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Stage: The Royal Family
feature George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s 1927 spoof of Lionel, John, Ethel, and the rest of the Barrymore clan retains its original charm.
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Stage: Sammy
feature The bio-musical of Sammy Davis Jr. was written by Leslie Bricusse, who wrote such memorable Davis hits as “Who Can I Turn To?” and “The Candy Man.”
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Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
feature “What’s so refreshing” about the Whitney’s exhibition is that it “spares us O’Keeffe the Earth Mother,” said Richard Lacayo in Time. <
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Exhibit of the week: Fred Tomaselli
feature Many of Tomaselli's works of the past 20 years are on display in a retrospective at the Aspen Art Museum.
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Stage: American Idiot
feature American Idiot is adapted from Green Day's multiplatinum 2004 album.
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Stage: The Pride of Parnell Street
feature The Pride of Parnell Street is a wistful tale of a marriage torn apart by “domestic violence, drug addiction, and AIDS,” said Frank Scheck in the New York Post.&
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Exhibit of the week: Kandinsky
feature The Guggenheim Museum's retrospective of the work Wassily Kandinsky is the first in almost 25 years.
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Body in Fragments
feature The Menil Collection’s new exhibition is full of artworks that feature fragmented body parts, from sections of Roman sculpture, to a 15th-century finger reliquary, to René Magritte’s portraits.
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Theater: Eclipsed
feature Before writing Eclipsed, Danai Gurira spent time in Liberia gathering information from interviews with former kept women and female soldiers.
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Opera: Tosca
feature The Metropolitan Opera broke with tradition and replaced the much beloved Zeffirelli version of Tosca with a new one by Swiss director Luc Bondy.
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Theater: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
feature The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is the only play I’ve ever seen that could appeal to wrestling fans and theatergoers alike, said Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune.
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Theater: Hamlet
feature In director Michael Grandage’s modern-dress production, Jude Law is Hamlet and his “To be or not to be …” soliloquy is delivered beneath a light snowfall.
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Exhibit of the week: Warhol
feature The Milwaukee Art Museum’s new exhibition introduces the paintings of Andy Warhol's later years, works that were rarely shown during his lifetime.
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore
feature Wilson Milam, who has directed every incarnation of Martin McDonagh's masterful Inishmore since its debut, keeps sharpening its already razor-sharp edges.
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