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Why Can't Art Be Instructive?

Carla Seaquist | Posted 03.16.2012

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Carla Seaquist

Why can't Art instruct? In addition to providing entertainment, consolation, beauty, and a reflection of our humanity by holding "the mirror up to nature," why can't Art also teach us a thing or two?

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First Nighter: Is A Minister's Wife the Musical's Tepid Future?

David Finkle | Posted 07.21.2011

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David Finkle

This observer believes the musicalized version of George Bernard Shaw is not only a sorrowful entertainment, but indicative of a much larger concern about how the musical, as a genre, is evolving.

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Muti's Otello and War Horse

Howard Kissel | Posted 06.18.2011

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Howard Kissel

Othello and War Horse are both works on a monumental scale. On these evenings I was reminded of why I chose to spend my life sitting in darkened theaters.

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CultureZohn: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patricia Zohn

2010-11-05-women.jpgThough this production is Sher's handiwork, he has been exceedingly faithful to the film, both in its frothy style, a hybrid of stage and film, and its spirit.

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Michael Brunner: 'South Pacific' Lincoln Center Stage Manager Fired For Making Video Of Star Undressing

nypost.com | Jamie Schram | Posted 05.25.2011

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A married Lincoln Center stage manager busted for making a spy video of an actress changing had wanted to go out with her even though he had been rebu...

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Lincoln Center Theater Cares

Charles Warner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Charles Warner

This is a good Monday. I'm sitting at my computer listening to the new Norah Jones album I downloaded, I got my appointment letter for teaching at NY...

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Change You Can Dance To: Obama Music Videos

Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 05.25.2011

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Elizabeth Rigby

Change That You Can Dance To captures a diverse cross-section of about 20 of the tens-of-thousands Obama-themed music videos created by people across the U.S. and the world during the campaign.

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Confessions of a South Pacific groupie?

Abigail Pogrebin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Abigail Pogrebin

Beneath my New York armor, I'm as corny as Kansas; The recent revival of South Pacific reminded me of all the lovers kept apart by this endless war and how atypical it is to love blatantly, putting devotion ahead of all else.

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