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‘Evita’ at the Academy of Music

Eva Perón upstaged

Evita concerns a struggle for power. This time around, the balance in that struggle is skewed against the leading lady.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

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James Joyce with Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare & Co., Paris, 1920.

Kevin Birmingham and Maya Lang at the Free Library

Celebrating Bloomsday and all things 'Ulysses'

Two authors and the most conflicted fans in literature celebrate James Joyce's Ulysses.

John Simons

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White (left), Ashe, Malouf: 'In Pakistan, you would be killed!'

Akhtar’s ‘The Who and the What’ in New York

Where angels fear to tread

Ayad Akhtar has already distinguished himself as a dramatist with the courage to tackle Islamic assimilation in Western society. In The Who and the What, he breaks new controversial ground, focusing on the intimate issues of Islamic women in contemporary America.

Carol Rocamora

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A strange partnership: Eva Green and Timothy Dalton in "Penny Dreadful"

'Penny Dreadful' goes back to horror’s roots

Horror is the new black

Penny Dreadful features a rogue’s gallery of Victorian favorites, but this is no retread of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Paula Berman

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Tiffany was perfectly satisfied with this window at Wade Memorial Chapel in Cleveland. (Photo by Jon Dawson via Flickr/Creative Commons)

A James Garfield themed road trip

Monuments and landscapes

Cleveland was the main stop — but not the only stop — on this art-lover's road trip.
Joanna Rotté

Joanna Rotté

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Unfortunately, the signposts aren't always clear in dealing with the elderly. (Photo by The_Other_Dan, via Flickr/Creative Commons)

Linda Brendle's 'Long and Winding Road'

When reality is more inspiring than "reality"

Everyone seems to write a memoir these days, and the authors are often famous entertainers or the survivors of a well-publicized crisis. Linda Brendle is an “ordinary” person, which is part of the reason her book resonates so deeply.
Maria Thompson Corley

Maria Thompson Corley

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Johnson (left), Hara, Crandle: With a little help from magnets. (Photo: Mark Garvin.)

Arden Theatre’s ‘The Cat in the Hat’

Dr. Seuss would have loved this

Dr. Seuss was an educational radical who sought to find ways to get kids excited about reading. The Arden’s recent stage adaptation went a step further: Here actions speak louder than words.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

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Thomas Hirschhorn, Gramsci Monument, 2013. (Photo by Andrew Russeth, via Flickr/Creative Commons.)

Thomas Hirschhorn's Gramsci Monument in the Bronx

In search of a peripheral audience

The Forest Homes residents are not Hirschhorn’s audience but elements in the installation in the Bronx.
Treacy Ziegler

Treacy Ziegler

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Bill Watterson, J. D. Salinger, and the reclusive life

Tigers and teens can be troublesome assets

Are writers like J. D. Salinger and Bill Watterson behaving like recluses and introverts when they avoid public exposure?
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

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Saul Williams as John and Saycon Sengbloh as Corinne in "Holler If Ya Hear Me." (Photo by Joan Marcus, © Broadway.com)

'Holler If Ya Hear Me' on Broadway

The mythologization of Tupac Shakur

Holler If Ya Hear Me brings together two types of Broadway musical: the jukebox musical and the poeticization of inner-city life.

Carol Rocamora

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