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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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'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.
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