“Harmony,” about a singing group undone by Nazism, has been a decades-in-the-making labor of love for the singer and his longtime collaborator Bruce Sussman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMA statue of the Revolutionary War general, newly prominent thanks to the musical “Hamilton,” has been removed from its place outside Albany City Hall because he enslaved people.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMWith recovery no longer so secret, a new wave of plays dealing with its realities has started to emerge. Some of the playwrights have drawn from their own lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AM“The True” gives the “Nurse Jackie” star a rip-roaring role: An Albany power broker who may have had more than a professional relationship with the mayor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMThe actress known for pirate and period movies will star in “Thérèse Raquin” just as she is tackling her role as a new mother.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:31PMShakespeare & Company, a Massachusetts troupe, has endured increasing power struggles in its evolution from a small operation to a major regional player.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMJohn Pollono brings his dark comedy play “Small Engine Repair” to New York from Los Angeles, with himself as star.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03PM“Harmony,” which tells the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a vaudevillian German sextet, will return to the stage, much to the delight of Barry Manilow, one of its creators.  …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:15PMJudy Kuhn, a onetime Cosette, has grown beyond her ingénue fame and is eager for mature roles like the coming Fosca in “Passion.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PMAasif Mandvi talks about being “a brown actor” in a brave play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PMRobin Byrd, famed for her raunchy cable talk show and Time Warner’s bid to limit access to it, is back, but onstage, not television.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:46PMRachelle Rak, a longtime Broadway performer, is finally getting her chance to play Sheila in “A Chorus Line,” thanks to the Paper Mill Playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:43AM“Ghost Light” is a new play inspired by the life of George Moscone, the mayor of San Francisco who was assassinated alongside Harvey Milk in 1978.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMThe test is whether the adaptation of the quintessential stories of San Francisco in the 1970s has a life beyond the city.
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