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Arts, Briefly: Artist’s Daughter-in-Law Accused of Theft
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 7:23am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
The daughter-in-law of the Op Art pioneer Victor Vasarely is accused of stealing artwork from a storage site in Chicago, Agence France-Presse reported.
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Theater Review | 'Superior Donuts': So, How Would You Like Your Culture Clash? Joke-Filled or Sugar-Glazed?
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:17am GMT by By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Tracy Letts’s “August: Osage County” is a full theatrical meal. His new play, “Superior Donuts,” is a much less ambitious repast.
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Connections: Identities on Display: Bonding at the Museum
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:14am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
The contemporary identity museum is the kind of institution that is as central for our time as the imperial art museum was for 19th-century Europe.
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Dance Review | Foofwa d’Imobilité: A Master of Nonchalance in Control of His Illusions
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:12am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Foofwa d’Imobilité, even in this minor material, remains the kind of performer to whom I tentatively apply the word “genius.”
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Online Tunes, in Service to Africa
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:10am GMT by By ROBERT LEVINE
(RED), a nonprofit organization that arranges for companies to contribute a share of profits on certain products to fight AIDS in Africa, is starting a digital music service for that purpose.
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The TV Watch: Meet the New ‘Press,’ Without the Pinned-Down, Wriggling Interviewees
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:10am GMT by By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
Tom Brokaw, the former “Nightly News” anchor, made a point of breaking with the past as the temporary host for “Meet the Press.”
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Television Review | 'The War of the World': A Revisionist View of a Century Dominated by War
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:06am GMT by By GINIA BELLAFANTE
“The War of the World” is a brash, copious, assured investigation of 20th-century global violence.
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Books of The Times: Friends Reunited at a Wedding on Maine’s Rocky Coast, Dashed Hopes All Around
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:04am GMT by By JANET MASLIN
“The Romantics” manages to be more entertaining than many other stories without being notably more original.
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Bridge: On Road to Las Vegas, Finding a Trump Lead
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:03am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER
Look at the West hand and the auction. What would you lead against six hearts?
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From Trash to Auction, Faster Than a Speeding ...Well, You Know
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:03am GMT by By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES
Original comic-book art once wiped up ink spills. Now it pulls in big bucks.
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Music Review | Al Green and Dianne Reeves: Sweet-Talking a Crowd With Flirting and Flowers
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 4:01am GMT by By JON PARELES
An Al Green concert is a hodgepodge of virtuosity, teasing, flirting, preaching, making faces, dancing, flinging red roses and coaching audience participation.
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Dance Review | New York City Ballet: For a Good Cause: Bits and Pieces and Company Depth
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:58am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
As a benefit for its Dancers’ Emergency Fund, New York City Ballet presented a one-time-only galalike event, “Dancers’ Choice.”
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In Italy, ‘Eroica’ Energizes a Frail Fixture of Period Music
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:57am GMT by By DANIEL J. WAKIN
Frans Bruggen conducted Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony, batonless, with the Orchestra of the 18th Century at the Spoleto Festival.
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Dance Review | RedShift: With Skirts of Crinoline and an Accordion Too
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:57am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS
RedShift Dance unites two choreographers, Kelly Hayes and Katy Orthwein, who met as teenagers while dancing at Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theater.
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Arts, Briefly: Chicago Shows, Going and Coming
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:55am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
“Adding Machine” is closing and “The Strangerer” is opening.
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Arts, Briefly: Wim Wenders to Lead Venice Film Jury
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:55am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Organizers of the 65th Venice International Film Festival have announced that the German director Wim Wenders will head this year’s jury, the BBC reported.
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Arts, Briefly: The Winehouse Punch
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:54am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Amy Winehouse appeared to punch a fan during a show in England, the BBC reported.
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Arts, Briefly: The Robot Rules
Posted: June 30th, 2008, 3:53am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
The animated feature “Wall-E” earned an estimated $23.1 million at the box office over the weekend, breaking a record for the most lucrative opening day for a G-rated film.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 10:22pm GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from Vanessa Hudgens, Wolf Parade, Alkaline Trio and Soulja Boy.
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Music Review | NeoLit Ensemble: Celebrating Female Composers (Without Polemics)
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 9:23pm GMT by By STEVE SMITH
It was refreshing to encounter a slate of works by seven female composers, presented without any hint of corrective polemic. (Web exclusive)
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Dance Review | 'Vanishing Point': The Tombstones Have It
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 9:21pm GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS
“Vanishing Point,” by Tom Pearson and Zach Morris, is loosely centered on the idea of a funeral. (Web exclusive)
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Dance: O Romeo, Romeo, Wilst Thou Smile at This Finale?
Posted: June 29th, 2008, 3:06am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS
Mark Morris’s take on “Romeo and Juliet” uses a newly discovered score by Prokofiev that gives surprising life to Shakespeare’s doomed young lovers.
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Hazy Halcyon Days of Pot and Puberty
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 6:53pm GMT by By CHARLES McGRATH
With “The Wackness,” Jonathan Levine evokes high school in Manhattan in the early 1990s.
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Face to Face: A Council of Online Gamers
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 6:22am GMT by By SETH SCHIESEL
The inaugural meeting of the Council of Stellar Management in Reykjavik, Iceland, was a watershed in the evolution of online democracy.
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Dance Review: Walking, Falling and Bouncing Through a Mysterious America
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 6:11am GMT by By ALASTAIR MACAULAY
Mark Morris’s “Excursions for the Piano,” which had its world premiere at Tanglewood on Thursday, makes use of stage space both particular and peculiar.
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Film: A Girl’s Life
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 6:07am GMT by By A. O. SCOTT
An empire of American Girl dolls, books and now films has varied messages for its devoted following.
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Dance Review: Entrances That Open an Upside-Down World
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:35am GMT by By ROSLYN SULCAS
A soft knocking seems like an appropriate beginning for a work titled “Doors.” And it comes, on a child-size door, at the start of the Apparatus Theater Group’s performance at the New Theater in New Haven.
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Bridge: A Small Slam Appears Beatable, but ...
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:35am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER
The diagramed deal is from the final of the Reisinger Knockout Teams, played on May 23 at the Edgar Kaplan Eastern States Regional in New York.
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Movie Review | 'Thoda Pyaar, Thoda Magic': An Angel Rides in to Preserve a Family (and India)
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:34am GMT by By RACHEL SALTZ
“Thoda Pyaar, Thoda Magic” (“A Little Love, a Little Magic”) has a buoyancy and optimism that trump the predictability of its story.
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Music Review: Revisiting a Debut Album and Its Semi-Confessions
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:33am GMT by By JON PARELES
The songs Liz Phair released on her 1993 debut album, “Exile in Guyville” (ATO), spoke so frankly that the album sold half a million copies and has just been re-released.
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Saxophone Leaps Over Wall of Funk
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:33am GMT by By MUSIC REVIEW
Joshua Redman is a saxophonist of such intelligence and energy that you could probably place him in any musical setting, and he would find a way to make himself at home.
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Television Review: Laughter From the Assembly Line
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:33am GMT by By GINIA BELLAFANTE
“Factory,” a new series beginning on Sunday, is the first original comedy from Spike TV, which makes no effort in expanding its brand.
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To Build a Young-Adult Crowd, ABC Family Gets More Physical
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:31am GMT by By BROOKS BARNES
ABC Family hopes “American Teenager” will complete its makeover into a year-round, top-rated channel.
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:29am GMT by Compiled by Julie Bloom
Nelson Mandela, below, celebrated his 90th birthday on Friday in London with a concert in Hyde Park to support his global campaign to fight AIDS. Proceeds from the show will go to 46664, the charity named after Mr. Mandela’s prison number and dedicated to raising awareness of the H.I.V./AIDS epidemic. Mr. Mandela turns 90 on July 18. Video of the concert, which was scheduled to include performances by Amy Winehouse, Josh Groban and the Soweto Gospel Choir among others, is available at 46664.com. ... New York Theater Workshop has announced its 2008-9 season, which will include new works by Peter Brook, Michael Weller and Naomi Wallace. The company also announced the inaugural season of Off Again, a series of concert versions of revivals of Off Broadway musicals. Proposed shows include “Iphigenia in Concert,” by Peter Link; “Promenade,” written by Maria Irene Fornes, with music by Al Carmines; and “The Waves,” written by Lisa Peterson, with music by David Bucknam.
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Arts, Briefly: Frost/Nixon Film to Open Festival
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:29am GMT by Compiled by Julie Bloom
The movie version of “Frost/Nixon,” the acclaimed play by Peter Morgan, will open the London Film Festival in October, BBC News reported. The movie, directed by Ron Howard, reconstructs interviews between former President Richard Nixon, played by Frank Langella, and the British journalist David Frost, played by Michael Sheen, that were shown on television in 1977. Both actors are reprising their stage roles for the film. The annual film festival, now in its 52nd year, runs from Oct. 15 through Oct. 30. The movie also stars Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt and Sam Rockwell. The play, which opened in London in 2006, later came to Broadway and earned three Tony nominations in 2007.
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Arts, Briefly: Fox Tops Slow Night
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:29am GMT by By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by Julie Bloom
Fox ranked No. 1 in the ratings on a slow summer Thursday of network television, as “So You Think You Can Dance” led the night over all with 8.6 million viewers, according to Nielsen’s estimates. The 9 p.m. dance competition followed Fox’s 8 p.m. game show, “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?” (6.9 million), which edged past CBS’s rerun of “Million Dollar Password” (6.8 million) to win its time slot. CBS finished second for the night, attracting 7.2 million viewers at 9 for a “CSI” repeat and 5.7 million for “Swingtown” at 10. NBC was third, with “Last Comic Standing” from 8 to 10 (5.3 million) followed by “Fear Itself” (4.5 million). ABC earned a fourth-place finish with reruns of “Ugly Betty” at 8 (3.5 million) and “Grey’s Anatomy” at 9 (3.4 million). At 10, the first part of “Hopkins,” ABC’s six-part documentary filmed inside the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, led its time slot by a slim margin with 5.8 million viewers.
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Arts, Briefly: Dark Knight Pays Tribute
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:28am GMT by Compiled by Julie Bloom
The closing credits of “The Dark Knight,” the highly anticipated sequel to “Batman Begins,” include a tribute to Heath Ledger, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Ledger, who plays the Joker in the film, directed by Christopher Nolan, died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in January. The tribute, which also acknowledges the death of Conway Wickliffe, a special-effects technician who was killed in September in an accident, reads, “In memory of our friends Heath Ledger & Conway Wickliffe.” The film opens July 18.
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Arts, Briefly: Royalty Bill Moves Forward
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:28am GMT by Compiled by Julie Bloom
Musicians, singers and record companies seeking more radio royalties won an initial victory in Congress on Thursday. The House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property passed the Performance Rights Act, which would reverse terrestrial radio’s exemption from paying royalties to the performers of sound recordings, which satellite and Internet radio stations are required to pay. The measure still faces opposition in the House and in the Senate, which is considering its own version.
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Arts, Briefly: Ailey II to Berlin
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:28am GMT by Compiled by Julie Bloom
Members of Ailey II, below, the junior troupe of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, will perform in Berlin on July 5 to mark the reopening of the United States Embassy in the onetime capital of East Germany. The official opening of the embassy will be celebrated with a public open-air festival and stage program titled Amerikafest on the historic Pariser Platz, near the Brandenburg Gate. The official opening of the embassy will be on Friday, with President Bush and Chancellor Angela Merkel scheduled to appear. In addition to Ailey II, the soul singer Jocelyn B. Smith is scheduled to perform.
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Arts, Briefly: Swiss Firm to Design New TriBeCa Tower
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:27am GMT by By ROBIN POGREBIN; Compiled by Julie Bloom
The Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has been enlisted to design a new residential tower in TriBeCa that will incorporate a monumental public sculpture at ground level by the artist Anish Kapoor, the project’s developer said. The real estate company Alexico Group, which also developed the Mark Hotel, said a design would be released in the fall. The tower is to rise at the intersection of Leonard and Church Streets, and the sculpture will be fully integrated into the architecture. Mr. Kapoor, who was born in India and lives in London, is known for vast public sculptures like “Sky Mirror,” a convex stainless steel reflecting sculpture that was installed at Rockefeller Center two years ago. Herzog & de Meuron’s many projects include the new national stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the Tate Modern museum complex in a former power station at Bankside in London, and an expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
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Arts, Briefly: A Goya Downgraded
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:27am GMT by Compiled by Julie Bloom
The Prado Museum in Madrid said on Thursday that “El Coloso,” right, the oil painting of a looming giant long attributed to Francisco de Goya, was probably painted by an assistant. The authenticity of the painting, which was created during Napoleon’s occupation of Spain, had been disputed by a Goya specialist at the museum, Manuela Mena, The Independent of London reported. “Stylistically, it is completely alien to Goya,” said Ms. Mena. “The person who painted the bulls in ‘El Coloso’ knew nothing about the anatomy of a bull, which Goya knew everything about.” José Luis Díez, a curator at the Prado, also claims that initials at the bottom corner of the work belong to Asensio Juliá, Goya’s assistant, The Telegraph reported. The painting has been omitted from “Goya in Times of War,” a special exhibition commemorating the bicentennial of the start of the Spanish War of Independence, which runs through July 13.
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Bollywood Flavors Opening of Spoleto
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:26am GMT by By DANIEL J. WAKIN
The Spoleto festival began its 51st season with a splashy Bollywood-style production of an early-20th-century opera-ballet by Albert Roussel, “Padmavati.”
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The Odds Are as Big as Their Dreams
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:26am GMT by By PATRICK McGEEHAN
Michael Rodgers came from California to New York City last month to defy the odds of making a living as an actor, not to defy death by pedaling a secondhand bicycle through Midtown traffic.
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Fox News Finds Its Rivals Closing In
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:26am GMT by By JACQUES STEINBERG
Fox has seen its once formidable advantage over CNN erode in this presidential election year, as both CNN and MSNBC have added viewers at far more dramatic rates.
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Montreal’s Poet Son Heralds Its Festival
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 5:25am GMT by By BEN SISARIO
Three concerts presented as preludes to the Montreal International Jazz Festival paid tribute to Leonard Cohen, the 73-year-old hometown poet-hero on tour for the first time in 15 years.
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Dance Review: Some Crinoline and an Accordion Too
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 12:45am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS
RedShift Dance unites two choreographers, Kelly Hayes and Katy Orthwein, who met as teenagers while dancing at Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Theater.
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Film: Free to Follow His Heart Right Back to ‘Star Wars’
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 12:07am GMT by By DAVE ITZKOFF
George Lucas is revisiting his signature franchise once again. Then, maybe, at last, a small movie?
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Video Games: Aerosmith in a Can? No, in Guitar Hero
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 10:39pm GMT by By TAL PINCHEVSKY
A video-game franchise offers a chance to follow in a veteran rock band’s footsteps.
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Television: Welcome to Toontown, Radio Guys
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 10:35pm GMT by By ELIZABETH JENSEN
A call-in radio show about car trouble finds its way to PBS.
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Music: The Marimba, Rich and Warm, Makes Itself Heard
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 9:57pm GMT by By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
An underappreciated resident of the percussion section beckons, especially those with long arms.
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Music: When Ambassadors Had Rhythm
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 8:25pm GMT by By FRED KAPLAN
When America was having problems with its image during the cold war, the State Department decided to deploy its secret weapon: jazz musicians.
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Classical Recordings: Of Minimalism, Avant-Garde and Beethoven’s Sonatas
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 7:31pm GMT
Reviews of works performed by Boston Secession, Paul Lewis and Ensemble Intercontemporain.
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Close Reading: Mr. Surrealist Goes to Tinseltown
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 7:22pm GMT by By RANDY KENNEDY
Dalí’s worship of the movies translated into his work. His painting, “The First Days of Spring,” conjures up the feeling of a scene shot by a camera soaring high on a crane.
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Playlist: Voices of Genuine Originals, Chosen by One Who Should Know
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 6:37pm GMT by By WINTER MILLER
Country music star, Emmylou Harris, discusses music by Porter Wagoner, Rickie Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Linda Thompson and Robert Plant/Alison Krauss.
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Film: Fear and Loathing on a Documentary Screen
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:54pm GMT by By DAVID CARR
Hunter S. Thompson, who has been lionized in two feature films and is the subject of enough doctoral dissertations to build a bonfire, now has a documentary devoted to him.
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Letter: Architects and Ethics: One Dilemma Too Many
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:42pm GMT
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Letter: Brooklyn School Band: Mentor Is the Real Star
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:41pm GMT
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Letter: It’s Been Done Before
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 5:41pm GMT
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Art: Arts Patrons, the Next Generation
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 4:58pm GMT by By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
You can never be too rich, but can you be too young to carry on the family legacy of philanthropy?
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The Greeks Hoist the Dramatic Flag of Scotland
Posted: June 27th, 2008, 12:04am GMT by By CELIA McGEE
The National Theater of Scotland is bringing Euripides’ “Bacchae” to New York.
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Theatrical Families Aren’t All Onstage
Posted: June 25th, 2008, 4:03pm GMT by By ROBERT SIMONSON
The theater’s family businesses stretch well beyond those who put on the shows.
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2008 Tony Award Winners
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 8:27am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
A complete list of winners of 2008 Tony Awards, with links to the original New York Times reviews.
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Dance Review | New York City Ballet: The Jerome Robbins Touch: Playful as a Somersault or Ethereal as Glass
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 7:56am GMT by By GIA KOURLAS
As part of its Jerome Robbins Celebration, New York City Ballet unveiled another homage to the choreographer in “Bach to Glass: A Musical Odyssey II.”
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Separate Bloomsdays for Theater and Radio
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 7:55am GMT by By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Worries about James Joyce’s words and Federal Communications Commission rules have divided WBAI and Symphony Space over an annual reading of “Ulysses.”
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This Year’s Tonys Spread the Broadway Glory Around
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 7:01am GMT by By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Reflecting an eclectic Broadway season, the 62nd Annual Tony Awards decided to spread around the goodies.
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Television Review | 'Secret Diary of a Call Girl': Old Love, New Love, Ev’ry Love but True Love
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 5:08am GMT by By ALESSANDRA STANLEY
“Secret Diary” indulges the common male fantasy that whores truly enjoy prostitution.
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Music: Jampacked Bonnaroo, Beyond Jams
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 5:07am GMT by By JON PARELES
Bonnaroo started in 2002 as a jam-band marathon drawing latter-day Deadheads and Phish fans, but it has expanded every which way.
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EMI’s New Boss Sees Cracks in Music World
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 4:46am GMT by By TIM ARANGO
The takeover of the music company EMI, a cherished icon in Britain, by the private equity financier Guy Hands has been a chaotic culture clash.
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Music Review | Ensemble ACJW: Can We Talk? Lively Musical Conversations, With a Contemporary Slant
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 4:08am GMT by By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Every piece chosen explored the concept of concertato, the musical equivalent of a conversation in a lively, eclectic social setting.
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A Book Club Courts Liberals
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 4:08am GMT by By MOTOKO RICH
The new Progressive Book Club is inviting readers to join and buy three books at $1 apiece in exchange for the obligation to buy four books over the next two years.
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NBC Universal Brings Oxygen Into the Fold
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:54am GMT by By BRIAN STELTER
The Oxygen cable channel, purchased by NBC Universal last year, is beginning to embrace its new identity as NBC’s flagship female television brand.
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With Tim Russert’s Death, NBC News Must Replace a Man of Many Roles
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:46am GMT by By BILL CARTER and JACQUES STEINBERG
While open speculation about who might replace Tim Russert in his various roles at NBC News has been muted, a list of insiders for his role on “Meet the Press” is already circulating.
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The Media Equation: In Mourning for a Man, and His Era
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:46am GMT by By DAVID CARR
Amid all the laurels and praise for the life of Tim Russert, journalists and politicians seem to be fearing that he may have taken a way of life with him.
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Bridge: A Big Step Toward Beijing, Courtesy of a Well-Timed Pass
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:43am GMT by By PHILLIP ALDER
The diagramed deal was Board 8 from the final of the open trial in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., to pick the United States team for the first World Mind Sports Games in Beijing in October.
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Books of The Times: Truffle Hound and Trusty Snoop Unearth Grim Secrets
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:42am GMT by By JANET MASLIN
Ruth Rendell has ghoulish fun with the assorted elderly, eccentric characters who bedevil Chief Inspector Wexford in “Not in the Flesh.”
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Television Review | 'Weeds': Pot Dealers Washed Up in an Unchic Beach Town
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:38am GMT by By GINIA BELLAFANTE
For a long time it has been hard to know what “Weeds” actually stands for but too easy to see what it is against.
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Theater Review | 'Vincent River': In Modern London, Some Long Shadows of Despair
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:37am GMT by By BEN BRANTLEY
Philip Ridley’s drama makes it clear that a fully functioning, top-of-the-line haunted house can be erected from the dustiest blueprint.
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Connections: The Forest Premeditated: Illusions of Wildness in a Botanical Garden
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:34am GMT by By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Spend some time at the New York Botanical Garden and the entire idea of a garden, let alone a “botanical garden,” starts to become strange.
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Critics’ Choice: New CDs
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:33am GMT by By THE NEW YORK TIMES
New releases from the Hold Steady, Plies, Katy Perry, Guillermo Klein y Los Guachos and Bonnie (Prince) Billy.
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Music Review | Steely Dan: Pop Veterans Still Pumping Anti-Charisma
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:31am GMT by By BEN RATLIFF
Donald Fagen and Walter Becker seem like the kind of late-1960s hypercerebral born-cynical East Coast hipsters who are often found valorizing authenticity in aesthetic expression.
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Arts, Briefly: Jackson May Head to Las Vegas Strip
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:30am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Michael Jackson may be next to follow the well-worn trail of pop star footsteps that leads to the Las Vegas strip.
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Arts, Briefly: At the Box Office, Hulk’s More Incredible
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:29am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
“The Incredible Hulk” was the top box-office draw over the weekend.
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Arts, Briefly: Paris Opera to Host New York City Ballet
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:28am GMT by By JULIE BLOOM; Compiled by Steven McElroy
New York City Ballet will become the first non-French dance company to perform at the Opera Bastille in September.
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:28am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
Primary Stages has announced the cast of “Buffalo Gal,” the new comedy by A. R. Gurney that will be the first production in the company’s 2008-9 season.
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Arts, Briefly: En Route to Scotland
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:28am GMT by Compiled by STEVEN McELROY
This year’s “East to Edinburgh” festival runs July 8 to 27 at 59E59 Theaters.
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Arts, Briefly: A Theater Moves, Again
Posted: June 16th, 2008, 3:27am GMT by By ROBIN POGREBIN; Compiled by Steven McElroy
The site of a new home planned for the Theater for a New Audience in the BAM Cultural District in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, has shifted yet again.
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Playing a Leading Role in the Ruins of a Tornado
Posted: June 10th, 2008, 12:20pm GMT by By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
A new television series chronicles the rebirth of Greensburg, Kan.
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Books of The Times: The Unexamined Life? He Never Heard of It
Posted: June 10th, 2008, 5:07am GMT by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI
With “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” David Sedaris is like a stand-up comedian, rummaging through his daily experiences for comical nuggets.
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Theater Review | 'The Cocktail Hour': The Family That Drinks Together Bickers Together
Posted: June 10th, 2008, 5:05am GMT by By NEIL GENZLINGER
A. R. Gurney’s play must have seemed fairly thin when it had its premiere in 1988. Now it is in danger of registering as just plain annoying.
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Bob Anderson, 75, Child Actor, Is Dead
Posted: June 10th, 2008, 5:04am GMT by By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
