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Wednesday, August 30, 2017

A Mystery Ball Where the Illuminati Have Cloven Hooves by Andy Newman

Thirty partygoers board a bus bound for secret location and an immersive theater piece featuring a banquet, a naked swim and a plea for animal rights.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Rat Who Escaped Peril and Made It on Broadway Dies in a Fall by Andy Newman

Rose, a white rat who survived a roadside dumping and poison, died at home, just four days after she started acting in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”

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Friday, January 22, 2016

Pet City: Enter Rose, a Broadway Rat With a Past by Andy Newman

Abandoned next to the West Side Highway, taken in by an animal trainer, a white rat replaced a sick regular in a hit show ... you know the rest.

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Monday, May 25, 2015

City Room: Can’t-Miss Broadway Extravaganzas That Did by WENDELL JAMIESON and ANDY NEWMAN

With its cascading delays and cast injuries, the troubled birth of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” on Broadway has attracted a great deal of attention. Thus inspired, City Room p…

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