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Sports
Baseball Video Game Will Include Women for the First Time
MLB The Show 24 will feature a career mode that allows gamers to create a female player and steer her…
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World
Paper Bag Players Celebrate 65 Years of Making Magic Out of the Ordinary
The children’s theater company will bring its latest production, “It’s a Marvelous Paper Bag World!,” to stages in New York…
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Obituaries
René Pollesch, Provocative Force in German Theater, Dies at 61
His avant-garde work, short on character and plot but long on verbal high jinks, could be irreverent, even goofy, but…
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World
John Patrick Shanley Reflects on His Accidental Retrospective
The playwright discusses the Broadway revival of “Doubt” and his latest, “Brooklyn Laundry.” “People are disagreeing violently with themselves,” he…
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Obituaries
Jimmy Van Eaton, Purveyor of the Sun Records Beat, Dies at 86
His drumming lent spontaneity and imagination to the unfettered sound of seminal rock ’n’ roll records by Jerry Lee Lewis…
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World
Why So Many Kids Are Priced Out of Youth Sports
Ever since my 2022 interview with Linda Flanagan, the author of “Take Back the Game,” about how money is ruining…
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World
‘Munich Medea: Happy Family’ Review: A Friendship Crushed by the Past
Themes of incest and sexual abuse of minors loom large in this strikingly becalmed play named after a legendarily vengeful…
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World
Listening to Music Is Better When It’s a Conversation Among Friends
At group listening sessions, everybody gets a turn to speak by choosing a song.
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World
When the Voice You Hear Is Not the Actor You See
The playwright Lucas Hnath has been making magic with the sound of speech. Now he’s directing a play by Mona…
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World
Filming ‘Virginia Woolf,’ the Battles Weren’t Just Onscreen
COCKTAILS WITH GEORGE AND MARTHA: Movies, Marriage and the Making of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ by Philip Gefter What…