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 Halley Feiffer's Indie Success on Stage and Screen
By Carla Pisarro
July 7, 2008 10:00 pm EDT
Actress Halley Feiffer left her audition for the Second Stage Theatre's revival of Richard Nelson's play "Some Americans Abroad," currently in previews and opening July 24, convinced she had blown it. "I said to the director, 'I don't really know how…
Alan Cumming's Glammed-Out Demi-God 10:01 pm EDT
Collective: Unconscious Forced To Close
Broadway Producers, Actors Reach Labor Agreement
Lincoln Center Festival Lights Up
Above and Beyond a Three-Ringed Affair
India.Arie Heads to Broadway
Bill T. Jones To Direct Fela Kuti Musical
Toil and Trouble in the Tobacco Warehouse
Starting Over on the American Stage
 Finding Movement Across the Globe
By MARY STAUB
July 7, 2008 9:36 pm EDT
DURHAM, N.C. — It may be called the American Dance Festival, but it is no longer strictly an American affair. In its first incarnation in 1934, more than 100 students flocked to the festival school to learn about a uniquely American art form known as…
Spanning the Pilobolus Spectrum
ABT's 'Merry Widow': A Ballerina's Holiday
At ADF's Ark Dance Studio, Not Your Average Student Dance
American Dance Festival Preps the Next Generation
Dancers' Choice, Audience's Loss
The Boon of 'La Bayadère'
Around the World with Nicholas Leichter
Woetzel Waves Goodbye
'The Sleeping Beauty,' Served Straight Up
 The Socratic Method
By S. JAMES SNYDER
July 7, 2008
In Manhattan, most outdoor summer movie events are about getting away from the congested streets and the crowded subways, if only for a few hours. But in Queens, the organizers of one outdoor movie series approach the endeavor not as a fleeting…
New Production Company To Focus on Values 9:58 pm EDT
De Niro Weighs In on Possible Strike 9:59 pm EDT
'Red Cliff' Investors Cover Costs
'Very Young Girls': New York's Children Left Behind 9:54 pm EDT
'The Wackness': High Times, Summer in the City
Afro on the Outside, Punk on the Inside
'Gonzo': Light Sketches of a Heavy Personality
William Holden's Unscripted Fall From Grace
They Wouldn't Believe It, Anyway
 Painting for Eternity: Pietre Dure at the Met
By JAMES GARDNER
July 3, 2008
There is nothing quite like those two little words, "decorative arts," to send all but the most committed museumgoers heading for the exit. Unless the commodity in question is jewelry whose knockoffs can be sold in the museum store, any attempt to…
America's Birth Papers at the NYPL
Phillip Pearlstein, Objectifying the Nude
Bronx Museum Leads Borough's Renaissance 9:57 pm EDT
Vermeer's Afternoon Delights 10:00 pm EDT
Nature Painted With Force
Cut-and-Paste, Then and Now
'Retrospective': Been There, Sold That
Strike Looms at La Scala
Ten Works Set Records at Sotheby's Contemporary Auctions
Out of the Chrysalis: Poppy Adams's 'The Sister'
By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
July 7, 2008
Memory makes unreliable witnesses of us all, but knowing that usually doesn't change the way we operate. What are we to trust as we move through the world if not our firsthand perceptions, so intrinsic to the cartography of our lives? If our own…
Thomas Jefferson, Gentleman Scholar
Stand-Up Philosophy: 'Stop Me If You've Heard This'
Marking Our Territory: 'Conquest' by David Day
Go Purple, Young Man: Rick Bass's 'Why We Came West'
Reconsiderations: Richard Yates's 'Revolutionary Road'
Snake-Bitten, Twice Shy: Jamie James's 'The Snake Charmer'
The Crime Scene: A Thrill a Minute
Forging a Conservative Future: 'Grand New Party'
Scenes From a Mall: Catherine O'Flynn's 'What Was Lost'
'Tis the Season for Big Bands
By WILL FRIEDWALD
July 3, 2008
Many people think of "big-band jazz" as if it were a style unto itself, like Dixieland or bebop. The truth is that the term "big band" connotes an instrumental format, employed in a wide variety of styles. Even though big bands are associated most…
On the Right Track With 'Die Soldaten' 9:30 pm EDT
Marsalis & Nelson Meet in a Bluesy Middle 9:34 pm EDT
A Souvenir From Vladimir Horowitz
The Formal and the Popular
Montebello Joins Met Concert Series
Bayreuth To Stream 'Meistersinger' Live Online
Ernestine Anderson Avoids Foreclose
Sowing the Seeds of Discontent
Collegiate Chorale Sets Tour of Israel
 Back to the Spotlight
By ERICA ORDEN, Staff Reporter of the Sun
July 2, 2008
If there is one thing about which the acquaintances of painter Chuck Connelly can agree, it is that Mr. Connelly is his own worst enemy. A successful and prolific artist in the 1980s, Mr. Connelly had a hotshot dealer, Annina Nosei. He had…
Obama Ties Comedians' Tongues, Soccer Takes Manhattan
NBC Dramatically Ups Online Olympics Coverage
Television Ponders Our Children's Children
Yes, But Why Isn't the Doctor Hot?
Take the Money and Make More
Brokaw To Helm 'Meet the Press' Through Election
Takei To Wed Longtime Partner
Turner Classic Movies Rescues Raoul Walsh
'Weeds': Growing Out of Control
Movies in Brief: 'Diminished Capacity'
By MARTIN TSAI
July 3, 2008
Ferris Bueller may be grown up, but he's still a Cubs fan. "Diminished Capacity," a new film opening Friday and starring Matthew Broderick, is as much a story about dementia as it is about Chicago Cubs mania. Mr. Broderick plays Cooper, who loses his…
Let's Go Out This Weekend
Following the Music to Brooklyn
NYCB's Sara Mearns Named Principal Dancer
Hungarian Festival in the Works for 2009
Lincoln Center's Face-lift
Arguing the World: Standpoint, A New British Periodical
Let's Go Out This Weekend
ARTnews Names Top 200 Collectors
Water, Water Everywhere: Olafur Eliasson & the East River
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