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Friday, February 17, 2012

ArtsBeat: Off-Off-Broadway Announces a Nickel Fundraising Campaign by Jennifer Schuessler

Some 50 theater companies plan to contribute five cents from every ticket sale to help bolster Off-Off-Broadway.

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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

ArtsBeat: Tale of the Floppy Disks: How Jonathan Larson Created 'Rent' by Jennifer Schuessler

A curator at the New York Public Library minutely analyzes the floppy disks left behind by Jonathan Larson, creator of the mega-hit musical "Rent.''

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Friday, December 16, 2011

ArtsBeat Blog: Stoppard's Pirandello Lands A Bigger Stage for Its One-Night American Premiere by Jennifer Schuessler

Red Bull Theater Company doing American premiere of Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Pirandello's "Henry IV," and has moved it to a bigger stage to accommodate anticipated demand for one-night r…

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For Richard Dawkins, Traditional Christmas Carols Trump Atheism by Jennifer Schuessler

Richard Dawkins, the prominent zoologist and atheist, just can't stand 'White Christmas."

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ArtsBeat Blog: 'Because of Winn-Dixie' Musical Hires Canine Star and His Trainer by Jennifer Schuessler

"Because of Winn-Dixie" musical gets its canine star and his trainer as part of creative team.

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Friday, December 9, 2011

'Blood and Gifts' Brings Afghanistan to the Experts by Jennifer Schuessler

The Council on Foreign Relations bought all the seats in the house for a performance of J. T. Rogers's play "Blood and Gifts."

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Friday, October 7, 2011

'My Last Play' Is One for the Books by Jennifer Schuessler

And there were a whole lot of those books.

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

A True-to-Life Setting for Voices From the Dead by Jennifer Schuessler

Green-Wood Cemetery is both stage and setting for "The Spoon River Project," an adaptation of Edgar Lee Masters's "Spoon River Anthology."

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Monday, April 11, 2011

David Foster Wallace, Self-Help Reader by Jennifer Schuessler

David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel, "The Pale King," may be unfinished, but it is still 548 pages long. Fortunately for busy Wallace fans, some shorter bits of Wallaceana have been popp…

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Too Much Information About 'Information'? by Jennifer Schuessler

Information seems to be everywhere these days. And the O.E.D.'s entry on "information" has kept pace - it now runs 9,400 words.

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