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‘News From Heaven’
By JENNIFER HAIGH
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN
“News From Heaven” is Jennifer Haigh’s collection of stories about the lives and secrets of people in Bakerton, Pa.
Trisha Brown, a leading choreographer for more than 50 years, will present her last two dances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music this week.
“News From Heaven” is Jennifer Haigh’s collection of stories about the lives and secrets of people in Bakerton, Pa.
ASAP Yams is the behind-the-scenes — or not so behind-the-scenes — presence in the career of the expansive hip-hop artist ASAP Rocky.
Michael Mayer’s new production of “Rigoletto,” set in 1960s Las Vegas, will continue the Metropolitan Opera’s attempts to wake up its opera revivals.
It was a challenge to develop makeup for Nicholas Hoult’s sensitive zombie in “Warm Bodies,” which opens on Friday.
In “The Americans,” which has its premiere on Wednesday, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys portray K.G.B. agents posing as American suburbanites in 1980s Virginia.
A retrospective at the International Center of Photography on the photojournalist Chim shows his eye lingering on children caught in grown-up battles.
Some theater companies performing Off Broadway are using disabled actors, sometimes deliberately making a point of their disabilities.
Mr. Korab was one of a handful of commercial photographers who introduced postwar architecture to Americans.
“Fruitvale,” written and directed by the first-time filmmaker Ryan Coogler and produced by Forest Whitaker, won the film festival’s top prize.
Recent history indicates that if you win the guild’s feature award, you’ll win a directing Oscar, and your movie will be named best picture. But this year, maybe not.
Based on a true story, “Airswimming” chronicles the lives to two women institutionalized for giving birth out of wedlock in 1920s England.
In “The Truth Quotient” a billionaire hires a company to create pleasant doppelgänger robots of dead relatives with whom he had not always had good relations.
The New Juilliard Ensemble focuses on contemporary British composers in the school’s Focus! 2013 Festival of free concerts this week.
The creative forces behind the stage version of “Once” are reimagining “The Glass Menagerie” for a run at the American Repertory Theater.
Mixed martial arts champions are trying to breaking into cinema through low-budget fight films.
“The ABCs of Death” is a horror anthology film that assembles 26 shorts that each contain a demise.
Fifteen years after her comedy, “Grace Under Fire,” was canceled, Brett Butler is back on series television, working with Charlie Sheen.
“The Gatekeepers,” an Israeli documentary about the occupation of the Palestinian territories, has captured the attention of the world, but not that of its most relevant audience.
The British soul singer Jessie Ware, recently nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize, is advancing on the United States after her recent full-length album, “Devotion,” and a new EP.
“Our Man Flint,” “White Zombie” and “Murder Is My Beat” arrive on DVD.
New CDS out this week include offerings from Föllakzoid, Dawn Richard, Aruán Ortiz, and Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang.
Ms. Phillips-Matz’s examinations of two of opera’s most important composers focused on their lives, not musicology.
Everything came easily for the new-wave band. Only later did they see how lucky they were.
When Maria Mansfield conducts tours at Lincoln Center, it can get hilarious, risqué or weepy, depending on how she’s feeling the part that day.
What the 15-year-old actress Chloë Grace Moretz wore in Paris on Jan. 21 during the spring 2013 couture shows.
A musical at Hartford Stage tells the story of the tenor Roland Hayes, the first African-American vocalist to receive international acclaim.
“Attack of the Bloodsuckers!” — an exhibition at the Long Island Children’s Museum — encourages children to learn the beneficial aspects of creatures like fleas, lice and bedbugs.
“In the Company of Women: Prints by Mary Cassatt,” an exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, runs through March 3.
The Arts Exchange presents a multimedia exploration of the construction of watercraft along the Hudson River and the north and south shores of Long Island Sound.
Clarence True, the architect and developer, is known for his picturesque town houses.
As their debut album, “Texas Flood,” is rereleased, Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon recall the old days and recording the album with Stevie Ray Vaughan at Jackson Browne’s studio in 1983.
The actress performs a scene from Laura Marks’s new drama at City Center.
Ribera’s portraits, hidden up high and in the darkness of a church in Naples, Italy, are, like the city, expressions of the spiritual embedded in the profane.
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A match at a Netherlands tournament between Viswanathan Anand and Levon Aronian might have been on par with some of the best games in history.
The A/X Swiss Teams at the District 3 Winter Regional in Rye Brook, N.Y., were held last Sunday.
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