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Part of my job as the director of The New Yorker Festival is keeping a short list in my back pocket of dream "gets": those singular men and women I long to include in our annual Festival pro…
If you live in New York City long enough and appear to be successfully employed in an industry that Bernie Sanders dislikes, you will be asked at some point to do three things: sponsor a tab…
The photographer Brian Rose was in Amsterdam on September 11, 2001, when he learned, over the phone, that a plane had just flown into one of the Twin Towers. Rose, who had gone to college in…
In the future, when we look back on this first Wednesday of September, we might be bewildered that one of the biggest news stories of the day was Apple's announcement that iPhones will no lo…
On a Friday night in June at Joe's Pub, at the Public Theatre, as the writer and performer Isaac Oliver's show began, an announcement came over the P.A. system: "Isaac Oliver will be perform…
"What, lost in the labyrinth of thy fury?" The question, which might be asked of a host of current political actors, is posed by a character almost three thousand years old; Thersites, one o…
Several years ago, during a routine game of Trivial Pursuit, I was asked who had written the book on which the musical "Cats" is based. I reached for the dice to roll again before I fi…
Most theatregoers I know have an almost physical aversion to audience participation. That's probably because audience members are often cast in the role of patsy"set up to look awkward, outs…
CLEVELAND (The Borowitz Report)"The 2016 Republican National Convention became embroiled in another controversy on Tuesday, as Biblical experts accused Republicans of plagiarizing the entire…
Michael Crawford was a cartoonist and a painter, a wry and sensitive artist who woke each day with his head full of dreams. Straight from bed he reached for his pencils and pad, the better t…
Derrick Hamilton never went to law school, but prisoners across New York State have heard about his formidable legal skills, which he acquired while he was wrongly imprisoned for murder for …
Ask any young female ballet dancer what role she'd most like to dance one day, and the answer is almost always the same: Juliet. "Swan Lake" may be the Mount Everest of the profession, but "…
Two weeks ago, members of the Lebanese indie-pop band Mashrou' Leila took the stage in front of a packed crowd at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, wearing a flamboyant yet minimal uniform of …
Making video operas you could watch on your phone occurred to Jason Cady, Aaron Siegel, and Matthew Welch a few years ago in a bar in Brooklyn, at a meeting of Experiments in Opera, the comp…
Not many verbal artifacts are cooler than the first edition of James Joyce's "Ulysses," which was published, in Paris, on February 2, 1922, the author's fortieth birthday. As is standard for…
"And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love," Lin-Manuel Miranda said in his moving acceptance sonnet at Sunday night’s Tony Awards ceremony"which …
For more than a year now, any half-conscious prognosticator could have told you that the 2016 Antoinette Perry Awards would unofficially be the "Hamilton" Tonys. Mostly, it was. Nominated fo…
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With the confrontation between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton working its way toward its latest incarnation, what with Lin-Manuel Miranda (as Hamilton) and Leslie Odom, Jr. (as Burr), fac…
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The Metropolitan Opera last named a new music director in May of 1975. Gerald Ford had been President for less than a year; Saigon had fallen a few weeks earlier; Barack Obama was thirteen. …
On a recent Saturday morning at the Pearl Studios, on Eighth Avenue, the most labyrinthine of all Broadway rehearsal halls, one of the most beautiful and endangered of all New York sounds su…
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While it's always a treat to see amazing ensembles working together as they tear a play apart, the better to expose its meaning, it's thrilling in a different way to watch performers who sta…
On a sunny day in April, I visited the offices of the Sesame Workshop, across the street from Lincoln Center. At first, the space looks almost disappointingly normal, until you notice the he…
