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Shay Youngblood, Influential Black Author and Playwright, Dies at 64
She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of…
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Leslye Headland’s ‘Cult of Love’ to Open on Broadway in the Fall
The play will be produced by Second Stage, which is also planning an Off Broadway production of a two-character drama…
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How Cornhole Went Pro
The best part about watching professional cornhole on TV may be listening to it. As aural A.S.M.R. goes, it ranks…
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Major League Baseball Came to Birmingham. Then Willie Mays Died.
Baseball hopes a celebration of its past in the home of one of its legends will attract more African American…
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Willie Mays, ‘Poetry on the Diamond’
Readers pay tribute to the beloved Giants great, who died on Tuesday.
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Red Carpet Looks From the 77th Annual Tony Awards
Broadway’s biggest stars made their grand entrance.
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5 Ways This Year’s Tony Awards Reveal That Theater Is Changing
As Broadway prepares to celebrate the best of the season, our theater reporter explores what the nominations tell us about…
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The N.B.A. Sees Its Future in Africa
The league has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to cultivate an immense potential fan base on the continent and…
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43 Tony Nominees and the Shows That Shaped Them
‘Purlie Victorious’ Kara Young “My mime teacher had a double-jointed hand, and she taught me this skit about a dying…
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Jessica Lange and Paula Vogel on Breaking, and Keeping, the Family Contract
In the Tony-nominated “Mother Play,” the writer conjures warm memories and thorny ones, not to judge her mother, but to…