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• Sidelined, but Not Forgotten

  15-02-2018 23:35 via nytimes.com
  In the 1930s and '40s, great black actors like Theresa Harris and Clarence Muse were often marginalized in servile Hollywood roles. But the artistry of their performances still stood out.
  
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• Nashville Recap: Long Strange Trip

  15-02-2018 23:23 via feedproxy.google.com
  Nice rebound for Nashville this week. Don’t get me wrong, the show didn’t actually make any “sense” or resemble the “world as we know it,” but at least it was hella fun, which is a lot more than I can say for last week’s dud.I kind of want to begin...More »
  
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• Baz Luhrmann on Figure Skating’s Love Affair With Moulin Rouge!

  15-02-2018 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  At this year’s Winter Olympic Games, all figure skaters have been given the opportunity to perform to songs with lyrics for the first time ever, and though this new development has opened the door to an endless range of musical choices, from Beyoncé to, uh, Disturbed, one group of songs...More »
  
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• My Wonderful Life review – touching and moving memorials from those about to die

  15-02-2018 23:00
  The four-part series at times feels intrusive but offers its subjects the opportunity to say goodbye to loved ones. Plus: whip-smart comedy from The Young OffendersLast year, BBC2 aired Sue Bourne’s wonderful and affecting documentary A Time To Live, which followed several people who were living with the knowledge that they would die sooner than they had expected to. It was honest, charming and funny, and maintained a grip long after it was over. I have often thought about its perfect endi
  
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• Britannia recap – series one, episode five

  15-02-2018 23:00
  Kerra has to decide whether she wants to wear the crown, Queen Antedia wants her head and Aulus has learned a few tricks on his trip to the underworldThe general is, according to Divis, not a man but something “far, far stronger” indicating his underworld jaunt inferred upon him godlike powers, hence his cock-of-the-walk manner. Kerra is letting news of her imminent coronation sink in but can’t help thinking she’d rather be pecked to death by crows than wear the crown. Wi
  
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• 4 Film Series to Catch in NYC This Weekend

  15-02-2018 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Our guide to film series and special screenings happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
  
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• 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend

  15-02-2018 23:00 via nytimes.com
  Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.
  
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• Who Knew Watching Kendrick Lamar Rap in a Palm Tree Could Be So Fun

  15-02-2018 22:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Leave it to the multitalented TDE power player Dave Free to direct what is possibly the most fun Kendrick Lamar video to appear in a while. If you’ve ever wanted to see Kendrick Lamar eat elote in a palm tree, and then also see fellow TDE artist Jay Rock rap...More »
  
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• Jeff Daniels to Explain Things in Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway

  15-02-2018 22:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Newsroom lives, in that Jeff Daniels and Aaron Sorkin are working together again, and pretty much no other ways. Daniels will star as Atticus Finch in Sorkin’s upcoming stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, which is coming to Broadway this fall. The cast also includes Celia Keenan-Bolger (Scout),...More »
  
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• Let’s Talk About the Twisty, Shocking End of Babylon Berlin

  15-02-2018 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’ve seen the German series Babylon Berlin, which debuted on Netflix last month, you know that the final two episodes are a wild, completely unpredictable journey. The show is a massive urban adventure set in late-1920s Berlin, full of so many twists and reversals that by the time you get...More »
  
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• Where Is Kyra? Trailer: Michelle Pfeiffer Will Devastate You

  15-02-2018 21:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  When Michelle Pfeiffer gets into a fight onscreen and her voice starts to tremble and break, is there a sound more withering? It looks like there will be plenty of chances to consider that question in Where Is Kyra? The movie premiered at Sundance, and stars Pfeiffer as the titular...More »
  
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• Jeffrey Tambor Officially Cut From Transparent After Investigation Into Harassment Claims

  15-02-2018 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Amazon has officially cut Jeffrey Tambor from Transparent after an investigation into sexual-harassment claims against the actor. Per Deadline, Amazon has said Tambor will not return for the upcoming fifth season of the show, in which he played the lead character Maura. Trans actresses Van Barnes and Trace Lysette first...More »
  
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• What Aja of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ Can’t Live Without

  15-02-2018 21:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  If you’re like us, you’ve probably wondered what famous people add to their carts. Not the JAR brooch and Louis XV chair, but the hand sanitizer and the electric toothbrush. We asked Aja, the New York City–based drag queen who’s competing in the third season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All...More »
  
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• Jeffrey Tambor: Transparent star fired over sexual harassment claims

  15-02-2018 21:50
  After an investigation, the lead star of the Amazon comedy-drama will not return for future seasonsJeffrey Tambor has been dropped from the Emmy-winning Amazon comedy-drama Transparent after sexual harassment allegations. Related: Loss leader: can a TV show continue without its main character?Continue reading...
  
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• Jeffrey Tambor fired from Transparent over sexual harassment claims

  15-02-2018 21:50
  After an investigation was concluded, the lead star of the Amazon comedy drama will not return for any future seasonsJeffrey Tambor has been dropped from Emmy-winning Amazon comedy drama Transparent after sexual harassment allegations. Related: Loss leader: can a TV show continue without its main character?Continue reading...
  
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• Hallelujah! Elton John Is Working on a Lion King Song for Beyoncé

  15-02-2018 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  You didn’t think we’d get a whole new Lion King starring Beyoncé without a new song from Queen Bey, did you? Elton John has confirmed that he’s at work on a track for Bey (who’s playing Nala) to belt over the closing credits. “They need to have a new end...More »
  
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• Everything Sucks! Most Definitely Does Not Suck

  15-02-2018 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Like Freaks and Geeks, The Goldbergs, Stranger Things, and a host of others before it, Everything Sucks!, the new Netflix series co-created by Ben York Jones and Michael Mohan, is a portrait of adolescence that revels in throwbacks. This time, the era of choice is the mid-1990s — 1996, specifically...More »
  
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• Simpler structures could mean less Relx-ing on the train

  15-02-2018 21:15 via ft.com
  Group’s move to London HQ is unlikely to put Dutch noses out of joint
  
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• Kenneth Haigh, 86, ‘Angry Young Man’ of British Stage, Dies

  15-02-2018 21:06 via nytimes.com
  A coal miner’s son, he had a long theater, film and TV career, but he was best known as the rebellious antihero in John Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger.”
  
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• Altice loses major institutional shareholder

  15-02-2018 20:58 via ft.com
  Fund manager Carmignac says November results were ‘game changer’
  
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• Grenfell activists use Three Billboards protest to highlight lack of progress

  15-02-2018 20:53
  Justice 4 Grenfell group parades billboards around London to keep tower blaze, which killed 71 people, on national conscienceCampaigners have taken inspiration from the Oscar-nominated drama Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to highlight what they say has been “a lack of progress” in the Grenfell Tower fire investigation.Members of the Justice 4 Grenfell group paraded billboards emblazoned with the words “71 dead”, “And still no arrests?”, “How C
  
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• With Irreplaceable You, Netflix Does Gugu Mbatha-Raw Dirty Again

  15-02-2018 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  I have a theory that’s probably not ready for prime time, but which I will nonetheless put on the record, in a review of an otherwise non-noteworthy romantic comedy: Netflix’s endgame has nothing to do with dominating the entertainment industry. If it did, we’d be getting the bragging numbers by...More »
  
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• Feeëriek theater bij Bonifatiuskerk in Vries - Drenthe - DVHN.nl - Dagblad van het Noorden

  15-02-2018 20:44
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  Feeëriek theater bij Bonifatiuskerk in Vries - Drenthe - DVHN.nl
  Dagblad van het Noorden
  De voorstelling Kinder van Vrees is donderdag in en rondom de Bonifatiuskerk in Vries in première gegaan. De muziek-en theatervoorstelling is geïnspireerd op de mysterieuze archeologische vondst van 153 kinderlijkjes in 1946 in de kerk. Die zijn ...en meer »
  
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• So You Know Nothing About ‘Harry Potter’? Let’s Catch You Up

  15-02-2018 20:17 via nytimes.com
  A primer of the books and films to get you ready for the Broadway opening of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two.”
  
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• Off Broadway Theater Cuts Ties With Neil LaBute

  15-02-2018 20:11 via nytimes.com
  MCC Theater, where Mr. LaBute was playwright-in-residence, did not immediately offer an explanation for terminating the relationship and canceling his next play.
  
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• Annihilation Director on Whitewashing: There Was ‘Nothing Cynical or Conspiratorial’

  15-02-2018 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  Annihilation writer and director Alex Garland has given his first response to accusations of whitewashing the lead characters in his upcoming movie. “This is an awkward problem for me, because I think whitewashing is a serious and real issue, and I fully support the groups drawing attention to it,” Garland...More »
  
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• N.B.A. Stars Get Into the Hollywood Game

  15-02-2018 19:56 via nytimes.com
  Los Angeles is suddenly crawling with basketball royalty like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Durant, who are developing TV shows, streaming offerings and movies.
  
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• Smashing Pumpkins Announce Tour and Reunion Lineup

  15-02-2018 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s finally official, the Smashing Pumpkins are going on a reunion tour … sans former bassist D’arcy Wretzky. The band announced the Shiny and Oh So Bright tour on their website and social media today, confirming their touring lineup as Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlin, and Jeff Schroeder (who...More »
  
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• Queer Eye Recap: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

  15-02-2018 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  Usually I’m pretty sad when the Fab Five roll into someone’s house. I was especially sad when they arrived at Remy’s house but for a totally different reason. I was crying real tears not because the house was so disgusting, but because I knew that Bobby was going to destroy...More »
  
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• Diefstal busje brengt theater voor verstandelijk beperkten in gevaar ... - Omroep Brabant

  15-02-2018 19:42
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  Diefstal busje brengt theater voor verstandelijk beperkten in gevaar ...
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  UDEN - "We zitten met de handen in het haar", zegt Manon van Hees, zakelijk leider van het Udense 'belevingstheater' De Lachende Zon. Aan het Keizershof in Uden werd deze week haar Mercedes Sprinter-busje gestolen en daarin lagen enkele cruciale ...en meer »
  
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• Fewer murders in Midsomer Norton | Brief letters

  15-02-2018 19:24
  Midsomer Norton | Students and crop-picking | Whitechapel fatberg | The pill | Dental careMidsomer Norton, mentioned in your review of BBC One’s drama Shetland (G2, 14 February), is in North East Somerset (Jacob Rees-Mogg’s constituency). Its murder rate is in no way comparable to that of the fictional Shetland as your review suggests. That of the fictional county of Midsomer (located notionally somewhere between Hampshire and Berkshire but filmed around Oxfordshire) – 231 in 8
  
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• Skylar Grey Can’t Stop Writing Hits

  15-02-2018 19:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  For most artists, scoring a placement in a Super Bowl commercial would incur downright giddiness, but not the Wisconsin-born songwriter Holly Brook, who has for eight years now been working under the name Skylar Grey. “[My label] Interscope has a good relationship with Budweiser,” she says of the beer giant,...More »
  
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• We Finally Know How Many Grammys Members Are Women, and Even the Recording Academy Admits ‘It’s Not Enough’

  15-02-2018 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  After weeks of backlash surrounding the Recording Academy’s attitudes about women, as poorly voiced by its president Neil Portnow, there’s finally some concrete data about the organization’s lack of diversity. As part of the task force launched in the wake of Portnow’s comments that women need to “step up” to...More »
  
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• With Carrie and Samantha’s spat, we finally get to watch the real Sex and the City 3

  15-02-2018 18:48
  What if you want to be all feminist-y, yet Sarah Jessica Parker v Kim Cattrall is the only news story you care about?Meanwhile, uptown, Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda met in the coffee shop to discuss Samantha’s latest post on Instagram. The girls all stared at Carrie’s phone, stunned. What dialogue could possibly convey the gravity of the moment?“I think my Instagram has just become InstaSCRAM,” Carrie gasped, shifting around in her Oscar de la Renta b
  
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• ‘Isle of Dogs’ to Open Berlin Film Festival. But Has it Lost Its Way?

  15-02-2018 18:21 via nytimes.com
  Wes Anderson’s new movie opens a festival that will showcase nearly 400 films. In the face of rising criticism, the event’s director says he’s focused on the audience.
  
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• Oprah Says She Is Definitely Not Running for President: ‘It’s Not in My DNA’

  15-02-2018 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  While Oprah’s inspiring speech at the Golden Globes (now on Spotify!) had many hoping, wondering, and/or worrying that she might run for president, the American icon has now made it clear that a campaign is not in the cards. In an interview on 60 Minutes Overtime, Oprah said that, while...More »
  
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• Watch the Exclusive Trailer for Chloé Zhao’s Festival Hit The Rider

  15-02-2018 17:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  Chloé Zhao is only on her second feature film, but she’s quickly become one of the most acclaimed directors working in the independent-film space: Her new movie The Rider was a major hit at the Cannes Film Festival, went on to acclaimed runs at Telluride and Sundance, and was nominated...More »
  
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• A Brief History of Wakanda, Black Panther’s Fictional Utopia

  15-02-2018 17:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sorry, Latveria. Screw you, Sokovia. 2018’s hottest fictional country is Wakanda, the African kingdom ruled by T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) in Marvel’s Black Panther. Before you go see the movie this weekend — and it sounds like a lot of you are going to see the movie this weekend — here’s...More »
  
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• Please, Please Let Sufjan Stevens Wear Gucci Wings to the Oscars

  15-02-2018 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  Here’s something to comfort you as you softly sob through Call Me by Your Name’s Sufjan Stevens songs (yes, we’re still doing that here): Sufjan Stevens will wear Gucci to the Oscars ceremony next month. After the singer/celestial being revealed that he’d never worn a tuxedo and wasn’t sure what...More »
  
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• ‘Incredibles 2’ Trailer: The Supers Are Finally Back

  15-02-2018 17:29 via nytimes.com
  Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter and Samuel L. Jackson lend their voices to the long-awaited sequel from Brad Bird, writer-director of the original 2004 hit.
  
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• Altered Carbon Recap: One Life to Live

  15-02-2018 17:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  It’s time for a heist! That’s essentially the climax of the penultimate episode of Netflix’s Altered Carbon, which features Takashi Kovacs and his buddies breaking into Head in the Clouds, the “satellite of sin” at which Reileen Kawahara is holding Kristin Ortega. In an action-packed episode we get double the...More »
  
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• Theater News: Trinity Repertory Company Set for Othello

  15-02-2018 17:00
  Performances of William Shakespeare tragedy begin tonight.
  
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• Theater News: Escape to Margaritaville Rush Policy Announced

  15-02-2018 17:00
  Cheap tickets are available to Jimmy Buffett's Broadway musical.
  
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• Theater News: Berkshire Theatre Group Announced 90th Season Lineup

  15-02-2018 17:00
  The rock musical Hair will have a summer run in Stockbridge.
  
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• Theater News: American Theatre Wing Announces 2018 Jonathan Larson Grants Recipients

  15-02-2018 17:00
  This year's recipients were selected by a panel including Patti LuPone, Kristin Marting, and Scott Sanders.
  
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• Photo Flash: First Look at Raúl Esparza, Ramin Karimloo, Ruthie Ann Miles, and Stars of Chess

  15-02-2018 17:00
  Performance continue at the Kennedy Center through February 18.
  
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• Last Men in Aleppo Producer and Subject Blocked From Attending Oscars

  15-02-2018 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  The director and subject of The Last Men in Aleppo, the documentary about a volunteer medical relief unit in Syria called the White Helmets, will not attend the Oscar ceremony next month. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the Syrian government refused to expedite the visa process that would allow Kareem Abeed...More »
  
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