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Three Dramas Explore the Margins of the Digital Form
Talking dogs, green screen thrillers and gold turtles: Online productions, intended as a stopgap, are testing the boundaries of what makes theater theater.Talking dogs, green…
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Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith present their latest work, a fierce, feminist look at objectification at Abrons Arts Center’s outdoor Amphitheater.Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith…
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Four new crime novels plumb the very depths of depravity.Four new crime novels plumb the very depths of depravity.Read MoreDead Dead Girls (Book), Books and…
View More Bloody, Bloody MurdersA Deceptively Beautiful Tapestry About Mourning
The artist Ebony G. Patterson shares an intricately embellished work that asks what it means to grieve.The artist Ebony G. Patterson shares an intricately embellished…
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Eurovision is the world’s greatest — and often silliest — song contest. But who will win on Saturday?Eurovision is the world’s greatest — and often…
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New work from Satoshi Kitamura, Lynne Rae Perkins, Shawn Harris, Bruce Handy, Hyewon Yum, Nikki Grimes, Elizabeth Zunon, Micha Archer, Julie Flett and Vera Brosgol.New…
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Since surviving the 2015 attack on the French satirical magazine’s office, Corinne Rey has created a graphic novel and won national recognition in a man’s…
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Ruth Padel tells the great composer’s life story, more profoundly than most biographies, in “Beethoven Variations.”Ruth Padel tells the great composer’s life story, more profoundly…
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Cave_Bureau, from Kenya, is making its debut at Venice by exploring the cultural significance of humans’ earliest forms of shelter.Cave_Bureau, from Kenya, is making its…
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