Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History
Two years after debate over Woodrow Wilson rocked campus, the Princeton and Slavery Project is unveiling new research into the university’s uncomfortable past
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CreditShane Lavalette for The New York Times The World Really Is a Stage, Scripts and All, to Actor With Autism
Mickey Rowe is thought to be the first openly autistic actor to play Christopher, a 15-year-old with autism, in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
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CreditKurt Weill Foundation for Music Hear a Newly Found Kurt Weill Song That Surprised Experts
“Lied vom weissen Käse” (“Song of the White Cheese”), which Weill wrote for a musical revue in 1931, was recently discovered in a Berlin archive.
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Credit Putting the Ghosts of Princeton’s Racial Past Onstage
Four of the contributors to the Princeton and Slavery Plays project talk about the hidden histories that inspired them.
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CreditAndrea Mohin/The New York Times Review: Bending It Like Bharatanatyam
Preeti Vasudevan’s “Stories by Hand” was an hour of talking and dancing, informed by — but not beholden to — classical Indian dance
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CreditJonathan Slaff Review: ‘Lee Harvey Oswald,’ an American Assassin in Puppet Form
The latest ambitious effort by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater is both highly detailed and hard to follow.
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CreditChris Large/USA Network Review: ‘Damnation’ and the Sick Soul of 1930s America
A new series on the USA Network dramatizes a Depression-era farmers’ rebellion in lurid and violent terms.
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CreditBettmann Archive, via CorbisPhoto Chopin’s Heart, Pickled in a Jar, Offers Clues to His Death
The heart of the Polish composer, preserved for nearly 170 years, was examined by scientists who say he most likely died of tuberculosis.
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CreditAndrew Kelly/Reuters ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Will Head Back to Broadway With Kelli O’Hara
The production will be directed by Scott Ellis (“She Loves Me”) and will begin performances in February 2019, the Roundabout Theater Company said.
