One ends with workers voting to strike. The other with a man crushed by a gorilla. “Waiting for Lefty” and “The Hairy Ape,” two rarely performed dramas by major American playwrights, both take up working-class struggle, but they imagine sharply…
Thanks to a $3.6 million donation from the Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust, the college has opened a center named after the arts and literary luminary, who taught American and Russian literature there from 1958 to 1961. The Ralph Ellison Center opened…
It turns out Winnie-the-Pooh and his fluffy friends aren't getting bear-napped from their longtime home at the New York Public Library. The British Embassy in Washington dispelled rumors Thursday about a campaign to return the collection of stuffed animals including…
The Crown has reignited its tug of war with Big Apple public-library officials over the first Winnie-the-Pooh bear — but the city’s bookworm bigs scoff the stuffed icon is now a certified New Yorker and that the royals can fuggedabout getting…
Sylvester Stallone isn’t throwing in the towel just yet — and he has a pretty relatable reason why! The Rocky star recently told fellow Hamptonites Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos on Live with Kelly and Mark that he “can’t retire” just…
The new Broadway revival of Jon Robin Baitz’s “Other Desert Cities” feels like a packaging deal from a high-powered talent agency. Take an A-list star making her Broadway debut, add a young television actor doing the same and three experienced…
The art of photography becomes revolutionary when it shows us more of a person than our prejudices know how to accommodate. Gordon Parks captures Blackness as a living abundance: poised, restless, tender, self-directed. His subjects possess the quiet authority of…
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