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The Past as a Grab Bag of Curiosities
Brian Springer’s bizarre documentary “The Disappointment: Or, the Force of Credulity” is, among many things, a treatise on how history is passed along.

A Formidable Legacy and a Heavy Heart
What happens when idealism becomes power? That question is the driving force of Jeremy Kagan’s inert yet strangely compelling film “Golda’s Balcony.”

Handling Ravel’s Mercurial Moods
Programs devoted to a single composer can be limiting, but when the composer is Ravel, you can learn a lot about an ensemble from the way it bends to the constantly shifting timbres and ...

Haunting Songs of Heartbreak, Done by a Man With Experience
Where “Control” might have been literal-minded and sentimental, it is instead enigmatic and moving, much in the manner of Joy Division’s best songs.

An Artist’s Grant That Even Pays for Glasses
Many of the artists who won a $50,000 fellowship last year from United States Artists used at least part of the funds left after taxes simply to make ends meet.

Foretelling a Flamboyant Future, but Rooted in Operatic Tradition
This impregnable Puccini potboiler, dressed up in Anthony Minghella’s gorgeous pageantlike production, returned to the house on Monday.

Going the Way of All Flesh, Artistically
It’s coming up roses on the Chelsea real estate front, but at certain addresses death hangs in the air. Or, more accurately, on the walls. Two galleries, by coincidence, are ...

Examining the Circumstances of an Actress’s Fatal Fall
Echoes of Marilyn Monroe give “The Rise of Dorothy Hale” an extra layer of interest, which is a good thing, since the play itself has uneven patches and performances.

Three Crowns Sharing One Apartment
“Pageant Place,” which begins tonight at 10:30 on MTV, is the show that ran with Donald Trump’s idea. The eight-part series hopes to give viewers a multidimensional ...

Game Maker Joins Forces With Energy Company
Electronic Arts, the No. 1 video game publisher, plans to announce today that it has collaborated with BP, the energy company, in developing the latest installment of the hit SimCity ...

The Justice Looks Back and Settles Old Scores
The Jehovah-like Daddy dominates the early chapters of “My Grandfather’s Son,” Justice Thomas’s selectively revealing, often harshly self-critical memoir.

For Soviet-Era Architecture, a White Russian Knight Emerges
Today, the Melnikov House not only survives but seems destined to become a museum. And that is mostly, if not all, due to Sergey Gordeev, who has emerged as a white-knight protector of ...

Big Screen Embraces Hot Muse: Rock Stars
There seem to be enough current and planned movie projects about musicians to fill a jukebox.

‘The Desert Has Lost Its Favorite Rose’: Death Comes to the Whiskers Family
There are no simple, intuitive turns on the long road out of bereavement. We know this from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. We know this from Joan Didion. We know this from the fans of ...

Broadway Negotiations at a Standstill
The League of American Theaters and Producers made what it called its final offer to the stagehands’ union.

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