The classically trained actor has been acclaimed for his work onstage. But in ghost stories like “Insidious” and “The Conjuring,” he’s proven to be a…
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Taking advantage of a Billboard chart tweak in how the sales of physical albums are counted, the singer-songwriter’s six-month-old album returned to the top.Taking advantage…
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The event, spread out through the city’s dealerships, brought a model tried elsewhere to one of the sector’s major capitals.The event, spread out through the…
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Twelve years after a powerful earthquake devastated L’Aquila, in central Italy, the building’s inauguration is a sign of recovery. But there is still work to…
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“Paradise Square,” a comeback bid by a scandal-scarred producer, is the first previously unscheduled musical to announce its Broadway opening since the pandemic began.“Paradise Square,”…
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This Starz series about four women “walking into real adulthood,” as the creator described it, is broadly appealing but unmistakably based in Black women’s perspectives.This…
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The author of “Goodbye, Columbus” and “The Human Stain” left several thousand books, many of them with notes or letters, to the Newark Public Library.…
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The mayor’s office has asked the producer Clive Davis to sign up musical stars for an event on the Great Lawn in August.The mayor’s office…
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When The Times staged a musical number for its live event series, the performance served as a sneak preview of a theater world preparing for…
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