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The heroine of "Amélie," the new musical at the Walter Kerr Theatre, is a dreamy Parisian café waitress who channels her childlike wonder into staging anonymous good deeds on the streets o…
"Firstly, I would like to apologize to those of you involved in our little box-office mixup," a tuxedoed man with a posh accent tells us. "I do hope the six hundred and seventeen of you affe…
"Let's start the tour at Frank Campbell," Lindy Woodhead suggested, from the back seat of a limo. Woodhead"blond, vivacious, and ample"is the author of "War Paint," a joint biography of the …
The attention paid to movie scores"particularly in concert halls, where they're often played live to accompany screenings"doesn't, for the most part, serve movies any better than music. It's…
Classical-music presenters are placing big bets on new venues, such as Williamsburg's dynamic National Sawdust. But some of the most evocative spaces may be hiding in plain sight"take the Ch…
On a Monday night this winter, at a gala in a Beaux-Arts former bank downtown, the young playwright Rachel Bonds, whose luminous "Sundown, Yellow Moon" is currently onstage uptown, made a sh…
"I was operated on when I was five or six . . . I vividly remember the counting down from ten"I don't think I made it much past eight," Malika Favre says, about her inspiration for the cover…
For centuries, Joan of Arc has been used for political purposes, and that makes sense. Born in 1412, in the middle of the Hundred Years' War, Joan saw her country overrun"fields scorched, ca…
The singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles has one of those silvery voices that can bring intimacy to a large stage. Born in Eureka, California, Bareilles played in bars in Los Angeles before brea…
A new musical opened on Broadway last week, "Come from Away," about Gander, a small town in Newfoundland that rallied to care for some seven thousand travellers stuck there after their plane…
Heavy lies the crown of commercial success. Sometime before the release of his 2016 album, "Views," Drake, the outsider rapper turned pop virtuoso, grew too dominant for his own good. On his…
There was much talk recently about the evening that Justin Trudeau and Ivanka Trump spent side by side, sitting together at the Schoenfeld Theatre to watch the Canadian musical "Come from Aw…
The town of Gander, Newfoundland, has six traffic lights and a population of less than thirteen thousand. Snowmobiling is popular, and people leave their car doors unlocked while they're at …
Fresh off Ryan Murphy's "Feud" comes another diva smackdown: a new musical about the rivalry between Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, who ran competing cosmetics empires. Though they n…
Arthur Miller's "The Price" (in revival at the American Airlines, under the direction of Terry Kinney) premièred on Broadway in 1968, four years after Miller's other mid-career plays "After…
The critic's profession may be destined to fade away, but others will have to take up this simple, irritating, somehow necessary job.
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Five actors gathered in a room on Lafayette Street, in downtown Manhattan, to start rehearsing a new work for the Public Theatre, "Joan of Arc: Into the Fire." Written by David Byrne, former…
Since the film "Groundhog Day" came out, in 1993, it's been claimed by existentialists, Buddhists, political theorists, and comedy nerds alike. The story has become a modern parable: a morda…
Not long after "La La Land" was announced Best Picture at the eighty-ninth annual Academy Awards"after which "Moonlight" was announced Best Picture at the eighty-ninth annual Academy Awards,…
Well, you certainly don't go out anyplace less than dressed, not these days. Can't let anybody mistake you for that broken, misused little girl: Eleanora Fagan. No. Let there be no confusion…
"I'm the king of the world! Whooooo!" That line is not, in fact, from President Trump's Inaugural Address but from James Cameron's infamous speech at the 1998 Academy Awards, when he won the…
The musician Mica Levi has observed that in the world of film music, there are two schools of thought. "Some people see it as about doing something new and different, something very 'felt,'�…
Lisa Henson and Emma Walton Hamilton met only recently, but they have something rare in common: each has a parent who likely held a deep, enchanted place in your childhood. Henson, who is fi…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences occupies a squat nineteen-seventies building on Wilshire Boulevard, surrounded by car dealerships. On January 14th of last year, Cheryl Boone …
