SYDNEY, Australia — The lights were dimmed, the crowd was masked, and plexiglass divided the orchestra. Jemma Rix, draped in royal blue and holding a…
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Broadway Is Dark. London Is Quiet. But in Australia, It’s Showtime.
SYDNEY, Australia — The lights were dimmed, the crowd was masked, and plexiglass divided the orchestra. Jemma Rix, draped in royal blue and holding a…
View More Broadway Is Dark. London Is Quiet. But in Australia, It’s Showtime.
Second February Snowfall Blankets New York
Weather: Mostly sunny and very chilly. High around 30. Alternate-side parking: Suspended through Friday for snow removal, Lunar New Year’s Eve and Lincoln’s Birthday. On…
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Christopher Plummer, Actor From Shakespeare to ‘The Sound of Music,’ Dies at 91
He played Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard III, Mark Antony and others of Shakespeare’s towering protagonists on prominent stages to consistent acclaim, and he starred in “Hamlet…
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Federal Aid for Closed Cultural Venues Will Be a Race for Cash
An aide to Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican and one of the proposal’s sponsors, said Mr. Cornyn had told the Small Business Administration about…
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Behind Closed Doors, Paris Theaters Carry On
PARIS — Call it the French spirit of resistance — or contrariness. Officially, theaters here are shut, because of a new wave of coronavirus infections.…
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‘Ratatouille,’ the Musical: How This TikTok Creation Came Together
Beginning in October, thousands of TikTok creators who were bored at home and missing Broadway created elements of a show that didn’t exist yet: a…
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A ‘Frankenstein’ That Never Lived
Playing the parts The show’s human stars included John Carradine, in what would be his last stage role, as the blind beggar. GIALANELLA Carradine had…
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Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues
For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that congressional…
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Scrooge on a Screen Just Can’t Be the Same
For me the ritual of “A Christmas Carol” has never been about screen adaptations, or even about Dickens’s original story, which he wrote in 1843…
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