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Review: Aaron Copland as a hinge
Times have certainly changed in Brooklyn. Streets unsafe last decade now bustle invitingly. Composers born in the borough last century couldn't get away fast enough. Composers from all over now can't move there fast enough. Thursday night at Walt Disney...
Tags: Culture, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Brooklyn (New York City)
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Cyndi Lauper struts onto Broadway with 'Kinky Boots'
NEW YORK — Cyndi Lauper, garlanded in enough jewelry to make the Queen of Sheba jealous, is wondering if she should add yet another bauble. "It's a whatchamacallit, like a Sicilian good luck charm. Whaddya think?" she asks a coterie of...
Tags: David Thornton, Broadway Theater, Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Theater
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It's all smiles at Cafe Grumpy
NEW YORK — Until last year, CafĂ© Grumpy in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, was mostly known as a destination for the serious coffee drinker, the type of place where each modestly sized cup is individually brewed and goes for $4 a pop. Now, thanks to "Girls,...
Tags: Girls (tv program), Broadway Theater, Greenpoint, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Restaurants
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Tony Awards 2013: Ceremony returning to Radio City Music Hall
After two consecutive years at the Beacon Theatre on New York's Upper West Side, the Tony Awards ceremony will return to the more spacious Radio City Music Hall this year. Organizers of Broadway's biggest night announced Monday that the annual awards...
Tags: Clybourne Park (play), Culture, Awards and Prizes, Broadway Theater, Radio City Music Hall
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Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis meet. Discuss
"If the whole universe had no meaning," C.S. Lewis once wrote, "we should never have found out that it had no meaning." Pithy observations like that — rooted in logical argument — have made the writer one Christian whom many agnostics and...
Tags: Sigmund Freud, Nazi Party, Health and Medical Professionals, Off-Broadway Theater, Religion and Belief
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Charles Rosen dies at 85; pianist wrote 'The Classical Style'
Charles Rosen, the renowned pianist and prolific writer whose award-winning book "The Classical Style" has been read by music students around the world, has died. He was 85. The New York-born musician had been suffering from cancer and died Sunday...
Tags: Harvard University, Culture, Authors, Human Interest, Prostate Cancer
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Critic's Notebook: Gustavo Dudamel wraps up an ambitious year
NEW YORK — The hair jokes may have grown old, what with a slight fleck of gray peeking through his now shortened and tamed curls. The Dude nickname is pretty much over as well. And no longer is Gustavo Dudamel as tempted to head for Pink's hot dog...
Tags: Television, Paris (France), International Travel, Milan (Italy), Vienna (Austria)
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Nanny, in hospital bed, pleads not guilty to murder of 2 children
NEW YORK -- A nanny accused of stabbing to death two young children left in her care pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder Wednesday from a hospital bed, where she has been held since trying to commit suicide by slashing her own throat and wrists....
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, WikiLeaks, Murder, Trials, Central Park
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KAWS is latest artist to join Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
This year's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade featured the usual gallery of cartoon characters inflated to monstrous sizes bobbing alongside garish floats. But the parade also featured a bit of cultural subversion -- albeit of the family-friendly variety --...
Tags: Thanksgiving, Fine Artists, Cartoons, Arts, Holidays
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Review: 'Seminar' is a sharp look at writing classes
Masochism is the chief prerequisite for a private writing seminar with Leonard, the fearsome teacher, writer and editor conducting a mini reign of terror in Theresa Rebeck's Broadway comedy "Seminar," now at the Ahmanson Theatre. Played by Jeff...
Tags: Talk Shows (genre), Alan Rickman, Authors, Jeff Goldblum, Arts and Culture
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'Hairspray' stage musical writer Mark O'Donnell dies at 58
Mark O'Donnell, a stage and comedy writer who won a Tony Award for his musical adaptation of the John Waters movie "Hairspray," has died at 58. He collapsed Monday in the lobby of his apartment building on New York's Upper West Side, according to the...
Tags: Politics, Obituaries, Broadway Theater, Theater, Bill Irwin
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PASSINGS: Mark O'Donnell, John Phelan, Jimmy Jones, Paul W. McCracken
Mark O'Donnell Tony-winning co-writer of 'Hairspray' Mark O'Donnell, 58, the Tony Award-winning writer behind such quirky and clever Broadway shows as "Hairspray and "Cry-Baby," died Monday in New York. His agent, Jack Tantleff, said the writer...
Tags: Politics, Harvard University, Religion and Belief, Authors, James Taylor
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