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Review: ‘White Rose: The Musical’ ‘Not Only Deserves to be Heard, But It Deserves to be Sung and Sung Loudly’ at Theatre Row
Sophie Scholl. Hans Scholl. Christoph Probst. Karl Huber.
The names of those three students and one professor – anti-National Socialist political activists all – have haunted me since the days when I was a student at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
You see, I started each and every day by waking up in my apartment in the Studentenstadt-Freiman, which was located on Christoph-Probst-Straße. I took the U-3 or U-6 or drove to the …
Coronavirus Daily News Brief – Feb. 4: Decrease in Isolation Period Will Lead to More Long Covid Cases, Jail for Women in Covid Room Fraud
Good day. This is Jonathan Spira, director of research at the Center for Long Covid Research, reporting. Here now the news of the pandemic from across the globe on the 1,425th day of the pandemic.
IN MEMORIAM
Jewish Boy Who Became Nazi Mascot Dies of Covid
The story of Alex Kurzem is so remarkable that, when I first heard about it, I was not sure how plausible it was. At that time, however, …
Theater Review: ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ at New York City Center Features ‘The Perfect Fred’
A princess, as we are told in the high-spirited revival of “Once Upon a Mattress,” which opened last week at New York City Center starring Sutton Foster as part of its Encores program, should be “a delicate thing, delicate and dainty as a dragonfly’s wing.”
Sutton Foster is – as is the comedienne who originated the role of Princess Winifred the Woebegone, Carol Burnett – many things, but delicate she is …
Groundhog Day 2024 Report: Punxsutawney Phil, Staten Island Chuck and Friends All Agree It Will Be An Early Spring
With pineapples pummeling the West Coast and a never-ending pandemic, Punxsutawney Phil, the prodigious forecaster of Pennsylvania, failed to see his shadow early Tuesday, Groundhog Day 2024, predicting there will be an early spring, and his counterpart in New York City, Staten Island Chuck, experienced the same.
This year is Phil’s 138th year as a forecaster and it’s also the tenth anniversary since then-New York Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped Chuck …
Felled by Ferragamo, Disgraced Expelled Congressman George Santos Now Seeks Career in River City as Pool Player
Georgie Porgie sat on a wall
Georgie Porgie had a great fall
All the queens’ horses and all the queens’ men
Couldn’t screw Georgie together again
In the end, it was two names – Hermès and Ferragamo – that led to the undoing of George Santos, assuming that’s his real name.
On Friday, Santos was just the sixth congressman expelled from the House of Representatives and, perhaps …
Briefly Noted: ‘Dracula – A Comedy of Terrors’ at New World Stages – Theater Review
There’s a lot you may not know about Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire, Count Dracula. Did he suck blood and kill people? Or did he simply blank (using “Match Game” parlance) his way through life thanks to his pumped-up body and charm that no human was immune to.
Much of what we know is, of course, from Bram Stoker’s epistolary novel, Dracula, told through letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings. A solicitor, …
Manhattan Theatre Club to Stream Final Week of ‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’
For those who can’t make it to Broadway, the Manhattan Theatre Club will bring Broadway to people’s living rooms this month. “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” will be available via livestream from the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre for its final week of performances.
The new Jocelyn Bioh play had its world premiere at the theater on October 3 of this year and is currently playing to a sold-out crowd. It was the …