After a discreet tug-of-war with the playwright’s estate and Yale, the University of Texas has acquired the papers, including an “Aladdin’s cave” of unpublished material.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:01PMFour of the contributors to the Princeton and Slavery Plays project talk about the hidden histories that inspired them.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06AMThe magician Derek DelGaudio has tried to keep his work invisible on the internet. Did another professional secretly film his show?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMGeorge Orwell’s novel has led to adaptations and variations since its publication in 1949, including a coming Broadway version. Here’s an overview.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMA British adaptation of George Orwell’s classic arrives on Broadway with Tom Sturridge and Olivia Wilde, bringing contemporary political resonance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMThe 1901 script for “The Shadow of a Doubt” turned up in an archive in Texas, where scholars discovered it after noticing a cryptic reference to it in a letter.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:02PMA revival of John Guare’s play “Six Degrees of Separation” opens April 25. His enduring title concept has hopscotched through pop culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06AMBrian Doerries, the director of Theater of War, will use classic texts to explore violence, trauma and community at free events at 60 locations around the city
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03PMMr. Mac’s marathon “24-Decade History of Popular Music” was praised as “a vast, immersive, subversive, audacious and outrageous experience.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMHundreds of manuscripts and letters held by Hamilton descendants for 200 years — some of them previously unknown — were sold at auction on Wednesday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMBefore Sotheby’s sells a long-held family trove of Alexander Hamilton’s documents, the public is invited to take a look.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMAfter contentious contract talks, the Actors’ Equity Association and the Off-Broadway League have reached an agreement to raise pay for actors and stage managers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMA trove of letters and other material held for 200 years by descendants of Alexander Hamilton will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in January.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMPaul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright and Ashanti performed in “Hercules in Brooklyn,” a drama by Outside the Wire, which uses ancient texts to look at modern problems.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMThe Oregon Shakespeare Festival has challenged playwrights to translate Shakespeare into modern English, while hewing to the rule “Do no harm.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:28PMUnder her direction, the Wooster Group has created what the prize announcement called “startlingly innovative, collagelike works.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02AMAfter digging deep into their storage rooms, four institutions are showing off what they’ve got related to the country’s new favorite founder.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PMOver the July 4 weekend the New-York Historical Society will kick off its "Summer of Hamilton."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:20PMA family descendant of the man who decreed that blacks could not be citizens has written a play exploring that reviled moment in history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:22AMThe long-missing manuscript of a Federalist Paper written by John Jay has been found at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:11PMTheater lovers commemorated the loss of Shakespeare in 1916 too, and long before that.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:49PM“I came of age as a feminist and an artist at Barnard,” Ms. Shange said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PMScholars are debating whether “Hamilton” over-glorifies the man while glossing over less attractive aspects of his politics.
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