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2,426 stories from The Wall Street Journal

Brahms, Brits, Political Opera and a New Music Marathon

A roundup of the week's classical music performances.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:01am on January 27, 2014

Naughton Opens Lincoln Center's 'Songbook' With Newman Program

The actor and singer James Naughton opens Lincoln Center's "American Songbook" series on Tuesday with Randy Newman selections.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:50pm on January 26, 2014

New York Nonprofit Expands, Goes National

America Needs You celebrated its launch last week. The organization aims to build on the New York Needs You's success helping first-generation college students in New York and New Jersey.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:49pm on January 26, 2014

The Eye Has It: Seeing Dancers in a New Light

Life-size images of New York City Ballet dancers are lounging in a photographic mural affixed to a lobby floor of the David H. Koch Theater.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 9:47pm on January 26, 2014

A 'Devotion' to Dance

Choreographer Sarah Michelson presents the end of series looking into dedication of performers.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:29pm on January 24, 2014

Debra Messing (aka 'Grace') Takes On an Irish Farm-Girl Role

She's appearing in John Patrick Shanley's new play, "Outside Mullingar," on Broadway.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:17am on January 24, 2014

Peyton, Russell and Renée: Opera Star Fleming to Sing at Super Bowl

The Feb. 2 singing of the national anthem will mark the first time an opera singer has been included in the game.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:38pm on January 23, 2014

From Fosse to a History of Funk

A survey of great movie musicals, an ongoing revival of classic and underground music documentaries, and more in this week's Repertory Film.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:50pm on January 22, 2014

New Funders May Bring 'Rebecca' to Broadway

'Rebecca: The Musical' may be opening at the end of the year, thanks to an infusion of cash from three new investors that brings its total capitalization to $10 million.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:33pm on January 21, 2014

Miss Piggy, Ali MacGraw and Baz Luhrmann on Love

WSJ. asks six luminaries to weigh in on the topic of love.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:26pm on January 21, 2014

The Original 'Dolly' Is Back on Stage, Where She Belongs

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of "Hello, Dolly!" and the coming 93rd birthday of Carol Channing, who starred in the original Broadway production, Justin Vivian Bond will host an intimate…

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:49pm on January 16, 2014

Need-to-Know Basis

When a critic reviews an adaptation, how familiar does he need to be of the original work?

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:40pm on January 16, 2014

King Lear: Not Bad. Not Great

Frank Langella finds his footing in a decent production of "King Lear" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:22pm on January 16, 2014

Mainstream Dreams for Jewish Rockers

South Brooklyn rock band the Shondes has just joined one of the country's buzziest bands for a national tour. But can a musical act whose name means "shame" or "disgrace" in Yiddish break in…

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:18pm on January 14, 2014

What Brought Her Here

Rebecca Hall has been a star of the big and small screen, of art-house films and blockbuster fare. She's also no stranger to the London stage. Now she's set to make her Broadway debut in Sop…

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 9:20pm on January 14, 2014

How Romans Ruled the Globe

Despite the famous gibe about his "small Latin and less Greek," contemporaries saw the "sweet witty soul of Ovid" in Shakespeare. Mark Archer reviews Colin Burrow's "Shakespeare and Classica…

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 8:52pm on January 14, 2014

For Taymor, 'Spider-Man' Won't Stick

The specter of a certain troublesome teenage web slinger may finally be gone for director Julie Taymor, who is shooting a film version of her acclaimed production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dre…

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 9:28am on January 14, 2014

Dinner Parties and Animal Mating Rituals

'Dinner with Friends,' Isabella Rossellini's 'Green Porno,''The Bridges of Madison County' and more in this week's On Stage.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:51pm on January 13, 2014

Muppets Take the Heights

Lin-Manuel Miranda chose 'The Muppets Take Manhattan' as the first of his New York-centric selections in a series that will feature one movie a month through June at the United Palace of Cul…

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:38pm on January 13, 2014

For Taymor, 'Spider-Man' Won't Stick

The specter of a certain troublesome teenage web slinger may finally be gone for Julie Taymor,

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 9:36pm on January 13, 2014

Pinstripes and Playbills: Play Pays Homage to the Yankees

Real-life husband and wife Peter Scolari and Tracy Shayne play Yogi and Carmen Berra in "Bronx Bombers," a show that pays homage to Yankees history.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 12:23am on January 13, 2014

A Charmed Life for Disney's 'Frozen'

The success of animated musical "Frozen" caps a renaissance for Disney Animation Studios, which struggled for most of the 2000s.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 11:40pm on January 12, 2014

Vintage 'Lace'

In an age when there's always a roomful of pretty-looking cops on TV peering earnestly into a cadaver, Florida Repertory Theatre still manages to make "Arsenic and Old Lace" very, very funny.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:35pm on January 9, 2014

Radar Love at the Public Theater

The stage lights are back on at the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, returning this year for its 10th edition in New York City.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:23pm on January 9, 2014

Poet, Playwright Long Sparked Outrage

Amiri Baraka, a radicalized Beat poet and playwright whose work could both inspire and inflame, embodied the artistic face of the Black Power movement of the 1960s. He died at age 79.

SOURCE: The Wall Street Journal Subscription at 10:20pm on January 9, 2014
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