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Trump Has Yet to Award the National Arts Medals for 2016

Other presidents have dawdled, too, but President Trump is the first to go this long without awarding national medals in the arts and humanities.

 

Critic’s Notebook: The Trouble With Bernstein’s Broadway in the Concert Hall

Recent concert stagings of “West Side Story” and “On the Town” show the pitfalls — and solutions — for symphonic performances of these musicals.

 

Brantley in Britain: Review: ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Is a Transfixing Epic of Riches and Ruin

In the National Theater’s adaptation of Stefano Massini’s play, three wondrous actors become multitudes.

 

This Week in Arts: ‘Spike Jonze Is a Dancer,’ Robin Williams

The Dance on Camera Festival comes to Lincoln Center, and the Robin Williams documentary debuts on HBO.

 

I Love Performing Those Songs. But What About the Gender Politics?

Melissa Errico, who is currently starring in “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” reflects on problematic female characters of Broadway’s golden age.

 

In Conservative Munich, a Theater Turns Radical and Defends Refugees

Two plays at one of the city’s most important theaters make the case for accepting displaced people, as politics there is turning against them.

 

Review: ‘Mary Page Marlowe’ Lives an Ordinary, Extraordinary Life

In Tracy Letts’s gripping play, it takes six actors (and a doll) to embody one steely, difficult woman, from infancy to the age of 69.

 

Pulitzer-Winning Play ‘Cost of Living’ Will Become a Musical

Martyna Majok’s intense drama will get a musical adaptation from Michael John LaChiusa, the Williamstown Theater Festival announced.

 

New ‘West Side Story’ From Ivo van Hove and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

The experimental director and avant-garde choreographer’s production — the first in the U.S. not to be based on Jerome Robbins’s choreography — will come to Broadway.

 

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