, is back as play, premiering in Arkansas. But how do its laughs land in our more pointed political…
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