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Hope for a Brighter Future on a Darker Broadway
Hope for a Brighter Future on a Darker Broadway
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The cast of the musical “Hairspray” taking a bow at the Neil Simon Theater. The show was among nine Broadway productions that closed on Sunday night.

There is a sense of heavy reckoning on Broadway after nine productions closed on Sunday night.

Books of The Times
'Lark and Termite'

Jayne Anne Phillips’s intricate, deeply felt new novel fuses wildly disparate influences into something incandescent and utterly original.

Television Review
Protecting Borders and Other (Not Necessarily) Hot Pursuits

“Homeland Security USA,” an ABC reality series about the men and women who police our borders, is more homage than reportage.

Polanski Requests New Setting for Hearing

Lawyers for Roman Polanski asked on Monday that his case be moved from a Los Angeles justice system that they say is too seriously tainted by its own misdeeds.

Dance
Ailey Wraps Up Season With Sampler of Classics and Newcomers

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater closed its 50th-anniversary season at City Center on Sunday night with a program of the season’s highlights.

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New DVDs: Michael Powell

“The Films of Michael Powell” brings a pair of impeccably restored movies by this pre-eminent British director.

Art Review
Not in the Name of Love: Allegorical Imagery for Newlyweds

“The Triumph of Marriage,” a beautiful, compact show at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, displays 15 panels from Renaissance marriage chests.

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Video: UrbanEye

Melena Ryzik reports from (and dresses for) a white party benefiting GMHC, an AIDS organization.

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Abroad

Michael Kimmelman on culture and society in Europe and beyond.

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